Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Diplomats might find in the Bible some intriguing ideas about a possible peace settlement. Isaiah 19: 24, for example, foresees a day in which "Israel [shall be] the third with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth." That could be interpreted as the need for a Cairo-Damascus-Jerusalem federation. Ezekiel 47: 22 could be taken to point out that Israelis have a responsibility not just to Jewish immigrants but to the Palestinian Arabs under their jurisdiction: "The strangers that sojourn among you . . . they shall be unto you as the homeborn, [and] they shall have...
...caves collection, ten scrolls and 600 scroll fragments in all, includes a full text of Isaiah and portions of all other Old Testament books except Esther. Thus the scrolls have substantiated the reliability of traditional Bible texts and have aided new translations. Other documents such as the "Thanksgiving Psalms" and the Temple Scroll were unique to the sect. All in all, the scrolls have greatly expanded knowledge about ancient Judaism and the backdrop against which Christianity developed...
...Addis Ababa, a senior military officer pulled down a copy of The Living Bible from his library shelves one evening recently and began reading from a chapter in Isaiah.* "Israel's kings will be like babies, ruling childishly. And the worst sort of anarchy will prevail, everyone trampling on someone else, neighbors fighting neighbors, youths revolting against authority, criminals sneering at honorable men." He paused and said sadly: "That is precisely the situation we now have in this country...
Bruce-Biggs concurs: "The neo-Malthusians would have us be more generous and unselfish and less greedy and materialistic. No decent man would disagree, but are they more persuasive than Confucius, Buddha, Isaiah, or Jesus Christ? Have computers greater authority than Scripture...
Krister Stendhal steps down as dean of the Divinity School, saying, "If God had intended me to stay on, He wouldn't have had President Bok ask me to retire." In his search for Stendhal's successor, Bok is reported to be considering Robert Moses, Deane Lord, Jesus Alou, Isaiah Robertson, Frank Church, Adam Clayton Powell and Yves Montand...