biography
pronunciation:
[gluk]
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| lived:
| (1900–71)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist and educator, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. An ordained rabbi, he earned a PhD at the University of Jena, Germany, returning to the USA (1928) to teach at Hebrew Union College, of which he was later president (1947–71). He discovered 1500 biblical sites in four decades of work in Transjordan and the Negev, including King Solomon's mines, Khirbet Nahasr, and the possible site of King Solomon's seaport at Ezion-geber. |
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