Nelson Glueck: Biblical Archaeologist and President of the Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion

Jonathan M. Brown and Laurence Kutler

Alumni Series of the Hebrew Union College Press

Contents

Foreword by Alfred Gottschalk

Preface

• 1. From Ponovezh to Cincinnati
• 2. Education for the Reform Rabbinate
• 3. The Lure of a German Doctorate
• 4. The Nascent Archaeologist
• 5. Head of the American Schools
• 6. Opportunities at Home and Abroad
• 7. A New Career Beckons
• 8. Academic Growth and Institutional Challenges, 1947–1952
• 9. Glueck and Eisendrath: Enmity in Velvet Gloves
• 10. Surveying the Negev
• 11. Tel el-Kheleifeh Refined
• 12. At the Helm, 1952–1963
• 13. Establishing a Foothold in Jerusalem
• 14. Issues and Events, 1964–1970
• 15. Intimations of Mortality
• A Man of Rare Vision

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index