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...also as an indoctrination and training institution for its recruits who enter as unskilled immigrants from perhaps Yemen or Hungary, emerge as nationally conscious Israeli citizens trained for a trade. The army's top officers have been notably wide-ranging in their interests; one chief of staff, Yigael Yadin, left his job to study archaeology at Oxford, is now Israel's chief expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Dayan's successor, 38-year-old Major General Haim Laskov, recently took a three-year leave for the study of political economy and philosophy...
...history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully for the TV camera. The one-hour show benefited from a rare bit of casting: the role of the late Dr. Sukenik was played with quiet earnestness by his son, Israeli stage and film actor, Yoseph Yadin...
...Many Israelis have shed their European names in favor of new Hebrew ones. Yadin means "He will judge...
...World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem last week, General Yadin advanced a new theory relating the scrolls to Christianity. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, he suggested, was addressed to converted members of the Dead Sea sect, the Essenes. Scholars have long wondered who the "Hebrews" of the epistle were, said Yadin. The answer is to be found in the similarities between the theology of the people Paul was addressing (as it can be deduced from Paul's arguments) and the known theology of the Dead Sea sect. The Essenes believed in the ascendancy of the priestly...
Moreover, said Yadin, the epistle is full of quotations and references to Pentateuch material, mainly in connection with the sojourn in the wilderness and the tabernacle-matters especially dear to the Essenes. For "when we review all the material in the Dead Sea scrolls literature, we cannot help feeling that the Dead Sea sect organized itself in an exact as possible replica of the life of the tribes of Israel in the wilderness . . . considered the 'period of Belial' similar to the 40 years' wandering, and hoped and believed that in the very near future they would...