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Others see him as more of a Mephisto, who is intent on denying either major challenger a majority of the electoral vote. He could then swap his support for a "covenant"-as he calls it-with the candidate who agrees to advance his policies. Besides the predictable Southern vote, Wallace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Politics: Support from the Guts | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

The God of the Hebrew Bible is depicted as the faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews: Holy Nothingness | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Important for both Christian and Jewish history, however, is the similarity between the Essene rights and early Christian rituals. The Essenes had a sacramental meal which included the eating of the "feast of leviathan" and closely parallels the Lord's supper and the Eucharist rite. Even the symbol of the...

Author: By Diana L. Ordin, | Title: There's Nothing Dead About The Dead Sea Scrolls That A Lot of Money Couldn't Cure | 12/4/1967 | See Source »

Pious & Pungent. Kraus thereupon deduced that all seven were in fact living Christians and Jews, each presenting his respective claims to salvation. The Jews were raising their hems in order to show that they were sons of Abraham, who by his circumcision sealed his people's covenant with the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Cathedrals as Living Drama | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

On the other hand, both Christianity and Judaism have deep roots in history: the story of the Jewish people is the record of God's covenant with a chosen race; Christianity bases its claims on the proclamations of a specific human figure. For that reason, churchmen argue that the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Holy Land: City of War & Worship | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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