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Though ominous harbingers of trouble had been in the air for days, most of South Viet Nam lazed in uneasy truce, savoring the happiest and holiest holiday of the Vietnamese year. All but a few Americans retired to their compounds to leave the feast of Tet to the Vietnamese celebrators filling the streets. Vietnamese soldiers made a special effort to rejoin their families. Relative visited relative, threading through thousands of firecrackers popping and fizzing in the moonless night. The Year of the Monkey had begun, and every Vietnamese knew that it was wise to make merry while there...
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 rite--a fish--is the same for both groups. Essenes and Christians both called themselves the "People of the New Covenant," thus the scrolls not only explain the Old Testament, but provide insight into...
Americans, it is said, hunger for facts. If so, this is the feast season, with the appearance of Scripps-Howard's World Almanac. One hundred years old this year, the Almanac offers 916 pages of facts on taxes, elections, strikes, natural disasters, population, Viet Nam and sports events...
...Black. Von Karajan's Walküre was hardly a love feast for the traditionalist who prefers bombast in Wagner. The five-hour morality saga of human love in conflict with divine power-and of divinity in conflict with itself-has hardly ever sounded so subdued and lyrical. Without the need to outshout torrents of sound from the pit, the singers often performed at little above normal conversational tones...
...would have undertaken any kind of fact-finding investigation on behalf of the hated bloody-handed Pontius Pilate. Just as improbable would have been a trial after sundown-especially on the eve of Passover, when most members of the Sanhedrin would have been busy with ritual preparations for the feast. Still, if they had met, under Jewish law any condemnation would have required the sworn testimony of at least two trustworthy witnesses. Even according to the Gospels, none could be found. Why, then, did the Jewish authorities summon Jesus? Their motive, Cohn believes, may well have been a desire...