Word: heroding
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Then, too, consistency may be dangerous and destructive. Marianne Moore wrote a poem, "The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing," in which she compared the iridescence of the human mind with the "glaze on a katydid-wing," to emphasize its perpetual variety and mutability. "It's not a Herod's oath that cannot change," she concluded, invoking a most terrible example in the figure of Herod, who would not prof it from experience, who would not alter his position even when heaven screamed...
...strangest symbol of such controversy is Anwar Khatib, a suave attorney who maintains a dingy office behind the Herod's Gate post office and proclaims himself to be the Jordanian governor of Jerusalem. And although the last Jordanian forces were driven out of Jerusalem 15 years ago this June, a number of consuls come to pay him Official courtesy calls...
...Chicago's Moody Press, began this biblical rewrite because the King James perplexed his children. Taylor knows neither Greek nor Hebrew, but checked his work with experts. The result is a vastly popular, very interpretative, always readable paraphrase. The Living Bible is sometimes pretty breezy ("It was Herod's birthday and he gave a stag party"-Mark 6:21) or shocking ("You son of a bitch!"-Saul to Jonathan in 1 Samuel 20: 30-changed to "You fool!" in recent printings). Scholars, including some of Taylor's fellow Evangelicals, uncharitably accuse the book of "excess," "blatant mistranslation...
...them is intended as dramatic improvement on the work of the original scriptwriters, Matthew and Luke. Mary's father, for instance, is crucified for criticizing the government. Joseph's family has come down in the world, its ancestral wealth having been snatched from it by greedy King Herod. Joseph has been an anti-Roman terrorist. When Mary claims to be pregnant with the Messiah, a Jewish court sentences her to death by stoning. In the nick of time, Joseph intervenes to save her, accepting the paternity of the child and a flogging in her stead...
...hemisphere, taking the audience from New York to the South Pole and back up to the other side of the North Pole-all without stopping for lunch and in about 40 seconds. Bell is almost giddy as he lets the machine tumble time back to the reign of Herod and thence to the Adoration of Christ...