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...making translations there is no end, at least where the Bible is concerned. This week appeared the first two volumes-Genesis and The Epistles of James, Peter and Jude-of a new version in English that is something of an ecumenical milestone. It is Doubleday's Anchor Bible, the first translation in history to combine the labors of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish scholars. Edited by William Foxwell Albright of Johns Hopkins, a Methodist, and Presbyterian David Noel Freedman of San Francisco Theological Seminary, the Anchor Bible is intended for the scholar as well as for the general reader...
...committee, such as the still unfinished New English Bible, often muffle their textual accuracy in tin-eared, corporate prose; one-man translations-Monsignor Ronald Knox's Roman Catholic version, for example-are often pleasing to read, but their eccentricities and errors make scholars wince. The credentials of the Anchor translators, who include seven Catholics, 15 Protestants and five Jews, are beyond dispute. Sweden's Bo Reicke, 50, who did The Epistles, was one of the first New Testament scholars to use the Dead Sea Scrolls in his research. The translator of Genesis, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser...
...defense of the Anchor Bible, Editor Albright points out: "We have learned more about the Bible in the past 150 years than in all the previous centuries since its composition." The King James translators, for example, had only 16th century copies of New Testament manuscripts to work from; scholars today can consult papyrus fragments that date from within 60 years of Jesus' crucifixion...
...into the city's hotel industry. Two new hotels-the Otani, with a revolving cocktail lounge on its roof, and the Tokyo Prince -boast 1,600 rooms between them, to add to the facilities of the huge new Okura and Tokyo Hilton hotels. In addition, eight ships will anchor in Tokyo Harbor to provide floating accommodations. Other tourists will be housed at Kakone, the coolly beautiful mountain resort 58 miles west of the city. Improvements to the ryokan, Japan's traditional inns, have added 4,000 more rooms to the total...
...Turkish response was swift, and spurred on by almost daily violent demonstrations against the U.S. embassy, for the Turks interpret U.S. policy as favoring the Greeks (the Greeks interpret it as favoring Turkey). The Makarios regime was informed that the passenger steamship Amiassa would anchor off the Cypriot port of Famagusta and its 335 unarmed replacements would land, if permitted, while an equal number of unarmed outgoing troops, under United Nations escort, would board the Amiassa and sail home. If the replacements were not allowed to land, said Ankara, a Turkish army would invade Cyprus under naval escort...