Word: hebrew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What does this college generation actually know about the rudiments of the Hebrew-Christian tradition?" To this question an article in the Christian Century last week answered: "It is almost illiterate...
...Literally, "the wild beast of the reeds"-the symbol of Egypt. In the original Hebrew the word for wild beast may also mean company; the word for reed may mean spear...
...Psalms in the Douay Bible are translated from a Latin translation of a Greek translation of the Hebrew. Though most of the Latin Vulgate on which the Douay Bible is based is taken directly from the Hebrew, the 4th Century scholars were reluctant, when the Vulgate was being made, to give up the older versions of the Psalms, most of which they had learned by heart...
...Chronicles is the brain child of Polly Van Leer, wife of a Dutch-Jewish industrialist. After hef husband went to Israel to manufacture steel drums, Mrs. Van Leer decided to indulge an expensive but interesting hobby: retelling Old Testament history. She persuaded students and professors at Jerusalem's Hebrew University to do historical research, got Israeli journalists to act as rewrite men, signed up another ex-Netherlander, Yaakov Zutan, to edit the paper. By last week the six-month-old English edition had reached a circulation of 5,000, including a subscription from Rome's Vatican Library...
...World War II, refugees from European concentration camps have been filtering in, bringing the dress, customs and fears of the Old World's Orthodox Jews. Synagogues stand on almost every corner; the streets are full of men with long beards and skullcaps; store signs are written in Hebrew, and their clerks speak Yiddish. Wig salons thrive-many women shave their heads, according to Orthodox custom...