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Sunday Vespers for July will begin at Memorial Church at 8 P.M. on the 7th with The Reverend Arthur R. McKay, President of McCormick Theology Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, preaching, followed on July 14 by The Reverend Gordon M. Torgersen of the First Baptist Church, Worcester, Mass. On July 21 Professor Chandran Devanesen, Madras Christian College Madras, India, will preach. The Reverend Ferdinand Denbeaux of Wellesley College will preach on July...
...script samples from different eras to advance the science of paleography by a giant step; they provide a far earlier authority for the text of the Old Testament than had been available. The Old Testament is based on the so-called Masoretic text (from masora, tradition) developed in the 7th, 8th and 9th centuries A.D. by the schools of Babylonia and Palestine. Older than the Masoretic Bible is the Septuagint, a pre-Christian Greek translation which has been thought to be less authoritative than the Masoretic because of the difficulties of translating Hebrew terms into Greek. The Biblical manuscripts from...
Hope-Taylor was guided to it by the Venerable Bede, whose history of early Britain (written in the 8th century) related that Edwin, a 7th century king of Northumbria, had a royal palace of sorts at Gefrin, which is now the small (six houses) village of Yeavering in the Cheviot Hills. No visible traces remained, but in 1951 Cambridge University made an air survey of the region. Pictures of a field of sprouting barley showed a vague rectangular shadow and a smaller, wedge-shaped...
...hall in Beowulf owed more to the unknown author's imagination than to historical fact. At Yeavering, Hope-Taylor found no trace of such gold-leaf splendors: only a few potsherds, knives, belt fittings, nails, loom weights and a single gold coin. But the finds date from the 7th century A.D.-and he feels reasonably sure that King Edwin really ruled from this barbaric palace. It may have been the actual hall where he was converted to Christianity. According to a legend repeated by the Venerable Bede, a pious thegn called his attention to a sparrow that flew into...
...Lerici's new techniques have located 60 tombs, twelve of which were opened. They contained about 100 museum-worthy objects, including jars of a whitish powder believed to be 2,500-year-old flour. Most interesting find was a decorated vase, probably imported from Greece in the 7th century B.C. In the next three months Lerici intends to photograph the interiors of 300 more tombs and hopes to find at least 1,000 more museum pieces...