Word: aretz
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Gloomy forecasts, usually featuring short screaming matches and everyone going home, thus might seem more plausible than any reconciliation. The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz quipped last Friday that Israelis were divided into two camps about the conference: one skeptical and one pessimistic...
Strugnell's tenure was jeopardized by a November interview with the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, in which the scholar, calling himself an "anti-Judaist," declared that Judaism is a "horrible" religion with "racist" origins that in principle should not exist at all. "The correct answer of Jews to Christianity is to become Christian," said Strugnell, who denies he is an anti-Semite...
Harvard Divinity School's acting dean, Mark Edwards, declared those opinions to be "personally repugnant." Scholars had gossiped about Strugnell's views long before the Ha'aretz incident. As Washington's Biblical Archaeology Review released English excerpts from the interview, Strugnell's five colleagues on the scrolls team said they had already called for their boss's removal, citing his health problems -- among other things, he was known to be a heavy drinker -- and unspecified "complications...