Word: caves
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...That suave, ivy league fraternity gentleman who pounds on your door Monday night may be pounding on your posterior before long.... Ask him if his is one of the large number of houses that are transformed into a prehistoric cave during that week. Let him tell you about the activities "which develop brotherhood." Let him tell you about the raw eggs that will be dropped into your mouth, about the pigly, nude races you will have, about the days you will be forced to remain awake...
...bigger game in mind. Earlier in the year, while dickering for fragments on behalf of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary with the Syrian cobbler Kando, who is unofficial middleman between the Bedouins and the scholars, Cross and his fellow scholars had been offered an exceptionally large piece from Cave 4 for $12,000. An old hand at the Bedouin bargaining table, the scholars began making counteroffers. Finally, last summer, during the height of the Middle East crisis, Cross and Jordanian Curator Yusuf Saad of the Palestine Archaeological Museum sat down with Kando for a bit of high-class haggling...
...immediately thrust the roll into the humidifier," said Cross last week. "It rolled out beautifully and required little cleaning and no patching. It's certainly the largest single piece we've gotten from Cave 4, and it's just magnificent...
Scholarly Glory. All Souls Unitarians will have to travel to Jerusalem to see their acquisition as Jordanian law prohibits any cave finds from being taken out of the country. But the church will have its share of scholarly glory; the new scroll will henceforth be known in bibliographies as the "All Souls Deuteronomy...
...haul of some 400 manuscripts from Cave 4 is now considered complete. Scrollsters are currently feverish with anticipation about the contents of Cave 11. Says Cross: "The scrolls from Cave 11 are absolutely complete and intact. One, the Psalms, will probably prove to be the first or second best of all the material that's been found-perhaps better even than the Isaiah. The Bedouins still have an unknown amount of material. When we can find the money or the donors, we'll be able...