Word: diasporas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That ancient exile the Wandering Jew has never been harder to track. He may travel less from country to country; but, hung up in a no man's land between a fixed Talmudic past and a restless, skeptical present, he suffers from a different kind of Diaspora...
Despite the visible health and prosperity of existing denominations, there is a considerable number of future-oriented theologians who feel that the church, in large parts of the world, is entering a stage of Diaspora-when, like Judaism, it will survive in the form of a scattered few, the hidden remnant. Strangely enough, there are any number of Christians who rejoice at this prospect rather than fear it. This is not because they want to see the fainthearted and the half convinced drift away into unbelief. Rather, they prefer that the choice of being Christian once again become openly...
...Jewish secular campuses in the U.S. offering Judaic studies has jumped from seven to more than 100, and the growing demand has underlined the shortage of first-rate Jewish scholars. Schools are competing by upping salaries and fringe benefits. The migration of Jewish professors amounts to a new Diaspora, and even administrators of some Jewish schools are having difficulty in staffing their classrooms...
...crime," in which primitive men cannibalistically devoured their fathers out of both jealousy and a desire to identify with them; in time, the father image was projected into the cosmos to alleviate inherited guilt. Rubenstein contends that the Haggada's tales, especially as they were elaborated after the Diaspora, have helped provide the Jewish people with "the psychological strength to live as an endangered minority without inner deterioration...
...pair of bylines! But this account of last summer's Arab-Israeli war by Sir Winston Churchill's son and grandson only exposes the soft underbelly of the publishing world. A tedious example of quickie book-journalism, the book retells Jewish and Arab history from the Diaspora to 1967. Next, lengthy quotes from diplomatic and press dispatches trace the immediate prewar events at yawning length. The narrative of the war itself relies heavily on the turgid reports of field commanders, completely misses the sense of speed and surprise that made the Israeli victory possible, and even manages...