Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wyck Brooks and Suzanne La Follette) knew where he lived. It was an office joke that the only way to communicate with him was by leaving a letter under a certain stone in Central Park. He was an expert billiard player, a master of Greek, Latin and Hebrew, and a seasoned music critic. He was in the U.S. foreign service, serving under Ambassador Brand Whitlock in occupied Belgium in World War I. Since he had also been an Episcopal clergyman, his diary is studded with the names of such people as New York's Bishop Manning and Chicago...
...Scriptures translated into Latin by St. Jerome in the 4th Century from Greek and Hebrew texts...
Translator Knox is unconcerned about the Bible as "literature." He paid scant attention to the rich, rhythmic prose of the King James version. He worked directly from the Latin, Hebrew and Greek texts, hoping to get the sense across and letting the poetry fall where it might. But he avoided using a specifically modern idiom because it would soon be obsolete again; his aim was to achieve a kind of timeless English...
Died. Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, 71, California-born co-founder and longtime president of famed Hebrew University (Jerusalem), a leading Zionist and No. 1 champion of the binational state plan for Jews and Arabs in Palestine; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...horn (shofar) sounded, Jews around the world ushered in Rosh Hashana, the Hebrew New Year and 5,709 anniversary of the supposed date of the Creation...