Nelson Glueck, 1900-1971, American archaeologist and educator, b. Cincinnati, grad. Univ. of Cincinnati, 1920, Ph.D. Univ. of Jena, Germany, 1926. Among the more than 1,000 sites in the Middle East that Glueck uncovered were the copper mines of King Solomon and the ancient Red Sea port of Ezion Geber. In 1947 he became president of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati; from 1950 he served as president of the merged Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. He wrote several books on archaeology, including Explorations in Eastern Palestine (4 vol., 1934-51), The Other Side of the Jordan (1940), The River Jordan (1946), Rivers in the Desert: A History of the Negev (1959), and Deities and Dolphins (1965).
Professor Nelson Glueck's pioneer study of hesed and its meaning in
the Bible has long been a basic source for biblical scholarship and
theology. When the work first appeared as a published doctoral
dissertation in 1927, titled Das Wort hesed im altentestamentlichen
Sprachgerrauche als menschliche und gottliche gemeinschaftgemasse
Verhaltunsweise, it was a methodological landmark study of the
history of the ideas of the Bible.
-- Alfred Gottschalk
Hebrew Union College
Los Angeles
The importance of Nelson Glueck's monograph on hesed is, perhaps,
best demonstrated in the use of his research in almost every
important study involving the term since 1927, and in the
relatively limited contribution made to Glueck's interpretation of
the word.
-- Gerald Larue
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