Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Further it appeared that all Rabbi Wise had been driving at was the expression of his enthusiasm for a book Jesus of Nazareth, written at Jerusalem and in Hebrew by a Dr. Joseph Klaussner, who set forth the Nazarene simply as a great Jew and not as the Christ...
...most characteristic portion is the Prophets' Play which was based on a sermon which had been attributed to Saint Augustine since the fifth century. In this sermon St. Augustine represents nine Hebrew prophets and three Gentiles Nebuchadnezzar, Virgil and a Sibyl as reasoning with the Jews in an effort to persuade them that Jesus was the Messiah. In the play Isaiah, Daniel, the Sibyl and Aaron in turn speak their prophecies and then intone a chant...
...Moses, mountain, chief and head of Past Tample, thank Pharaoh Hiachepsat for having drawn me out of the Nile and helped me to attain high dignities." This is the grand message, the revelation of the Hebrew lawgiver, Moses, according to one scholarly gentleman. According to another it is bunk drivel. The question, therefore, like the sword of Damocles, remains suspended...
...Manhattan, erected 57 years ago on land which cost $55,000, was sold last week for $7,500,000 to a Polish Jew named Benjamin Winter, who came to the U. S. in 1905 to paint tenements. As the site for a new temple, the congregation (the Reformed Hebrew Society) has purchased the large marble dwelling at the northeast corner of Fifth Ave., and 65th St. owned by Vincent Astor, and upon its ruins will erect a magnificent temple...
There is the copy of President Dunster's Hebrew and Greek Bible, printed by Plantin in Antwerp in 1573-74, and used by him during the presidency of Harvard College from 1640 to 1654. His bookplate, in Greek, is pasted at the foot of the title page and is dated 1633, indicating that it was printed while he was still in residence in the University of Cambridge. The Bible was presented to the Library in 1841 by the Misses Dunster, daughters of Rev. Isaiah Dunster, of the class of 1741, a great grandson of Henry Dunster, the first president...