Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gospels. The Golden Legend of Jacques de Voragines and other pious legends are filled with detail that Author Keyes draws on. St. Anne's birth, according to these accounts, was miraculously foretold to her mother and father, called by some Mathan and Maria; upon their couch appeared the Hebrew word Anna (grace) written in gold letters. She grew up and married a young man known as Joachim, whose name had an equally propitious meaning-"Preparation for the Saviour." Legend tells how Joachim was rebuked by the high priest for his childlessness after many years of marriage, then visited...
...make any profane use of them, but only to look at them in order that we may give thanks unto Thy name for Thy miracles, Thy deliverances and Thy wonders." On sidewalks and playgrounds, children are still playing with their dredel, the four-sided tops marked with the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he and pe-first letters of the words ness gadol haya po (a great miracle happened here). Said one urchin this week to an onlooking grownup: "In other countries, the last letter on the dredel is shin for shama (there). Aren't we lucky to be here...
Initiated in 1954 with substantial backing from American business interests, the Middle Eastern program will produce its first batch of eight graduates this June. They will learn at least one of the four languages taught--Arabic, Turkish, Persian and Hebrew and will generally survey the area from economics to religion. Actually, the eight M.A.'s are only one part of the work of the Middle Eastern Center, which also sponsors independent research and grants doctoral degrees jointly with other University departments. It was the M.A. program, however, which brought the greatest response--especially from private business...
...taking courses in religion than ever before; the number of Smith girls enrolled in religion courses has doubled to 442 since 1950. On campus after campus, says Amherst's James Martin, "there is what one might call at least a new look at the values of our Hebrew-Christian heritage, not only as a neglected and important factor in our cultural history, but also as a possible source of faith for living in today's world-or yesterday's, or tomorrow's. For some men the new look is a second look at ideas and personalities...
...others ... it is a first look at something brand-new to their thinking. These come to us as religious illiterates. They are totally ignorant of Biblical literature . . . What they find, when they look for a first time with relatively mature minds at the Hebrew Epic, the Hebrew prophets, the wisdom of the authors of Job, the life and teachings of Jesus, the Resurrection Faith of the early Christian church, the synoptic vision of an Augustine or Thomas Aquinas, the courage of Luther or the consistency of Calvin, the . . . challenging insights of Kierkegaard, Buber, Earth, Tillich, or the Niebuhrs-what they...