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Dayan (in Hebrew to Eban): This guy is crazy. Get him out of here...
...language and systematically communicated by means of it in varying magnitudes. The very foundations of this University attest to this fact: Latin used to be a prerequisite for admission to Harvard, and practically 50 per cent of the earliest curriculum of the school consisted of the study of Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac. Today every genuine scholar in this University uses language in one way or another as a tool...
Nearly a decade later, Yadin has finally completed his intricate work on the so-called Temple Scroll, the latest and quite possibly the last of the celebrated Dead Sea Scrolls. Later this year he will publish the full text in the original Hebrew and in an English translation, along with substantial explanatory material. Scholars, who have eagerly awaited the event, will be able to purchase the 900-page, three-volume...
Perhaps the most intriguing explanation is that offered by Biblical Scholar Shemaryahu Talmon, 56, dean of Hebrew University's Faculty of Humanities. Israel, Talmon argues, was born in desperate times that called for unorthodox methods if it was to survive. But, he says, "because we missed a beat in the growing-up process," the country has not made an orderly transition from frontier state to mature nation. "There are still traces of unorthodoxy," Talmon maintains, "and people have problems defining the boundary between what is permissible and what is not. In a society where you have unconventional feats such...
Despite its generally light touch, the new Catalog broaches some fairly sober issues. A thoughtful chapter on how the deaf can build a rewarding religious life outlines a sign-language worship service. Another section, on blindness, includes a Hebrew alphabet in braille. Other entries grapple with the ethical problems of premarital sex, contraception and abortion, trying to adapt the stern proscriptions of the Torah to more modern attitudes. Jewish divorce laws, for example, are weighted heavily in favor of the husband, making it difficult for the wife to start proceedings. The Catalog suggests ways to balance the inequality. "The important...