Word: hebrews
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scrolls; of a heart attack; in Jerusalem. Two years after a Bedouin shepherd stumbled onto a cave near the Dead Sea in 1947, De Vaux was among a party of archaeologists who journeyed to the spot. There they uncovered more than 40 previously unknown caves, many containing ancient Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic manuscripts. The 2,000-year-old documents, pieced together and edited by an international team of scholars headed by De Vaux, turned out to be one of history's greatest archaeological finds...
Along the canal, TIME Correspondent Marsh Clark found an almost dreamlike calm, the silence broken by only the cawing of a blackbird and the sound of popular music from a radio in an Israeli bunker. Visitors were greeted by a red-and-white sign in Hebrew: LEISURE AND HOLIDAY VILLAGE. Near by, Israeli troops could see the skyline of the deserted city of Suez shimmering in the haze, and sometimes caught a glimpse of Egyptian soldiers swimming, fishing or making occasional threatening gestures in their direction. For their part, the Israelis tended tomato patches, sunned themselves or played chess...
Galicia, and at the age of six could translate the Old Testament from Hebrew into German. He was ten when his family emigrated to America. Shultz, a schoolteacher's son, was also an early scholar; he graduated from Princeton with honors in economics, was a World War II Marine major. Both men rose in the academic world and were tapped for frequent assignments in Government. Economist Burns, 67, and Industrial Relations Expert Shultz, 50, are both close friends of Milton Friedman, the Little Giant of monetary theory. Burns was Friedman's professor at Rutgers. Shultz was his colleague...
Many great composers have written a Mass to prove their ultimate skill. Latest to try is Leonard Bernstein, who had already set a Hebrew prayer for the dead (Kaddish) to music in his third symphony. By all accounts, his trip through the Roman Catholic liturgy will be something to see as well as hear. Along with the usual array of orchestra, choir and soloists, the Alvin Ailey dance company will appear before scenery by Oliver Smith. "It is an entirely new concept," says Bernstein, but he refuses to give many details. "I don't want to take away...
...wife next to him, he would laboriously point out letters of the alphabet to spell words, eventually turning the words into essays, books, even bits of music criticism, which he did as a hobby. Still more incredibly, he found time to collaborate with Martin Buber in translating the Hebrew Bible into German-a translation hailed as the best since Martin Luther...