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Samuel Sandmel, “Parallelomania,” 299. Rivkin wrote, “[A] principle that affirms that since
unknown can only be made known by the known, the first order of scholarly business is
to compare the unknown with the known.” Unpublished intellectual history of Solomon
Zeitlin, 130.
233Phone conversation with Ellis Rivkin, 3 June 2008. James Sanders, who studied with Rivkin
in the early 1950s, recalled that Rivkin “never mentioned the Scrolls except to ridicule them
as of any importance to Ancient Judaism. It was to me rather irritating that he wouldn’t even
engage them in any way.” Email correspondence from James Sanders, 28 August 2008.
234See “Students of Philology,” The New York Times (28 December 1894): 10; “Society of Biblical
Literature,” The New York Times (15 June 1895): 9; and, “Society Split Over Babylonian Tablets,”
The New York Times (27 November 1910): 5.
235See “Experts Dispute Age of Bible Documents,” The New York Times (30 December 1949):
4; “Theologian Warns of Pressure Groups,” The New York Times (29 December 1955): 26;
“Scholars Dispute Scrolls’ Validity,” The New York Times (28 December 1956): 14; Farnsworthe
Fowle, “Recent Discoveries Of Biblical Texts Hailed by Scholars,” The New York Times (30
December 1958): 37; John Wicklein, “Scrolls Doubted as Link to Jesus,” The New York Times
(31 December 1961): 17; and, Peter Steinfels, “Dead Sea Scrolls Free of Last Curb,” The New
York Times (27 November 1991): A22.
236Orlinsky did not speak on the Dead Sea Scrolls but gave a paper titled, “Diviner vs. Prophet
in Ancient Israel.” See “Proceedings, December 29–31, 1958,” JBL 78, no.1 (1959): iv.
237Glueck to Albright, 4 November 1968, MS 20/A1a-156/3, Albright, Wm.
238Nelson Glueck, “New Light on the Dim Past,” The New York Times (20 November 1955):
BR54–BR55.
239Ibid., BR54.
240Ibid., BR55.
241 “Unearthing the Past: A Decade of Discoveries,” Time Magazine (13 December 1963): 50–60.
Quote on 60.
242Glueck, “New Light,” BR54.
243Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev (New York: Farrar, Straus, and
Cudahy, 1959), 31.
244Nelson Glueck, “Out of Yesterday, A Symbol for Today,” The New York Times (11 May
1958): BR6.
245Brown and Kutler, Nelson Glueck, 130–131.
246Samuel Johnson Woolf, “To Teach ‘Not Science, but Eternal Laws,’” The New York Times
(7 March 1948): SM15.
247Orlinsky to Sonne, 21 December 1955, MS 513/2343h/Correspondence, 1955; and Orlinsky
to Blank, Lewy, and Sandmel, 27 January 1956; MS 513/2343h/Correspondence, 1956. The
list is preserved in MS 20/Aia-53/4, O, General.
248Sonne was pushed into retirement at the end of the 1955–1956 school year, which may
explain his decision not to participate in organizing a conference for 1957. It is also plausible
that Sonne preferred not to work with Orlinsky in matters relating to the scrolls in light of
their previous relationship.
249Press release, “Reform Rabbinic School Schedules International Scholarly Symposium on
Dead Sea Scrolls,” 10 November 1955, MS 20/A1a-45/3, O, General.
250Ibid. 251Orlinsky to Blank, Lewy, and Sandmel, 27 January 1956; MS 513/2343h/Correspondence,
1956.
252Sonne to Orlinsky, 2 February 1956, MS 513/2343h/Correspondence, 1956.
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