Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-08-24
just As The
Bible Said -.

the land where they written thousands of ago
that being duplicated time and again here in Israel Not
only they providing clues for Biblical detectives
engaged in of the great hunts Of all time the
in this being wealth of minerals and natural
resources such OIL believed buried under the soil of Israel
they dazzling archaeOogsts and historians with their
pin-poin accuracy.
Take the clue caught the eye of Dr. Nelson GIuec
president of Hebrew Union CoIIege-Jewsh Institute of
Religion in Cincinnati, Ohio wordfamed archaeologs
and Biblical scholar he has spent 20 years rampng up and
down the NeeeV, Iaes and arid DESERT in search Of
what the Bible tells him there This clue from Deu
teronomy 81 and 9:
For the Lord thy God brzgenH thee good land
land whose stones iron, and of whose hills thou
SIayeSf dig BRASS"
Since brass is an alloy of copper and zinc Dr. Glueck felt
that the word brass in the Bible mstranatonfor
copper After journey by camel caravan and by foot that
would provide enviable script for Hollywood epic he
found what he looking the rich copper mines that
had helped make King Solomon wealthy monarch and that
had been lost to civilization for ary 5000 years.
Today the stiffness of the desert broken by the dater of
booming busting mining and coppersmeling industry that
is being built at Tmna, the site Of the Biblical mines.
Retracing the steps this discovery with Dr. Gueck
recently stood in the heart Of the desert in front of two
massive wnderoded cagy stone columns that ut from the
parched brown sand.
Even Swimming Pool
e." have always gone the assumption the historical
statements in the Bible Dr. Glueck said ION that
basis have made some of my most important finds"
DR.. Guecks faith is echoed by DR.. Ygal Yadn, former
commandernchef Of the Israeli Army who is directing
excavations at the Biblical city Of Hazor in northern Israel
From the Bible description he has made list for the women
eizng objects they could expect find To their amaze
ment but not to his they have thus far found everything
including the city gate that the Bible said was there
Water IS always problem in land that than half
desert. That why is than startling suddenly to drive
up to swimming pool complete with diving board, in the
middle of the bleak NegeV The swimming pool result Of
search conducted desert settlement named
Yotvaa, after the Biblical Jotbath The Biblical clue that
water there? found in the story of the wandengs
of the children of Israel told in Deuteronomy 1877:
From thence they jOwneyed GndeO-dah; and from
GHdgO-dGh TO JOfb0fh, land Of rivers and waters"
AtOuchng story of faith the prophetic of the Bible
was told this writer by Dr. Dow Joseph Israes former Minis
ter of Development Figuring in is the account Of the bless
ingS bestowed by Moses upon the tribes Of Israel in De
teronomy 33:2425 in which Moses says Asher Thy
shoes shall be IRON"
Inspecting newfydscoVeTed vein Of iron in the hills
of Gaee in northern Israel Dr. Joseph approached by
one Of the mine workers, stopped, whehaed old man
who produced from his shirt front rough map of Biblical
Israel showing the mine in the land Of Asher and his tribe
And here, sir the old man said I'VE have found the iron
Moses promised usr' The End