Word: correctives
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...worked to correct the situations, and there have been no such complaints since then," he wrote...
...skeptical scholars had well-developed views on the four traditional Gospels hardly in need of corroboration by committee. Yet Funk made what many found to be a compelling argument. At a time when the airwaves were full of televangelists touting the New Testament as God-inspired, inerrant (correct in all ways) and supportive of right-wing views, here was a channel for another viewpoint. "Bob Funk's Jesus is quite different from my Jesus," Crossan says. But both longed to get beyond what they saw as the prevailing attitude toward historical questioning: "Don't say it out in public...
...competence would be judged. This decision not only ran counter to the nation's long tradition of local control (thanks to local funding) of public schools; it also proved embarrassingly hard to implement. A blue-ribbon panel dithered over a national history standard and eventually brought forth a politically correct screed that was denounced by professional historians and rejected last year by a Senate vote of 99 to 1. A similar report on national English standards struck many people as so poorly written as to be useless...
...written sometime in the mid-to-late 2nd century A.D. Now, however, German papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede has startled the rarefied world of biblical scholarship by arguing that the papyruses are actually the oldest extant fragments of the New Testament, dating from about A.D. 70. Thiede's thesis, if correct, means St. Matthew's Gospel, as well as Mark's (on which it is based, in part), is not the secondhand account of Evangelists who were separated by decades from the Jesus of history. Instead, it reflects eyewitness testimony by near contemporaries of the carpenter from Nazareth...
...Lewis is correct to say that "first-year" can make for some awkward linguistics. If there were a "grammatically convenient and linguistically graceful alternative [to 'freshman'] that could be used everywhere," he wrote, he would prefer using it. It is true that "first-year" can make for some awkward constructions, but when has less-than-graceful wording ever stopped Harvard before? And schools that have already adopted "first-year," such as Columbia, Williams, Brandeis, Bowdoin, Trinity, Bates and Colby seem to have no problem with...