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NOTES & NEWS Secret Dead Sea Scrolls Now Published When the Romans destroyed the Temple 1,900 years ago, the Jewish world convulsed and then recovered. Its adaptation to the loss of the Temple—its...

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...Fein, who founded moment in 1975 and later founded Mazon, a Jewish Response to Hunger, grew up in Baltimore, where he attended Baltimore Hebrew College during high school...
...To disseminate and exchange information among all scholars who wish to work on the newly released texts, BAS president Hershel Shanks announced the establishment of an Institute for Dead Sea Scroll Studies...
...For scholars, these fragments are part of an incomplete, immensely difficult puzzle to be pieced together and deciphered...
...The Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS), publisher of the Biblical Archaeology Review that for six years has spearheaded the effort to release the scrolls to all scholars and to speed the slow rate of publication, prepared these two volumes from photographs received from an undisclosed source...
...The Dead Sea Scrolls, found 40 and more years ago hidden in caves in the Judean desert, are still today the chief and almost only voice that speaks to us directly from that tumultuous time before the destruction of the Temple...
...Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati presented Fein with a Doctor of Humane Letters and Baltimore Hebrew University presented him with a Doctor of Hebrew Letters...
...Cards for the Perplexed Greeting card giants Hallmark and RPP (Recycled Paper Products) have responded to the demographic bulge of interfaith marriages by offering a line of "crossover" cards for Christmas/ Chanukah...
...The two-volume set is available from the Biblical Archaeology Society, 3000 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C...
...This blessed season belongs to all faiths" is the message on Hallmark's greeting featuring two houses with Christmas decorations and a third displaying Chanukah symbols...
...Fein, Former moment Editor, Recognized for his Contributions to Jewish Life Former moment editor Leonard Fein was recently awarded two honorary doctorates...
...Hallmark's public affairs representative Renee Hershey says Hallmark this year has about 3,000 Christmas designs, 125 Chanukah designs and four interfaith designs—double last year's two...
...On November 19,1991, the publication of photographs of all the unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls ended a 40-year monopoly by the original team of scholars and their hand-chosen partners...
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...RPP's product manager Alfred Hamilton says RPP sells 666 Christmas designs, 61 Chanukah designs, and 11 crossover cards linking Christmas and Chanukah...
...its message: "Have a splendid whatever...
...Yet, after four decades, half of the 800 texts remain unpublished, controlled by a small group of scholars that has prevented access by other scholars...
...RPP takes an irreverent approach, depicting Santa Claus and a rabbi holding a menorah...
...She calls the cards "a vibrant and expressive form of popular Jewish culture that reflects certain realities of the present-day Jewish community in America...
...The popularity of hybrid combination cards is related to trends of American Jewish assimilation and acculturation, particularly the rising number of interfaith couples and their families, relatives, friends, neighbors and coworkers," suggests folklore collector Shulamith Z. Berger, author of a study on greeting cards and Jewish-gentile relations...
...Individually, they sell better than any strictly Chanukah or strictly Christmas card...
...Also out of this Jewish ferment came the beginnings of Christianity...
...Its adaptation to the loss of the Temple—its heart and focus—led to the Judaism we know today, that of rabbis and synagogues and customs attached to the home...
...The 1,787 plates contain thousands of fragments of texts—some with hardly more than one or two letters, others with several lines of Hebrew or Aramaic texts...
...Some are clear and readable, others are illegible...
...Although neither company would give sales figures, Hamilton says, "Crossover designs tend to be very strong sellers, in part because so few designs are available...

Vol. 16 • December 1991 • No. 6


 
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