The greatness of the Bible lies in the fact that it speaks to every Jew regardless of his viewpoint, Premier David Ben Gurion and a scholar of the Bible, said today at the opening of the sixth conference of the Israel Bible Research Society. The parley will last four days.
The Premier sat quietly attentive as Prof. Moshe Zvi Segal, another Biblical scholar, lashed out at Israel as a secular nation whose “rejection of Judaism is liable to bring about moral rot which will result in the crumbling of our strength from within. ” Prof. Segal also lambasted the sudden “demotion of the Bible to the status of ancient secular literature serving merely as a source for historians and archaeologists. “
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