Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year 1951 (by Hebrew count 5712) was the first shmita to come round after Israel gained its independence. But with a partly Socialist government and a farming population that is generally far from Orthodox in its religious views, Israel's modern Orthodox rabbinate was hard put to observe the Law. To avoid flouting it openly, the rabbis technically "sold" the entire territory of Israel to an obliging Arab named Mahmoud. Mahmoud gave the rabbis power of attorney, which enabled them to "sell"the state back to themselves, at the close of the sabbatical year...
...Chairman Luther Weigle, dean emeritus of Yale Divinity School, and his fellow translators prepared a full statement of their guiding principles. Its substance: not only is the text of the King James version weighed down with old words and phrases, not used in modern English, but the Greek and Hebrew texts on which it is based were often faulty and sometimes misleading. "The Greek New Testament they used," says Dean Weigle, "had five to six thousand errors...
Despite its pretentiousness, the book has some completely charming parts. Lee's tale of how he engaged four learned old Chinese sages to learn Hebrew in order to translate a crucial verb in the Bible is one of them, as is the story of how Sam Hamilton's wife took her first plane ride. The flight was doubly terrifying because the airplane was something she essentially did not believe...
...place for such a bright (and unmuscular) young man. Arthur was soon selling lemonade on the streets of Haifa-and selling so little that he turned in his equipment after a few days. Then followed a year of semi-starvation, which Arthur softened by composing fairy stories in Hebrew...
...Promotions came slowly for those who, like Naguib, refused to kowtow to palace lackeys. So Naguib assuaged his boredom by taking courses in law and political economy. He also taught himself to speak German, French and Italian as well as fluent English. (He is currently learning Hebrew...