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...Jehovah, the God of Moses, was not the God of Abraham. Isaac and Jacob...
...Herbert Gordon May of Oberlin that the religion of the Hebrew patriarchs differed widely from that of Moses, and that Moses himself probably changed Gods during the Children of Israel's 40 years of wandering in the wilderness during the Exodus. In Genesis the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine with Yahweh as their God they undertook...
...junklike jumble of records, the police found bank books showing that Alexander Alexandroff possessed a fortune of about $20,000, also that he had become a U. S. citizen in 1937 under the name of Alexander Isaac Slowly, and owned more property under that name...
Such detective work is not precise enough for Professor Isaac Starr of the University of Pennsylvania. Says he: "The function of the heart is to pump blood, and an engineer investigating a pump which was not working properly would ... begin by estimating the output of the pump directly...
Good example of taleteller's detachment is The Stone of Chastity (Little, Brown; $2.50), a bit of delicate bawdry in a warless, now almost mythical England, written by a Malta-born curlylocks named Margery Sharp, author of The Nutmeg Tree. Professor Isaac Pounce disrupts the village of Gillenham by uncovering a legendary steppingstone from which unchaste lassies, unfaithful wives invariably slip into the brook.* Miss Carmen "Smith," the artists' model, slipped of course; but nobody expected that the stone would reveal the professor's mild nephew, Nicholas, to be a bastard-or that Nicholas would rejoice...