Word: hebrews
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...other traditional favorites—Literature and Arts C-70: “From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, From the Old Testament to Christianity” and Life Sciences 1b, which focuses on genetics—made the top-five list again. Both courses saw increases in enrollment compared to a year ago: from 270 to 433 for the Bible course, and from 336 to 378 for Life Sciences...
...morally. But Greek-speaking Christians influenced by Plato saw our cosmos as shabby and misshapen and full of lies, and the idea was not to make it right, but to escape it and leave behind our material bodies. The church at its best has always come back toward the Hebrew view, but there have been times when the Greek view was very influential...
...pick up on the subtle missteps that only a native speaking audience - and the candidates' embarrassed speechwriters - remember. In 1999, one of us watched Vice President Al Gore trip up on the last sentence of a speech to the United Jewish Communities conference because of a mispronounced word of Hebrew, rendering it unintelligible to the audience (Gore recovered admirably, and no speechwriter was fired...
...France's Catholic bishops, he has traveled thousands of miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that prepared him for his charged work in Ukraine's villages, where the bottled-up emotions of aging Ukrainians pour out as they describe the executions they saw, and share details that some...
University President Drew G. Faust celebrated the fourth day of Hanukkah Friday, lighting the center candle on the menorah in front of Widener Library. Faust quoted the Hebrew inscription on the toy dreidel in her hand, saying “a great miracle has happened here.” “It’s a moment for community and for joy—look at all these happy faces,” Faust said, referring to the students in the crowd. “Especially for students away from home for the first time, it?...