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...Mount Sinai, God was unequivocal: "Thou shalt not commit adultery." Traditionally, most devout Christians have interpreted the Hebraic commandment to extend to all sexual relations outside marriage. Jesus even condemned lustful thoughts, saying that the man who indulged them had "already committed adultery in his heart." But in recent years, pressed both by changing sexual behavior and by liberal theologians, the churches have reluctantly come to grips with a "new morality" that questions whether any "sin"-including adultery or other nonmarital sex -is wrong in all circumstances...
...Poetry seems to come out of the Hebraic Christian tradition of humanism," he explains. "The humanistic tradition is destroyed in the big, industrial technological civilizations. In certain islands, the great universities like Harvard and certain Southern universities, we still have it, but it's not the prevailing culture any longer. In that sense, the anthology was a defense of poetry...
...psychiatrist and I were posed in the Couch-Chair-Say-The-First-Thing Motif. He was bent over his pad like a dead Hebraic scholar, but his mind and pen were spring and steel, ready to snap...
Moran, an authority on the Hebraic and non-Hebraic languages of the Middle-East, will become professor of Assyriology. He has been a lecturer with the Faculty since...
...himself." But Paul himself, as much Greek as Jew, used a different and more powerful language to proclaim Christ than did Jesus' simple fishermen followers in Jerusalem. And the more Christianity escaped from its Palestinian setting into the broader Mediterranean world, the more it turned to non-Hebraic languages and concepts to convey its central truths...