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FRANCE REBORN by Robert Aron. 490 pages. Scribner...
...West, had participated to a greater or lesser extent in their own liberation. Yugoslavia and Albania defy Russia today partly because they rose against the Germans initially without Soviet aid. And in the West, it was Italy and France who helped the Americans drive out Hitler. Raymond Aron has written: "If France had not taken part in her own liberation, she would have had to under-take the heavy task of reconstruction in an atmosphere of grief and humiliation...
...Christ's baptism at the age of 30, the New Testament records only one incident in the life of Jesus: his visit, at the age of twelve, to the Temple in Jerusalem, where he spent three days in conversation with the rabbis, astounding them with his learning. But Aron argues that Jesus was presumably brought up like any other boy of Biblical times; by understanding the nature of that childhood training, Christians can better understand the human personality of the man they worship...
...mean-as untutored readers of the King James version might assume-that justice demands violent revenge for violent crime. "This would be contrary to the Jewish law of loving one's neighbor as one's self and having mercy on one's enemy," Aron points out. "It is a typically Semitic metaphor meaning that there is an appropriate punishment for every crime...
Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...