Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...culture's attitude toward life, death and the universe around it. The Greek myth of Prometheus, the Titan who stole fire from Olympus and gave it to man, thus symbolizes the race's aspirations, even when they conflict with the powers of nature. The almost contemporary Hebrew myth of the trials of Job, on the other hand, symbolizes man's submission to a power above nature, even when that power seems cruel and unjust. The two myths are, in effect, picture stories that tell the philosophies of two totally divergent cultures. The Greek stresses...
...Jews, however, Jerusalem is their hearts' desire as pious individuals, their goal and fulfillment as the chosen people. The city is specifically mentioned 750 times in Hebrew Scripture, and referred to euphemistically as the "City of David," "Holy City" or "Temple Mount" a thousand times more. Some Talmudic scholars conceive of it divinities, earthly and divine-"and so you find the Jerusalem above directly opposite the Jerusalem below," says the midrash. Jerusalem was the talisman on which Judaism in exile survived; on every Passover, Jews of the Diaspora promised one another: "Next year in Jerusalem." Even for unreligious Israelis...
Many Writers. Robert L. Lindsey, a scholarly Southern Baptist missionary in Israel, believes that Luke came first, followed by Mark, then Matthew. While translating Mark from Greek into modern Hebrew, Lindsey kept encountering words and phrases without Hebrew equivalents. Luke, on the other hand, translated so easily into Hebrew that Lindsey decided he must have used an earlier-hence more reliable-Hebrew source than the others. Markus Barth, son of the late Karl Barth, advances an even more unorthodox theory in his classes at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary: that the Gospel of John came first. Barth sees John's Gospel...
...Jesus: History and Culture of the New Testament (Herder & Herder; $33). As with the previous volume, the narrative is limited to appropriate texts from Scripture and a handful of background essays by biblical scholars-notably a thoughtful discussion of Jesus' Jewishness by David Flusser of Jerusalem's Hebrew University. For parts of his photographic essay, Lessing uses ancient and medieval Christian art-much of it unfamiliar Middle Eastern illuminations, mosaics and sculptures, all of it superbly reproduced in color. But the real eye-stoppers are the photographs of places where Jesus may have walked, such as the ancient...
Literary Logistics. Now comes Herman Wouk with serious intentions, a book more or less the size of War and Peace, and an opening dedication to his two sons marked with the single Hebrew word zachor (remember). Cynics might have been forgiven for thinking that with The Caine Mutiny Wouk had already written his World War II novel and moved on more or less permanently to such subjects as the plight of the Jewish princess defending her virtue (Marjorie Morningstar), or creeping decadence in the Caribbean (Don't Stop the Carnival). Not so. A thoughtful man, an Orthodox...