Word: apocrypha
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Vidal is his own best act, and he does show off. He cannot defend homosexuality without name-dropping Apuleius, making sly references to the Spartans, and advising the reader to check his concept of masculinity against circuitous quotations from the Apocrypha (Il Maccabees 4: 7-15). Even in the midst of considering children's literature, the portentous generalization can tempt him: "In the last fifty years we have contributed relatively little in the way of new ideas of any sort. From radar to rocketry, we have had to rely on other societies" etc., etc. Sarcasm betrays him into rhetorical...
...would have perished and Christianity would never have been born. There is, therefore, historical justice in the fact that for several centuries the Christian church observed Aug. 1 as a festival entitled "The Birthday of the Maccabees" and that the historical books bearing their names are part of the Apocrypha. In Judaism the Maccabees are remembered by the Hanukkah festival in December...
...University Press announced that Boston's uncommon ecumenist, Richard Cardinal Cushing, had given his imprimatur to its Oxford Annotated Bible, an edition of the Revised Standard Version that includes elaborate notes and commentary prepared by leading Protestant scholars. The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha-the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics as canonical...
...belief in the letter, of a narrow-minded caste spirit and materialistic piety," as the German Catholic Theologian Karl Adam put it. On the contrary, Isaac argues, the two centuries before Jesus' birth marked an era of great spiritual vitality, which produced both the beautiful writings of the Apocrypha and the flowering of the synagogue as a faith-renewing institution. Many of Jesus' own sayings can be traced to the teachings of the much-abused Pharisees, notably the great Rabbi Hillel (circa 110 B.C.-A.D. 10). Moreover, Isaac notes, the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls proves that...
...dictionary, billed as "by far the most comprehensive Bible Dictionary ever published," is the first major definer of Bible terms to be published in 50 years. Its 8,000 entries include "every person named in the Bible or Apocrypha; every town and region, hill and stream; every plant, animal and mineral; every object used in daily life; every Biblical doctrine and theological concept...