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...Abd senior flanker Jin Garvey, who had been running a lot of patterns without seeing the all much so far this year, hauled in four Allard tosses in the first half alone good for 89 yards...
...known that the Prophet was born about A.D. 570 to a member of the respected Meccan clan of Hashim. His father died shortly before Muhammad was born, and his mother when the boy was only six. Two years later, his doting grandfather Abd al-Muttalib died, leaving the orphan in the care of a poor uncle, Abu Talib. As a youth, Muhammad was set to work tending his uncle's herds; he later recalled that task as a mark of divine favor. "God sent no prophet who was not a herdsman," he told his disciples. "Moses was a herdsman...
Staging, in fact, is another of the production's strong points. Abd'el Farrah's scenery is effective and elegant (at least, what I could see of it. The management had stuck me back in the last seat of the orchestra, with the balcony looming over me, so I really only saw half the play--the bottom half). In one of the most dramatic sequences, the two figures which were formerly protraits step out of their frames as live figures (this caused the girl next to me to gasp aloud, and then crumple with embarrassment). Such a gimmick might seem...
...Abd-al-Jabbar's account of the Naza renes is widely at variance with previous conceptions about the sect. Although Jerome claimed that the Nazarenes be lieved in Christ's divinity, the book declares that they regarded Joseph as the natural father of Jesus, whose Passion and death were proof that he was simply a great prophet and righteous man. On the grounds that Jesus himself was an observant Jew, the Nazarenes practiced circumcision, abstained from eating forbidden foods, faced toward Jerusalem when praying, and observed the Sabbath on Saturday instead of Sunday. The Nazarenes refused to celebrate...
Much of the Nazarene text copied by Abd-al-Jabbar consists of polemics against St. Paul, charging that he heretically substituted Roman customs for the authentic teachings of Jesus and falsely proclaimed him to be God. What intrigues scholars far more, however, is the presence of passages with a strikingly Gospel-like ring, including several previously unknown sayings attributed to Jesus. One such teaching, as translated by Pines: "I shall not judge men nor call them to account for their actions. He who sent me will do this...