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Judaism's Response. If Bea's chapter makes a gracious bow to the Jews, what should be the Jewish response? That question came under painful scrutiny last week in Chicago at the Biennial General Assembly meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in the Western Hemisphere. U.A.H.C. President Maurice Eisendrath seemed to offer an ecumenical balm of his own. "Interreligious understanding is not a one-way street," he said. "What about our Jewish attitudes toward Christendom, toward Jesus especially?" Eisendrath called for a reassessment of Christ's role...
Eisendrath quickly came under attack from Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion and a leader of the Reform Jewish academic community. In a closed-door session of the board of trustees, Glueck delivered a scathing, ten-minute rebuttal accusing Eisendrath of trading off a re-examination of Jesus in return for the Vatican Council's reassessment of antiSemitism. Eisendrath's remarks, he said, made it seem "as if American Reform Judaism were prepared to put Jesus in a central role as a great rabbinical leader...
...always been a rebellion for Aronson. After eight years of Hebrew studies, he turned against the strictures of orthodoxy and started learning to paint with Karl Zerbe. At first he defiantly depicted only New, therefore more forbidden, Testament figures Works like his Young Christ (see color) won him a place in 1946's 14 Americans exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Phillips' low-keyed prose does not match the stately measures of King James's scholars for beauty, but more than compensates by often making clear what they had transliterated word for word from the Hebrew. The King James Version makes Amos 4:6 sound like a fluoridation spiel, translating it: "And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities." Phillips recaptures the original sense with his phrasing: "It was I who gave you hungry mouths in all your cities." And in Micah 6:16, where the King James has the Lord meaninglessly warning "that...
Brisk English. Some Scriptural experts complain that Phillips' concern for sense rather than literal accuracy produces paraphrase rather than translation. Nonetheless, his method produces particularly happy results in Hosea, a puzzling book with a notoriously corrupt Hebrew text. Freely transposing sentences and phrases, Phillips produces line after line of brisk English that enlightens where the King James Version confuses-and probably makes more sense than the original. Sample comparative verses from Hosea...