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Fr. Etienne Doumeth was a Lebanese Maronite priest (from Maad) who joined the brothers of Sion (St. Peter's Monastery in Jerusalem) where he taught Arabic. After a few years spent in Saint-Pierre, he was claimed by the Bible School, just opened (1890) and where a teacher of Arabic was sought. Fr. Doumeth then became a Dominican, made profession and lived in the convent of Saint-Etienne during the First World War, when the French fathers and brothers had to leave the country. He died in Saint-Etienne on October 5, 1929.

En 1971, il consacre un temps infini à achever le second volume de l’Histoire ancienne d’Israël. Le P. de Vaux était en effet mort accidentellement sans avoir pu rédiger l’intégralité de ses notes, que Langlamet reprend.
Sa participation à la TOB oriente durablement Langlamet sur les livres de Samuel et des Rois, notamment sur ce qu’il a appelé « l’histoire de la succession au trône de David » (2 S 9-20 et 1 R 1-2). Il conclut, après des années de recherches sur les sources de cette histoire, qu’il y avait eu plusieurs récits originaux qui furent combinés avec « l’histoire de la succession », puis des « additions benjaminites », lesquelles subirent des remaniements « théologico-sapientiaux ». Il élabora une méthode particulière qu’on pourrait qualifier à la fois d’étude du vocabulaire, de repérage des unités élémentaires et leur regroupement en unités plus importantes, la prise en compte de structures symétriques comme des chiasmes, « le tout en faisant apparaître à chacune des étapes de la rédaction un équilibre du texte bien différent de ce que serait une compilation irréfléchie et sans art3 ».
En 1995, il se retire de l’enseignement et de la recherche mais continue à être actif dans l’École. Il ne cesse pas de rendre de grands services à la Revue biblique, notamment en continuant à rédiger des recensions. En 1977, il y avait introduit une section « Recueils et Mélanges », qu’il rédigea seul jusqu’en 2003, et où il a présenté plus de 1000 ouvrages collectifs.

Pendant de longues années, il fut en charge de la sacristie et de la sonnerie des cloches du couvent. Sa personnalité précise et infiniment soigneuse y excellait.

Ses funérailles eurent lieu le 1e mars 2005. Il repose au cimetière du couvent Saint-Etienne.

Publications

• Gilgal et les récits de la traversée du Jourdain (Jos.,III-IV), (ChRB 11; Paris: Gabalda, 1969).

• Samuel (with André Caquot), in Traduction OEcuménique de la Bible (Edition intégrale; Paris: Cerf, 1975).

• “Israël et ‘l’habitant du pays’. Vocabulaire et formules d’Ex., XXXIV, 11-16”, RB 76 (1969) 321-50, 481-507.

• “Les récits de l’institution de la royauté (1 Sam. VII-XII). De Wellhausen aux travaux récents”, RB 77 (1970) 161-200.

• “Josué II et les traditions de l’Hexateuque” RB 78 (1971) 5-17, 161-83, 321-54.

• “La traversée du Jourdain et les documents de l’Hexateuque. Note complémentaire sur Josh., 3-4”, RB 79 (1972) 7-38.

• “Pour ou contre Salomon? La rédaction prosalomonienne en 1 Rois I-II”, RB 80 (1976) 321-79, 481-528.

• “Absalom et les concubines de son père. Recherches sur II Sam. XVI, 21-22”, RB 84 (1977) 161-209.

• “Ahitofel et Houshaï. Rédaction prosalomonienne en 2 Sam 15-17” in Studies in Bible and the Ancient Near East. Presented to Samuel E. Loewenstamm on His Seventieth Birthday (ed. Y. Avishur; Jerusalem: Rubinstein, 1978) 57-90.

• “Rahab”, DBS (1979) vol. 9, fasc. 52, col. 1065-92.

• “David et la maison de Saül. Les épisodes ‘benjaminites’ de II Sam. IX; XVI, 1-14; XIX, 17-31; 1 Rois II, 36-46”, RB 86 (1979) 194-213, 385-436, 481-513; 87 (1980) 161-210.

• “David et la maison de Saül (suite). II. Critique littéraire de II Sam IX, XVI, 1-14, XIX, 17-31” RB 88 (1981) 321-32.

• “Affinités sacerdotales, deutéronomiques, élohistes dans l’Histoire de la succession (2 Sam 9-20; 1 Rois 1-2)” in Mélanges bibliques et orientaux en l’honneur de M. Henri Cazelles (AOAT, 212; ed. A. Caquot and M. Delcor; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1981) 233-46.

• “David fils de Jessé. Une édition prédeutéronomiste de ‘l’histoire de la succession’”, RB 89 (1982) 5-47.

• “Les divisions massorétiques du Livre de Samuel. A propos de la publication du Codex du Caire”, RB 91 (1984) 481-519.

• “‘Le Seigneur dit à Moïse…’ Une clé de lecture des divisions massorétiques” in Mélanges M. Delcor (AOAT, 215; ed. A. Caquot et al.; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1985) 255-74.

