Word: crucifixions
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...born to a carpenter of Nazareth and his wife. For 20 centuries men have proclaimed this event to be the turning point in the history of the world-that God mysteriously became man in the lowly person of an itinerant rabbi whose life ended in crucifixion, a death reserved for slaves and rebels, on the orders of a despotic Roman procurator...
...Bible in the past 150 years than in all the previous centuries since its composition." The King James translators, for example, had only 16th century copies of New Testament manuscripts to work from; scholars today can consult papyrus fragments that date from within 60 years of Jesus' crucifixion...
...overriding question in the gubernatorial election will be the margin of victory of the Johnson ticket. For moderate Republicans throughout the East, Goldwater is a cross to bear; Volpe's problem is to avoid crucifixion on a cross of gold...
PROTESTANT AND ORTHODOX CENTER has the controversial film Parable, which shows the crucifixion of a clown in whiteface. The controversy seems to be between those who feel the film is art and those who think it's sacrilege. Most people probably know already which side they're likely to be on. If not, there's one way to find...
...Deicide? The original draft was composed by Augustin Cardinal Bea of Rome's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity, and declared that guilt for the death of Jesus was borne by all mankind. Therefore, it said, sermons and catechism lessons should not misuse the Gospel accounts of the Crucifixion to imply that the Jews were guilty of deicide. This declaration was bitterly opposed by Catholic bishops from the Middle East, who share the anti-Israel feelings of their Moslem neighbors, and by many European conservatives, who argued that Bea's text ran counter to what the New Testament plainly...