Eleazar Sukenik

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Eleazar Sukenik
Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Eleazar Lipa Sukenik (12 August 1889 in

Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is best known for helping establish the Department of Archaeology at the Hebrew University and being one of the first academics to recognise the age and importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls. He also oversaw the uncovering of the Third Wall of ancient Jerusalem. He also was the director of the Museum of Jewish Antiquities at the Hebrew University.[1]

Personal life

Sukenik was born on August 12, 1889, in the town of Belostok,

Dropsie College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[2]

He served in the British army in World War I in the 40th Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, which became known as the Jewish Legion.[citation needed]

He was the father of General, politician and archaeologist

1948 Arab-Israeli War.[4]

Eleazar Sukenik was the brother of a pharmacist who lived in the United States, who in the 1950s was convicted for selling amphetamines without prescriptions and whose son, Herbert Sukenik, was a physicist who lived the second half of his life as a recluse in New York City.[5]

Eleazar Sukenik and his wife, Chassia, were buried in the

atheist.[7]

Career

In addition to his important excavations in Jerusalem (including the "Third Wall" and numerous ossuary tombs), he played a central role in the establishment of the Department of Archaeology of the Hebrew University. He recognized the importance of the Dead Sea Scrolls to the State of Israel and worked for the government to buy them.[1]

In 1941, he discovered a burial cave in the Kidron Valley containing an ossuary belonging to a "Cyrenian" and inscribed "Alexander son of Simon". This "Simon" is possibly the Simon of Cyrene mentioned in the New Testament, though his identity cannot be confirmed with certainty.[8][9][10]

In 1948, he published an article tentatively linking the scrolls and their content to a community of

Essenes, which became the standard interpretation of the origin of the scrolls, a theory that is still the general consensus among scholars, but which has also been critiqued and nuanced by the community of scholars. In 1950, he received the Solomon Bublick Award of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
for this work.

Works

  • Ancient Synagogues in Palestine and Greece (
    Schweich Lectures
    of the British Academy for 1930). London, 1934.
  • The Third Wall of Jerusalem: An Account of Excavations. Jerusalem: University Press, 1930
  • The Ancient Synagogue of Beth Alpha. An Account of the Excavations conducted on behalf of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Jerusalem: Oxford University Press: London, 1932.
  • Samaria-Sebaste Reports of the Work of the Joint Expedition in 1931–1933, and of the British Expedition in 1935. London, 3 volumes 1938, 1942, 1957.

As editor

References

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  1. ^ a b "August 12: Eleazar Sukenik and the Dead Sea Scrolls". Jewish Currents. 2013-08-12. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  2. ^ "Eliezer Sukenik: Israeli archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  3. ^ "Yossi Yadin". IMDb. Retrieved 2017-12-06.
  4. Times of Israel
    , December 19, 2015
  5. ^ "Hotel hermit got $17M to make way for 15 Central Park West". New York Post. 2 March 2014. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
  6. ISBN 9781593330781
    .
  7. ISBN 9780982505304
    .
  8. ^ Powers, Tom (2003). "Treasures in the Storeroom". Biblical Archaeology Review. 29 (4): 46–51.
  9. ^ Avigad, N (1962). "A Depository of Inscribed Ossuaries in the Kidron Valley". Israel Exploration Journal. 12 (1): 1–12.
  10. ISBN 0-8028-4880-X
    .

Further reading

  • Goldman, Bernard (1966). The Sacred Portal: a primary symbol in ancient Judaic art. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. A book on an important synagogue mosaic discovered by Sukenik in 1928.
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