• “David et Barzillaï. 2 Samuel 19:32-41a: Le récit primitif et sa ‘forme’” in I. L. Seeligmann Volume. Essays on the Bible and the Ancient World (ed. A. Rofé and Y. Zakovitch; Jerusalem: Rubinstein, 1985) vol. 3, 149-69.

• “Arithmétique des scribes et texte consonantique. Gen 46,1-7 et 1 Sam 17,1-54” RB 97 (1990) 379-409, avec É. Nodet, “Note complémentaire sur les calculs” 409-13.

• “1 Samuel 13 - 2 Samuel 1? Fokkelman et le prêtre de Nob (1 Sam 21,2-7)”, RB 99 (1992) 631-75.

• “De ‘David fils de Jessé’ au ‘Livre de Jonathan’. Deux éditions divergentes de ‘l’Ascension de David’ in 1 Sam 16 - 2 Sam 1?”, RB 100 (1993) 321-57.

• “‘David-Jonathan-Saül’ ou le ‘Livre de Jonathan’ 1 Sam 16,14 - 2 Sam 1,27” RB 101 (1994) 326-54.

• “Analyse formelle et numérique de 2 Samuel 7:1-17” in Studies in Deuteronomy: In Honour of C. J. Labuschagne on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday (VTSupp 53; ed. F. García Martinez et al.; Leiden: Brill, 1994) 101-22.

• “Le cadre alphabétique du ‘Livre de Jonathan’ 1 Sam 16,14 - 2 Sam 1,27” in Texts, Temples, and Traditions: A Tribute to Menachem Haran (ed. M. A. Fox et al.; Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996) 163-86.

Recensions :

• S. Mowinckel, Erwägungen zur Pentateuch Quellenfrage (1964) and Tetrateuch - Pentateuch - Hexateuch (1964). RB 72 (1965), 275-81.

• N. Lohfink, Das Hauptgebot (1963) and W. Richter, Die Bearbeitungen des ‘Retterbuches’ (1964). RB 72 (1965) 423-27.

• H. Seebass, Der Erzvater Israel (1966). RB 74 (1967) 260-63.

• R. Merindino, Das deuteronomische Gesetz (1969). RB 77 (1970) 586-92.

• W. Richter, Exegese als Literaturwissenschaft (1971). RB 79 (1972) 275-88.

• M. Weinfeld, Deuteronomy and the Deuteronomic School (1972). RB 79 (1972) 605-9.

• W. Fuss, Die deuteronomistische Pentateuch- redaktion in Exodus 3-17 (1972). RB 80 (1973) 92-99.

• H. Schulte, Die Entstehung der Geschichtsschreibung im Alten Testament (1972). RB 81 (1974) 432-41.

• H.-Chr. Schmitt, Elisa (1972) and A. Schmitt, Entrückung- Auf- nahme-Himmelfahrt (1973). RB 81 (1974) 442-46.

• F.-E. Wilms, Das jahwistische Bundesbuch (1973). RB 81 (1974) 458-59.

• W. Dietrich, Prophetie und Geschichte (1972), E. Kutsch, Verheissung und Gesetz (1973), H. Wippert, Die Prosareden des Jeremiabuches (1973), R. Mosis, Untersuchungen zur Theologie des chronistischen Geschichtswerkes (1973), S. Japhet, The Ideology of the Book of Chronicles and Its Place in Biblical Thought (1973). RB 81 (1974) 601-23.

• P. Diepold, Israels Land (1972), W. Resenhöfft, Die Genesis im Wortlaut ihrer drei Quellenschriften (1974), C.Westermann, Genesis (1972-74), and W. H. Schmidt, Exodus (1974). RB 82 (1975) 595-612.

• H. Rücker, Die Begründung der Weisungen Jahwes im Pentateuch (1973) and K. Jaros, Die Stellung des Elohisten zur kanaanäischen Religion (1974). RB 83 (1976) 102-8.

• E. Würthwein, Die Erzählung von der Thronfolge Davids (1974), and T. Veijola, Die ewige Dynastie (1975). RB 83 (1976) 114-37.

• S. Tengström, Die Hextateucherzählung (1976). RB 84 (1977) 286-90.

• A. de Pury, Promesse divine et légende cultuelle dans le cycle de Jacob (1975). RB 84 (1977) 429-38.

• R. Rendtorff, Das überlieferungsgeschichtliche Problem des Pentateuch (1977), and H. H. Schmid, Der sogenannte Jahwist (1976). RB 84 (1977) 609-27.

• R. Smend, Das Gesetz und die Völker (1971), T. Veijola, Das Königtum in der Beurteilung der deuteronomistischen Historiographie (1977), and B. C. Birch, The Rise of the Israelite Monarchy (1976). RB 85 (1978) 277-300.

• F. Crüsemann, Der Widerstand gegen das Königtum (1978). RB 87 (1980) 408-25.

• C. Conroy, Absalom, Absalom (1978), and D. M. Gunn, The Story of King David (1978). RB 88 (1981) 70-92. P. Weimar, Untersuchungen zur Redaktionsgeschichte des Pentateuch (1977), and C.Westermann, Genesis (1977-79). RB 88 (1981) 402-19.

