Eleazar Sukenik

Eleazar Lipa Sukenik (also: Eliezer / Eliezer Lipa Sukenik, born August 12, 1889 in Białystok, † February 28, 1953 in Jerusalem) was an Israeli archaeologist.

Sukenik emigrated in 1912 to Palestine one. He gained his degree in 1926 at the Dropsie College ( Philadelphia ), since 1927, he worked as an archaeologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Since 1935 he was a lecturer, since 1938, professor and head of the antiquities museum of the University. Under Sukenik line, the first Jewish excavations in the country took place, where ancient synagogues have been excavated, as in Bet Alpha, Hamat Gader or Salbit ( the biblical Scha'albim ). Sukenik also took part in the excavations at Samaria.

After the discovery of the first seven scrolls from the Dead Sea Sukenik bought in 1947 first three roles ( 1QM, 1QHa and 1QJesajab [ 1Q8 ] ) from the antique dealer Kando. The remaining four ( 1QS, 1QpHab, 1QJesajaa and 1QapGen ) could check Sukenik, but do not. They came into the possession of the Syrian Metropolitan Athanasius Yeshue Samuel, who brought them to America to be sold there by newspaper advertisement. After finally succeeded Sukenik death in 1954 his son, the Israeli general, archaeologists and politicians Jigael Jadin, in New York to acquire the roles for the State of Israel. Sukenik was the first to make a connection between the scrolls from the Dead Sea and the Essenes.