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Abba Eban was born in Cape Town, South Africa in 1915. He moved on to London in 1922, studied and later taught Arabic, Hebrew and Persian at Cambridge. He once debated the case that the British educational system at Cambridge was insupportable "because it professed to educate a governing class which could not govern." Eban went to the World
Over 150 people, representing four religions yesterday honored Harry A. Wolfson '12, Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy...
...Habakkuk, a collection of hymns, a scroll tentatively thought to be the Book of Lamech, a heretofore unknown work called the War of the Children of Light Against the Children of Darkness. The manuscripts apparently dated back to the second or third century B.C. and antedated the oldest existing Hebrew Biblical manuscript (Codex Babylonicus Petropolitanus, A.D. 916) by more than a thousand years...
...director of the Jordanian Department of Antiquities, visited the cave, which was in Jordan in an area called Khirbet Qumrân (stone ruin). They found hundreds of additional manuscript fragments and pieces of broken pottery, later discovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient manuscripts in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. Altogether, the manuscripts included parts of almost every book in the Old Testament, apocryphal works and literature of various Jewish sects, dating to the first and second centuries...
...appeal for her was that he made her see "that one didn't have to be a stupe to be religious." When Herman went back to sea, Betty Brown began studying Judaism, and a year later, on her 25th birthday, became a Jewish convert. Betty's Hebrew name is Sarah Batya: Wouk picked Sarah, and Batya (chosen for its resemblance to Betty) means "daughter of God." When Herman broached the idea of marrying Sarah, "Mama thought the end of the world had come," but "Grandfather understood...