• J. P. Fokkelman, Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel I (1981), F. Mondati, Delimitazione e struttura letteraria della cosidedetta Storia della successione al trono de Davide (1982), and W. Richter, Grundlagen einer althebräischen Grammatik. B. Die Beschreibungsemenen. III. Der Satz (1980). RB 90 (1983) 100-48.

• P. Kyle McCarter, I-II Samuel (1980-84). RB 93 (1986) 115-32.

• H. Rouillard, La péricope de Balaam (1985). RB 94 (1987) 428- 37.

• J. P. Floss, Kunder oder Kundsschafter? (1986). RB 96 (1989) 563-81.

• A. Rofé, The Prophetical Stories (1988). RB 97 (1990) 102-11.

• P. Beauchamp, L’un et l’autre Testament (1990). RB 98 (1991) 272-79.

• R. C. Bailey, David in Love and War (1990). RB 99 (1992) 729- 50.

• W. Richter, Biblia Hebraica Transcripta (1993). RB 101 (1994) 416-21.

• C. Riepl, Sind David und Saul berechenbar? (1993). RB 101, (1994) 612-16.

To be completed.
Historian, publisher, church figure.

Alexander Mordechai Dushkin was born in Suwalki, Poland in 1890, and was taken to the United States in 1901. He studied at City College, the Jewish Theological Seminary and Columbia University in New York, where he wrote the first doctoral dissertation on a Jewish educational theme (“Jewish Education in New York City”). Dushkin married Julia Aronson in Jerusalem in 1921 and had two daughters, Kinnereth Genslar and Avima Lombard. He died in Jerusalem in 1976.
1910-1918 was associated with the Bureau of Jewish Education under Dr. Samson Benderly at the Kehillah in New York City, and in 1916 went to Europe as a secretary of the American Jewish Relief Committee. 1919-1921 served as inspector of Jewish schools in Palestine and taught at the Hebrew Teachers’ College in Jerusalem.
1921-1922 was appointed secretary of Keren Hayesod in the USA.
1923-1934 directed Chicago’s Board of Jewish Education and founded the city’s College of Jewish Studies.
1934-1939 organized the Hebrew University’s department of education and was principal of the experimental Hebrew University Secondary School.
1939-1949 served as executive director of the Jewish Education Committee in New York.
1949-1960 established and directed the Hebrew University’s School of Undergraduate Studies, taught education and education administration at the University and served as Education Consultant to Hadassah Women’s Organization in Israel.
From 1962 he headed the Department of Jewish Education in the Diaspora at the Hebrew University’s Institute of Contemporary Jewry.
Dushkin edited educational publications in the United States and Israel and wrote many monographs and articles on Jewish education. In 1968 he was awarded the Israel Prize.

Eran Laor was born in Slovakia, and was active in the Allied Intelligence Bureau, assisting in the Aliyah (immigration) of Jews to Israel.
After the establishment of the State, he served as a representative of the Jewish national institutions in Europe. Laor authored books of poetry and philosophy, and also wrote an autobiography.
Together with Shoshana Klein, Laor compiled a catalogue of the map collection entitled Maps of the Holy Land:‎ Cartobibliography of Printed Maps, 1475-1900, published in New York in 1986.

Claude Reignier Conder was born on December 29, 1848 in Cheltenham, England. He studied at University College London and at the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich.

He was appointed lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1870. He carried out geographical studies in Palestine from 1872 to 1874, in the company of Lieutenant Horatio Herbert Kitchener. He continued his fieldwork until 1882 with the financial support of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
He was promoted to captain in 1882. He participated in the Anglo-Egyptian war the same year with the aim of putting an end to the rebellion led by Ahmed Urabi. In Egypt, he was assigned to the army's intelligence services. His great knowledge of the Arab peoples and the East was widely used by the British army. He took part in the battle of Tel el-Kebir and the advance towards Cairo.
He retired in 1904 with the rank of colonel.

Conder died in Cheltenham, England on February 16, 1910.

Frederick John Salmon was a British surveyor, foreign service officer, and soldier.
He served in the Ceylon Survey from 1908 to 1930, with the exception of his service on the Western Front during World War I. During the war, he made a name for himself by promoting cooperation between surveying and artillery. He also decided to print and distribute updated maps and to use aerial photography to update tactical maps.
He became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in December 1918. Between 1930 and 1933, Salmon headed the land and survey departments in Cyprus. He was appointed director of the Survey of Palestine at the end of 1932. He began work at the Survey of Palestine on March 27, 1933, and then launched an initiative to begin modern topographic mapping of Palestine. He was appointed Commissioner of Lands and Surveys of Palestine and a member of the Advisory Council of the Government of Palestine in 1935.
His cartographic work is in the collection of the Royal Geographical Society.

Emek Shaveh is an Israeli non-governmental organization (NGO) active since October 2007 and officially registered since December 2008.
It was created in order to counterbalance the local politicization of archaeology and to defend archeological sites.

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