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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Sholem Asch, 76, Polish-born Jewish writer of popular Biblical novels (The Nazarene, The Apostle, Mary); in London. An erudite man who always carried a pocket-sized Hebrew version of the Old Testament, Asch was saddened by Jew-Gentile divisions, stressed in his work the common roots of Judaism and Christianity ("For me, it is one culture and one civilization"). He came to the U.S. in 1910, became naturalized in 1920, but left in 1953 "with a broken heart," after some extremist members of the Jewish community attacked an apparent shift in his views toward Christianity ("Intolerance among...
Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning...
...assumed as almost certain that they were Essenes, an ascetic Jewish sect hitherto known chiefly from the accounts of Josephus and Philo. Much information about the Dead Sea covenanters is contained in the original scrolls (now in the Hebrew University just across the bristling boundary from the Jordanian Scrollers in the Israeli half of Jerusalem). Those first seven scrolls included, in addition to two versions of the book of Isaiah and a collection of apocryphal stories based on Genesis, four documents relating to the Dead Sea sect itself: 1) the Rule of the Community (also known as the Manual...
...Syrians see the "smooth ground" as meaning alternately a plain, a level road, the plateau east of the Dead Sea-or merely that they were unopposed. They identify the "animals" with which they trample the earth as the war elephants of which the Syrians were proud. But since the Hebrew language has a word for elephant, others ask, why did the scroll not use it if elephant were meant? As for the passage about worshiping their standards-Syrians, it is claimed, did this as well as Romans...
...revelation in a cigarette box. In the meantime, the scrolls have opened a wide new door to the study of Christianity. For the people of Qumran and the early Christians shared the same Hebraic theological tradition as well as the same language - in an era for which Aramaic and Hebrew sources hardly exist...