Word: hebrews
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...Hebrew University of Jerusalem bestowed Summers with an honorary doctorate when he spoke there on Dec. 19. In a telephone interview yesterday, Menachem Magidor, president of the university, said the school had chosen to honor Summers for his academic achievements as well as “his very, very strong statements against any kind of anti-Semitism...
...more left-leaning interpreters doubt it. They claim that as Luke's Nativity went on, it became more openly critical of the Roman system and supportive of the struggles of its poorer Palestinian subjects. Mary's Magnificat, for instance, reprises some of the more radical sentiments of the Hebrew Bible: "[God] hath put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree/ He hath filled the hungry with good things;/ and the rich he hath sent away empty...
...people, and who must fight claims, some 2,000 years old, that the Nativities got the virginal conception wrong. Fellow Jews early on challenged Matthew's Gospel assertion that it fulfilled a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah that the Messiah would be born to a "virgin." (Isaiah's Hebrew actually talks of a "young girl"; Matthew was probably working from a Greek mistranslation.) Critics may also have alleged that Jesus' birth early in Mary's marriage to Joseph was the result of her committing adultery; much later Jewish sources named a Roman soldier called Panthera. Those accusations, some scholars...
...spirit of this week’s issue, we’ve turned the spotlight on our bedeviling but beloved brick building on Plympton St., headquarters of the vast Hebrew conspiracy to take over the media. Merry Christmas...
After the tournament finished, besotted Beiruters attempted to extend the fun by organizing a Holy War of Flipcup: Jews vs. Christians. The Hebrew contingent lost the match by mere seconds, but was buoyed by a raucous rendition of Hava Nagila. On the other side of the table, the victors celebrated with cries of “Jee-zus! Jee-zus!,” igniting a furor not seen since Wal-Mart’s midnight release party for “The Passion of the Christ?...