Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Particularly among students, this new communal Jewishness is creating a heightened interest in Hebrew, Yiddish, Jewish history and even Bible study?though for many the latter is more cultural than religious. On U.S. campuses, an impressive number of Judaic courses have been added to the curriculums, often at the students' instigation. At least 55 secular colleges and universities?more than half of them top-ranking schools?now offer courses in Jewish studies, compared with only eleven a generation ago. Where formal Jewish studies fail to meet the demand, "free Jewish universities" have sprung up for adults as well as collegians...
...does reveal himself to man, and that he has, in one way or another, established some kind of special covenant with the Jews. For the traditionalist, that may mean the literal, biblical Covenant first made by God with the patriarchs?Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?and later confirmed with the Hebrew people as a whole at Sinai. For others it may mean a more existential relationship, perhaps with a less personal...
Raphael also provides the full Hebrew-Aramaic text of the Haggadah, along with his own English version. For the translation of the Bible narrative he eschews modern editions in favor of the King James Version, because it preserves the "loving intimacy which the rabbis had with the original." But when it comes to the Haggadah's blessings, prayers and songs, he applies a free hand, as in his cheerful rendering of this favorite from 7th century Palestine...
...been quick to see that such controversial editorial tactics could help to revitalize the thinking of less radical communities too. The best new Jewish journal on the market today -and arguably the liveliest Jewish periodical in the U.S.-is a slim, stapled biweekly called Sh'ma, from the Hebrew confession of faith, which begins "Sh'ma Yisrael" (Hear, O Israel). The eight-page offset sheet was started in 1970 by Reform Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, professor of Jewish thought at the Manhattan campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Scholar Borowitz, 48, who edits...
Pines considers it probable that the newly discovered passage was at least partially written by Josephus. His colleague at Hebrew University, Comparative Religion Professor David Flusser, regards its authenticity as certain. But the two agree in thinking that the new passage derives from a quotation of Josephus in an early edition of an ecclesiastical history by Bishop Eusebius of Caesarea, a commanding figure of 3rd and 4th century Christianity. In a later edition of his history, they speculate, Eusebius inserted instead the traditional Testimonium Flavianum because it was more in keeping with the Christian conception of Jesus. Only the fact...