Word: lachish
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...plan, tried first in the Lachish and Adullam areas along the Jordan border south of Jerusalem, is to create regional communities, clusters of small villages set up radially round a rural center where schools, health clinics, assembly rooms and tractor garages are concentrated. Each village has 50 to 60 families-all Hungarians, all Iranians or all Poles. But the children all go to the same school in the rural center. All villagers are treated at the same clinic, attend the same movie, sit in the same...
Assassinated. James Leslie Starkey, 50, famed British archeologist; near Jerusalem. Driving in from his excavations at Lachish, he was halted by a band of Arabs, dragged from his car, shot...
...Marston is spending much of his bicycle fortune for archeological research because he believes the world is a little better off every time his diggers confirm some scrap of Biblical history. Marston-financed is the expedition of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum of London, now probing the site of ancient Lachish, southwest of Jerusalem. Last month Expedition Leader J. L. Starkey & staff turned up twelve fragments of pottery bearing the name, written in ink, of many a notable figure of the decadent period from Solomon's first temple in 970 B. C. to the Babylonian conquest...
Meantime further finds were being made at Lachish which the expedition members, with Sir Charles off attending to other matters, did not feel like withholding. One was a seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
...more than a year an expedition headed by Dr. J. L. Starkey of Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, London, has been working at Tel ad-Duwair, southwest of Jerusalem. Anciently called Lachish, this site was a fortress in the Kingdom of Judah. Nebuchadnezzar stormed it when he invaded Palestine. Earlier, King Sennacherib of Assyria stopped there before he swept down like the wolf on the fold and before the Lord, through Isaiah, said: "I will send a blast upon him" and killed his 185,000 troops (II Kings, 19: 7, 35). What Dr. Starkey found at Lachish last week were twelve...