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Nelson Glueck - Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Hardcover)
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Nelson Glueck - Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (Hardcover)
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Nelson Glueck was born in 1900 to a struggling immigrant Jewish
family in Cincinnati. By 1950, he had excavated remains of the
civilization of the ancient Nabataeans in Transjordan, described a
biblical copper-mining industry at the shore of the Red Sea, and
shown how the Negev could support a large population if proper
irrigation techniques were used. A personal friend of David
Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban, Golda Meir, Henrietta Szold, and Judah
Magnes, among other notables worldwide, this pioneer in the
burgeoning field of biblical archaeology was known affectionately
in the nascent state of Israel as "Ha-Professor" (the Professor).
By 1950, Glueck was also well into his long tenure (1947-1971) as
president of Hebrew Union College, the institution that had
ordained him as a Reform rabbi in 1923 and supported his further
studies toward the doctorate he earned in 1927 at the University of
Jena in Germany. As president, Glueck oversaw the merger of HUC
with the Jewish Institute of Religion. He expanded the
Cincinnati-based institution to include schools in New York, Los
Angeles, and Jerusalem. He encouraged the creation of the Schools
of Jewish Communal Service and Jewish Education in California. And
he founded and nurtured the School of Biblical and Archaeological
Studies in Jerusalem, which now bears his name. Jonathan Brown and
Laurence Kutler describe and document Nelson Glueck's many
achievements and also record some of the fascinating adventures of
this extraordinary charismatic man whose life straddled two
distinct Jewish worlds.
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