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Messianic Claims. Undiscouraged by the amount of chaff that they feel obliged to winnow from the Gospels, the Marburgers are delighted that they have so much left of Jesus that even the most skeptical historian must accept. Moreover, the sayings of Jesus that they believe to be his in whole or part-rather than creations of the church-are of such a quality, says Zahrnt, that "a single, absolutely distinctive picture of the person and work of Jesus emerges." This person was a prophetic rabbi who taught the imminence of the Kingdom of God and who dared...
Associate Editor William Bowen separated wheat from chaff, and had enough unused words to fill a few storage bins, but none so large as those grain storage bins in Kansas that are shown on the cover...
...that these press inquirers would not have to waste their own time searching for the lead of their story. In any list of appointments, White House correspondents no longer have to hunt for the significant names: Salinger has gotten the word-he conveniently separates the wheat from the chaff...
...commendable that straw-hat theatres are investigating the possibilities of off-Broadway drama in real off-Broadway settings, but until they ignore such worthless items as "The Two-Headed Baby" and learn to discriminate wheat from chaff, they will only be doing great disservice to a medium they want to foster...
...Indian staggered as if he had been struck. "It is too much!" he gasped. "It is the final piece of wheat and chaff! It is the insult direct! It is distinctly humiliating!" He turned, and groped his way into the building...