Word: glueck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard, who wrote this week's cover story on Nelson Glueck, considers himself something of an amateur Biblical scholar and regards the Bible as "an extraordinary record of ancient history as well as beautiful literature." This has long been Archaeologist Glueck's thesis, and his Biblical scholarship has often helped him locate sites in the Holy Land. One memento from Glueck that Leonard treasures is a piece of slag from King Solomon's copper mines, which Glueck rediscovered...
Although the cover story treats primarily of Glueck's explorations in the Holy Land, there are eight color pages of diggings in the Middle East, including Nemrud Dagh, Aphrodisias, Ephesus and Gordion. Nancy Chase, chief of researchers in the World section, went along on the photographic trip, out of her own fascination with the subject. On a first journey to the Middle East nine years ago, Miss Chase first got interested, and since then she has spent four summers on archaeological expeditions run by the Universities of Toronto and Colorado and the Museum of New Mexico. Her recent trip...
Eisendrath quickly came under attack from Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a leader of the Reform Jewish academic community. In a closed-door session of the board of trustees, Glueck delivered a scathing, ten-minute rebuttal accusing Eisendrath of trading off a re-examination of Jesus in return for the Vatican Council's reassessment of antiSemitism. Eisendrath's remarks, he said, made it seem "as if American Reform Judaism were prepared to put Jesus in a central role as a great rabbinical leader...
...Gluecks presented the meeting, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, with the results of field tests designed to test the validity of Mr. and Mrs. Glueck's "Social Prediction Table...
...Glueck, saying that "in delinquency one is dealing not with destiny but with destination, and that destination can hopefully be altered," emphasized that delinquency "can no longer be left to the untutored and painless efforts of modern parents...