Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...robed Roman Catholic monks last week went quietly about their accustomed work: building a retreat where Moroccans and Europeans can meet, trade social and political theories, and learn each other's foreign ways. Their oasis of understanding is Morocco's only Christian monastery, the Benedictine Priory of Christ le Roi at Tioumliline...
Underneath the story of the gentle, Christ-like Cathleen, Yeats suggests morals, and points to open questions, usually on the level of simplicity and common sense. Famine, for example, is clearly a great road away from religion. Devils are often triumphant in the material world; they pay. Moreover, they can even pay with Cathleen's--and through her, God's--money...
Directors Prescott Evarts' and Dave Green's blocking is competent, and they make clever use of the Christ Church interior. But the acting and diction of most of the cast is reminiscent of a Sunday School recitation. Everyman is a delicate play, and the overstatement of the text must be moderated by a straight and unembellished delivery if the allegory is to be believable and effective as theater. Prescott Evarts overacts the central role of Everyman with false emotion and gestures that border on the ridiculous. He seems, as actor and director, to have no idea of the simplicity...
...have been permitted a preliminary peek. On the basis of this examination, they tentatively identified the Cave II scrolls as the Biblical 'Psalms and Leviticus, an apocalyptic description of the New Jerusalem, and a targum (i.e., a translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons) by Rabbi Gamaliel I, teacher of Saul the Pharisee, who later rode down the road to Damascus to become Paul the Apostle...
...Three Messiahs. Scholars doubt whether the Righteous Teacher will ever be specifically identified. The important question is whether, as has been suggested, he prefigured Christ in any sense. Actually, scholars are now generally convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return...