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...story, reported one of its translators, Soldier-Scholar Yigael Yadin of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, was written on goatskin in Aramaic in "a very pleasant hand." It tells how Noah's father Lamech (son of Methuselah) was married to his own sister-a custom necessitated in earliest times by the shortage of women. Lamech, according to the scroll, began to suspect that Baby Noah was not his own child-apparently with good reason. At birth the child "rose up in the hands of the midwife and conversed with the Lord of Righteousness." His body was "white as snow...
...Sarah, the wife of Abraham, as "very fair," then plunges on in its narrative. With this tempting morsel, readers have been left for centuries to wonder at the beauty that turned the head of the Pharaoh of Egypt. Last week, with scholarly remoteness from war, Jerusalem's Dr. Yigael Vadin published his latest Dead Sea Scroll translation-part of a document earlier identified as an apocryphal Book of Genesis (TIME, Feb. 20). The scroll did justice to Sarah's beauty with an ecstatic, head-to-toe description of her charms...
...years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between 25 and 30"), and some scholars look on it as a historical account of a real war; e.g., General Yigael Yadin of Israel finds in it various similarities with Roman fighting practices. But despite the military overtones, the document's elaborate and elusive reading is almost certainly an allegory of the struggle of good against evil...
...such guideposts to be erected in Israel, linking the busy present to the Old Testament past. Thus they will give modern Israelis a morale-boosting sense of their ancient glories. Still more important, perhaps, they will make tourism more rewarding for tourists-and tourists more rewarding for Israel. General Yigael Yadin, archaeologist and war hero who advises the government on historical matters, spelled it out for reporters. "Put yourself in the shoes of a person who was weaned on Bible stories. He dreams of visiting the places he has heard about since childhood. When he gets to Israel . . . nobody seems...
...deciphering will take months, but, said Archeologist Yigael Yadin: "We hope that by summer the world will know just exactly how beautiful Sarah...