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20 June 1972, Sang, Philip D., Nearprint Box—Biographies. For his financial support and
service to the College, HUC-JIR awarded Sang a doctor of humane letters, honoris causa, in
1973. A biography can be found in Clyde C. Walton, “Philip David Sang, 1902–1975,” Journal
of the Illinois State Historical Society 68, no.5 (1975): 429–434.
307Sang is referred to as chairman in several of the reports to the committee preserved in MS
20/G-1/ Reports of the Libraries, 1944–1991.
308Glueck to Sang, 14 May 1969, MS 20/A1a-154/1, S, General. In June, Harman wrote to
Glueck explaining that the $10,000 would cover the entire cost of making the two thousand
negatives of the scrolls and fragments, duplicate copies of the negatives and several sets of
positives. As such, HUC-JIR was funding the entire project. Harman to Glueck, 18 June 1969,
MS 20/A1a-151/3, H, General.
309Glueck to Harman, 15 May 1969, Administrative File: Dead Sea Scrolls, Klau Library.
310Glueck to Sang, 28 April 1969, MS 20/A1a-154/1, S, General.
311Glueck to Sang, 14 May 1969, MS 20/A1a-154/1, S, General.
312Glueck to Sang, 14 May 1969, MS 20/A1a-154/1, S, General.
313The records of the purchase are not preserved, but Glueck discusses it and the assessment of
the vessel when it reached the Los Angeles campus of HUC-JIR in 1969. Glueck to Berkowitz,
10 July 1969, MS 20/K2-2/1969 July. The pot and lid are now on exhibit in the Cincinnati
branch of the Skirball Museum on the HUC-JIR campus. Accession number: 1982 49.1A+B/
A0869A+B. A photograph of the vessel accompanies Jerry Stein, “Hebrew Union’s Little Gem:
Museum a Treasury of Jewish Art,” The Cincinnati Post (5 February 1996): 1B.
314Only a few days after writing Glueck with the details of the proposed scroll transaction,
Harman wrote to Harold P. Manson of the American Friends of Hebrew University (copying
Glueck and HUC-JIR Jerusalem dean Ezra Spicehandler) for help in arranging housing for
between twenty-six and forty HUC-JIR students. Harman to Manson, 17 April 1969, MS 20/
A1a-151/3, H, General. This correspondence might be interpreted as encouraging Glueck to
find the funds for the work on the scrolls.
315Presumably Glueck is referring to “writing tables.” These items were found in what Roland
de Vaux identified as the “scriptorium” at the settlement of Qumran; as early as 1958, their
description as “writing tables” for scribes copying scrolls was challenged. See inter alia, Bruce M.
Metzger, “The Furniture in the Scriptorium at Qumran,” Revue de Qumran 1, no. 4 (1958–1959):
509–515. The problem of identifying these items and explaining their use remains. See Jodi
Magness, The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans,
2003), 60–61.
316Glueck’s diary entry for 21 June 1967. See Nelson Glueck, Dateline: Jerusalem (Cincinnati:
HUC Press, 1968), 26–27. William G. Dever was then the executive officer of the HUC-JIR
Biblical Archaeology School and was preparing to begin the excavation at Gezer. He provides
a first-hand description of the events in Jerusalem in “Archaeology and the Six Day War,” BA
30, no. 3 (1967): 73, 102–107. Glueck was in Jerusalem from 12 June to 27 August 1967. The
topic of the scrolls came up frequently during the visit, first regarding the exploration and
repair of the Rockefeller Museum. During the visit Glueck met with Israeli Supreme Court
justice Haim Cohn, who was judging the case of a journalist who had been denied a permit
to excavate at Qumran (Dateline: Jerusalem, 65). Since the discovery of the scrolls there had
been rumors of an eighth intact scroll circulating among scholars and collectors. On 23 June
Glueck visited with Kando, the antiquities dealer who had helped arrange the original sale
of scrolls to Athanasius Samuel. During the visit Glueck was informed that some of Kando’s
merchandise—the rumored scroll, Glueck supposed—had been confiscated by Israeli authorities
(Dateline: Jerusalem, 29–30). In the last part of the diary, on 22 August 1967, Glueck noted,
“One of my favorite diversions since coming here this June has been to pursue the story of the
missing Dead Sea Scroll.” (Dateline: Jerusalem, 116). What follows the statement is five pages
of Glueck recounting his discussions about the scroll with Kando and his advice to the dealer
that he approach the Israelis for compensation as provided for in the Israeli antiquities law.
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