Word: graven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city of less religious importance for Orthodox Jews, Rose threatened that unless the sculpture goes to Jerusalem as planned, he will cut off all of his gifts to Israel. But some Talmudic scholars sided with Rose, quoted Leviticus...