Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven centuries ago by Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, better known (by the Greek form of his name) as Maimonides. Just published is the 20th century's first complete English version of Maimonides' classic Guide (University of Chicago; $15). Translated by Dr. Shlomo Pines of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the Guide freshly emerges as a mirror of an age and as the intellectual masterwork of a remarkable...
...thee this night?" they asked. "Bring them out unto us, that we may know them." Beginning with rabbinical interpreters in the 2nd century B.C., scholars have assumed that "know" here implied carnal knowledge. Apart from what it may mean in the story of Lot, Williamson argues, the Hebrew word for "know" (yadoa) clearly has a sexual connotation in only ten out of 943 instances in the Old Testament, and then it refers to heterosexual relations. "Plain logic," he says, "demands the ordinary sense of the citizens wishing 'to know' who are the strangers who come into the city...
William Sloane Coffin Jr., chaplain of Yale University; Rabbi Morris Lieberman of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation; and Msgr. Austin J. Healy, who marched as an official representative of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore...
...Europe with his versatile gifts for more than half a century." Buber is one of the master stylists of modern German prose, and his German translation of the Old Testament is one of history's most successful efforts to re-create the oral quality and poetry of the Hebrew Bible in another language. In his novels and folk tales, he has been responsible for re-creating the legend and lore of the Hasidim-the sect of joyfully pious Jews who flourished in the ghettos of Eastern Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. But Buber is best known...
...late Rabbi Leo Baeck were the unquestioned leaders of Germany's Jewish community; Buber organized schools, edited anti-Nazi journals, and in "The Question to the Single One" wrote a classic damning indictment of modern totalitarianism. In 1938, a rescue committee at Jerusalem's Hebrew University hired him, and he taught there until his retirement in 1951. He now lives quietly in a book-cluttered house on Lovers of Zion Street, tidying up his works for a collected edition-a mammoth task, since his bibliography runs to more than 800 items...