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Word: federmann (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find it: "And between the passages . . . there was a sharp rock on the one side, and a sharp rock on the other side . . . the forefront of the one was situate northward over against Michmash. and the other southward over against Gibeah." A few years ago Israeli Businessman Xiel Federmann began to brood over the account of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah ("and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace"), guessed such conflagrations might indicate underground gas-and underground gas meant oil. He was right. In 1953 Israel's first oil well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Biblical Detective Story | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

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