Word: isaiah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholars who favor the entrenched J.E.P.D. theory, partly because he deals exclusively with linguistic criteria and ignores stylistic variations. Radday is no right-wing ideologue, however. Earlier he earned wide acclaim when his whirring computers supported the conventional theory that multiple authors produced the books of Judges, Zechariah and Isaiah. Says Radday: "These scholars can't have it both ways, approving a method when it suits them, and repudiating it when it does...
...cites Isaiah Berlin's study "The Hedgehog and the Fox," which takes its title from a quotation from Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, the hedgehog one big thing...
...Isaiah Berlin once wrote that greatness is the ability to transform paradox into platitude...
...Shakespeare, Goethe, Dostoyevsky-we have nobody comparable to these men in our age. You can live ten lives on them, and the remarkable thing is that they are more relevant to the present than any man in the present. Progress! Fiddlesticks! Who has progressed from the Psalms, or from Isaiah or Jeremiah, or from the New Testament...
...plus two will always equal four, says a math lesson, just as "Thou shalt not kill" will always mean thou shalt not kill. In high school economics, students are taught the need to return to the gold standard-on biblical authority. (To buttress their policy academy economics teachers cite Isaiah 1: 22, "Thy silver has become dross, thy wine mixed with water.") The academy proudly reports measurable results of this curriculum, taught in strict classrooms by teachers who view their work not as a job but as a calling: the five-year-olds, who attend for only half-days, read...