1956-12-08 — Page 8

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UNSENTIMENTAL

WHY PHARAOH GAVE UP ABRAHAM'S WIFE

DEAD SEA SCROLL THROWS NEW LIGHT ON BIBLE STORIES

By ARYE WALLENSTEIN

late

Jerusalem for Saval, took her as a wife, Against the Sons of Darknes

and sought Sarah told the king that Abra- University in 1947 by the

to kul Abrahum, were required for the Hebrew ham was her brother and かく Professor E.L. Sukenik, saved his life.

Apparently to save Sarah from The other four the late awaking her. God sent a pestilential wind and struck Pharaoh and his house. The res sult was that the king could not

wife" approach 19 beautiful new

UNIQUE and graphic description uf the loveliness of Surah and lively dialogues about the suspicions of Lamech re. garding the paternity of his wife's son, Noah, are per haps the most outstanding revelations in the Dead Sea

The knot was only untangled scroll just published by two years later when the king scholars of the Hebrew learnt that Suran was Abraham's wife and retensed the woman. University in Jerusalem.

Abraham then prayed for him and the evil wind passed from the King and his household.

This is the last of the seven original scrolls, found by a bedouin shopherd in a eave nine years ago, to e deciphered and published.

The scroll was the most frugile of the reven and very difficult to unroll.

Essentially, it is a paraphrase and commentary of the Book of Genesis, Parts of it still remalo to be deciphered, but the chup ters which are extent

conce n

Lamoch, Enoch, Methuselah,

Best Preserved

Isruell archaeologists

were

scrolls - Bedah, the Habakuk Catti- mentary, the Manual of Dis- eipline, and the Genesis Apoary- phon--were purchased from the bedouts strepnerd by the Syrian Orthodox Metropollian Mur Mark's Monastery in the Athanes lus Samuel, of Saint Did City of Jerusalem. The Metro- politan who Look the

four

rolls to the United States in 1948, refused to allow American scholars to work on or to pub- lish this particular Scrol},

In 1954, the tour scrolls were bought from the Metropolitan for the State pr Iscuel for even more fascinated by another $250,000 (about £84,000). fragment of the scroll which

Here is part of the account of provides clues to the geography the curse put upon the King of the Holy Land more 2,000 years ago.

than of Egypt for taking Sarah as his Whereas, for wife, as deciphered instance, in Genesis, Abraham is shed by

and pub- conunended to look upon

Dr Nahman Avigad the and Dr Yigal Yadin, The Eng- entire kan "trom the

place is translation was made where thou art," the scroll says Mra Shulamith Schwartz,

by fius God wold him 10 go

10 took the style of the English Hazar, that is to tert of Both-el, the place where

the Bible es her model: thou now dwellest and lift up thue eyes and

Abraham and Sarah.

The two lsraeil archaeologists amat who have deciphered and pub- lished the scroll, Dr Nahman Avigad and Dr Yigal Yadin,

have, therofure, chosen for the name: "A Genesis Apocry- phon-A Scroll From The Wilderness of Judaca."

Infant Noah

look eastward and westward and southward and northward and behold all this land that I give to thee and to thy seed for over."

By Force

who

"And when the King heard the words of Hand the words

and

anci

ma.

In the Biblical account, Abra-

of his two companions, ham was told to "walk the land

for all three spoke as one man, in the length of it and in the

le desired her exceedingly and To a layment the document,

he sent at once to bring her to breadth of it" (Genesis 13), but

her which dates back to the first in the Scroll's version Abraham him and he looked upon century before Christ, looks like made his way from the Nile to a marvelled at all her lovell-

neda and the Persian Gult

took her to him to a collection of colourful, Arst-

wife the

Bought to play person accounts of storica

Many of the stories originally book of Genesis.

included in the Serell have been And Saral spoke to the King.

saying, 'He There is the story of Lamech damaged and will talke

Is my Brother,' that long talking in the first person about

tine to decipher.

Thoso now it might be well with me (that This suspicion thai the infant published are mainly the three might profi thereby). And I,

Abram Noah

was saved because is the child of the innermost and best preserved of 20 Watchers," holy ones or fallen a 22 columns

her and was not slain.

And I angels Greally disturbed, he In fact, the Scroll consists of wept, Abram, with turns to his wife, Bat-Enveh, four thin sheets, light brown in wet ping. I and with me Lot, my

brother's son. and makes her swear by "the colour, with the writing on the hen Sarat was taken from me wept that night Most High" that she will tell hair side of the site. The sheets him the whole truth. without are sewn together with tendons, by force.

I

of

grievous

Which of your players," naked. du quality to become international rs, who will be able to cum- pete with Peck and Brando?"

