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Ugaritic research is only just now showing up in Biblical studies. It strikingly affects a new translation of Psalms I (1-50) by Jesuit Father Mitchell Dahood, published by Doubleday this week as part of its Anchor Bible, a continuing project of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experts. Dahood, a professor of Ugaritic at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, draws on the Ras Shamra discoveries to correct and sometimes drastically change a number of obscure and, so he believes, previously misinterpreted passages in Psalms...
...Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should be the more meaningful "power." Yale's Marvin Pope, a Ugaritic expert who translated Job for the Anchor Bible, cites another clarification. In Job 41:25, King James reads: "When he raiseth up himself, the mighty are afraid: by reason of breakings they purify themselves." Pope argues that a correct translation would be: "At his terror the gods are affrighted; with consternation prostrate...
Huvelle will also anchor the mile relay team, and John Dockery, Bob Cook, and Tony Lynch are expected to run the other legs. Lynch won't enter his speciality, the hurdles, however...
Last week 92 cargo ships stood to in Viet Nam's six major ports. Only 40 were being unloaded; the rest lay idly at anchor. Some 40 more are being held up in the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan until the traffic thins. With the U.S. buildup, incoming cargo has increased tenfold in half a year, to 800,000 tons last month-and 60% of it must pass through Saigon. The average wait for a ship to be unloaded is 22 days at Saigon, 31 at Cam Ranh Bay, 40 at Danang-though both Cam Ranh and Danang are rapidly...
Junior defensemen Don Turcotte and Ron Jeanneault, one of the best tandems around, have played together for ten years--at Northeastern and at their home in Kapuskasing, Ontario. Goulie Gary Thornton, another Ontario junior, has rounded into top form since the Brown game. He will anchor a defense which is stiffer than either Bowdoin's or St. Nicholas...