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e remembered that Sanders was the
first graduate student to complete a
doctorate at HUC-JIR in Cincinnati
in 1954, during Zafren’s first years
following his appointment as librarian
of the Cincinnati Klau Library
in 1950. Sanders’s request created
no bad blood, and he spoke at the
College several times subsequently. 361
In the end, however, new positives
were made from the negatives at the
Shrine of the Book between 1984
and 1986, and these were deposited
at the Ancient Biblical Manuscript
Center. 362 The communication from Sanders did raise some concerns for
HUC-JIR. It had been a decade since the original agreement was made. The
College still had not received the positive prints or the complete inventory list
that they had, in essence, paid for. Further, they still had not been able to use
the materials for publicity purposes. Finally, the deposition of another copy
of the negatives in the United States meant that the six-month head-start on
scholarship and exhibition promised to Glueck was at risk. 363
Broshi and Zafren met in Jerusalem in late May 1980. 364 Although
Gottschalk had encouraged Zafren to use the meeting “to break this open and
free the issue,” 365 the meeting did not achieve this goal. The men agreed that a
new inventory list would be supplied and that inquiries would be made as to
the cost of producing prints from the negatives. 366 By the end of June Broshi
informed Zafren that Elisha Qimron 367 was at work on the new inventory lists,
with Bechtel supplying the funds for the project. It was expected that the cost
of producing the prints from 2,500 total negatives would amount to between
$1,850 for 13x18cm contacts and $3,700 for 18x24cm prints. 368 HUC-JIR did
not want to supply the funds for images that could not be used, particularly
since the original $10,000 contribution was supposed to guarantee copies for
them. However, at least in their discussions, the College representatives hoped
that if they put forward the funds for positives, Broshi might be able to arrange
more access to the materials. 369 By that point, though, Gottschalk was becoming
more troubled by the restrictions and encouraged Zafren to approach Biran in
Jerusalem to work on the College’s behalf to get more access. 370 Biran joined
HUC-JIR in 1974 after retiring from his position as director of the Department
of Antiquities of the State of Israel (since September 1989, the Israel Antiquities
Authority, or IAA), where he had served from 1961 until 1974. Prior to his
appointment to the Department of Antiquities he had served as the Israeli consul
in Los Angeles, the military governor of Jerusalem, and liaison between the
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James A. Sanders, Nelson Glueck, and
G. Ernest Wright, New York, 7 June 1970
(Courtesy American Jewish Archives)