He said:"These are the ones Dirk Bogarde. Pater Finch, Kay Kendall, Jean Carson. Virginia McKenna, Belinda Lee, Michael Craig Tony Wright, Maureen Not all the actors and creative Swanson, And of course there's artists are happy that Mr Davis Kenneth More 1 have Jus1 should now be taking such a signed him to do seven dims for direct and personal interest in No longer are they going to

me over the next tive years" their work. have to make do with Marion There are some

Hles. She in turn vows by the the etliches being close and fine notable omis-

"That night I prayed and en- Brando and Marilyn Monroe:

"Groat Holy One" that the seed, and made diagonally. sions from this st. This is not America will

treated and begged and mid in the surprising.

the conception and the frukt are Each sheet is soon have

He has a reputation for tough-

divided Into Davis is not a man

sorrow, as my tears fell, Blessed privilege of seeing Belinda Lee, for flom,

ness and bluntness. When he his

columns by perpendicular lines Donald Sinden

art Thou, Most High God, Lord and Maurren

Lamech ruled with a sharp instrument. of all worlds, because Thou art saw the film "The Big Money,"

suspicious. Ho grinned mischievously. Swanson

For Mr John Davis, hope," he said, "the I haven't which had cost him £100,000 to

hastens to his father Methuselah These fix

between the space and beg him to seek the truth the columns. The sheets vary in ruler of all the kings of earth, Lord and Mastor of all and managing director of the Bank left Organisation, has been extend-

out anyone should have make, he decided it was "ter- included.

from Grandfather Enoch, who is length from 45 centimetres 1's lable

rible" and immediately had it ing the boundaries of Mr Rank's

all of whom Thou Judgust, Be- shelved.

"It would have been all-knowing. What Enoch had to 82 centimetres (about 18 inches hold now I cry before Thee, my trouble." empire. Determined that British

is still un- to 32 inches). The overall He looked almost benevolent. more harmful to the careefs of say to Methuselah

known, since the lower part of length of the scroll as preserved King of Egypt, because my wife Lord, against Pharaoh-Zoan, Alms should be given a fair This group," he said, "hae the

the people in i to have it

the leather sheet has been des- 13 2.83 showing in the; United States,

shown," he said. No producer or

(about 110 has been taken from mo advantage over the daddies Mr Davis has set up a distribu-

Bollywood like Clark Gable actor needs to bo told that troyed in the course of its long inches).

force, tion organisation, there. If he that they are young. The public

"D.

" can be painfully unsenti-

history. cannot get the cinemas to show don't go any

mental in taking decisions. thrill any

"Do Thou Judge him for me his time, he will buy enough from

"What do you do exactly on Clark Geble and

the mighty and let me behold cinemas and show them himself,

hand descend upon him generation

and the production alde?" I asked. They want new he says.

feces. And what new faces have

"Far 100 much," he said. "Is that your opinion? they been given by Hollywood since the war?"

your producers'?"

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"I don't know about my pro- ducers. They probably think so, too. But I think I do too much. But it's a case of necessity. The trouble with creative people is they often cannot take decisions.

he said, "that will "No."

Stult

metres

One Of Seven

to

by

But as the story of Lamech's suspicions regarding Noah's paternity is taken up on other pages, we do know that finally The most difficult problem in all his household and may no Lamech is convinced that the child borne by his wife is in deed his

of

Happy Ending

Evil Wind

unrolling the Beroil

the not this, nighi delle my wife. archaeologists say, was how to And men shall know, my Lord, treat the day, brittle leather BO that Thou art the Lord of -all that it might be

sprend

out the kings of earth," without crumbling completely. Another difficulty was to sopar- ate the Jayens which had become attached to each other by the sticky material produced during the decomposition of the leather.

"A Genesis Apocryphon

"And I went and grieved. That night the Most High God sent a pestilential wind to affilet him and all his household, a wind

Davis's decision is bold,

but characteristic. "Once we have I said: **TC you Ket your got going," he says, "I think our players known in Americe, stars will be as well-known and you'll find Hollywood trying to

There is a happy ending, too, as popular as Gregory Peck or sical them from you with offers That's what I do for them. I to another story told by the any of them. They are already of higher salaries."

Lake decisions. I say 'Yes' or ancient leather scroll-the story in the rest of the world."

the "triangle" of Sarah, We sat at 9.30 am. in

And we shall have to

He thought for a moment when Abraham and the King of Egypt, offee at 38, South Street, where compete. We are already com- I asked him if his embition was As the beatiful Sarah ar om of the seven Dead Sea that was evil. And it smote hiz he had already done two hours' pcting

with

Hollywood for to attain the kind of postiion Sirrived in Egypt with her hus- scrolls described by many and all his house, and he could work. His desk was clear. There properties. We have just spent Alexander Korda used to have, band, so the story goes, cle was scholars as "the greatest Biblical not come near her nor did he were bowls of flowers in the £50,000 on a book. We are go- Then he replied: "My ambition seen by the princes of that treasure in the world." Three know her and he was with her Toom, and half a dozen framed ing to make more ambitious is to do a lot less than I have country, and reporte of her love of the seven scrolls Isalah, two years. And at the end of photographs of family groups films. We are going to make “A to do now."

liness reached the king, the Thanksgiving Scroll and years, the plagues and Pharaoh-Zoan. The king sent the War of the Sons of Light amictions became grievous and

his own family.

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strong in him and in all his house. And he sent and called for all the wise men of Egypt and all the wizards and all the physicians of Egypt, if perchance they might heal him from that pestilence, him and his chojaro, And, all the physicians and wizards and wise men could not rise up to heal him; for ( the wind emote them all and they fled.

"Then came, to me H and besought me to come and to pray for tho king and to lay

And

my hands upon him that: might live for. wald unto him, Abegan my uncle, cannot pray for

while Sarul, his w

ham Go now, and tell the King

to work away his wife to her disband, and he will preg Alm-and he will" diye