Word: gelb
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George Rathjens, chairman-elect of the Council for a Lisable World: Robert Hass, deputy for European Affairs in the State Department, and Leslie Gelb. New York Times National Security Correspondent and former State Department official in the Carter Administration, also addressed the delegates, most whom were pro-freeze...
...reigning cuneiform expert at the University of Chicago, Ignace J. Gelb, who classifies the Eblaite tongue as most akin to the Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further...
...professor of Public Policy and Government, may become the next chairman of the Carnegie Institution's panel on "U.S. Security and the Future of Arms Control." Nye, one of about 25 members of the Democraticoriented group, said this week he had explored the possibility with current chairman Leslie Gelb, who is stepping down to rejoin the New York Times. Nye is in Washington today for an arms control conference sponsored by the Aspen Institute...