Word: isaiah
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...shooting two South Africans in the head, heroically confesses that he feels "a certain repugnance" toward such necessary bloodshed. Where Bond's nemesis is the satanic spy network SMERSH, Saber's is Shin-Bet, the Israeli counterespionage agency, and especially dark-haired, black-eyed Lieut. Colonel Isaiah Shader. ("A true Semite, that...
...British philosopher Isaiah Berlin once divided thinkers into Hedgehogs and Foxes. The Fox roams freely, a random chaser of unknown intellectual scents, a case of pure curiosity organized only by the zigzag of the hunt. The Hedgehog bounds his territory, reduces it to a unity. He starts with his own terms and squeezes the universe inside them...
...most sensitive passages in any Bible translation are those that deal with doctrine. The N.A.B. retains "virgin" in Isaiah 7:14, considered a prediction of the Virgin Birth, rather than the "young woman" favored by recent Protestant versions. Several footnotes are used to explain verses apparently contradicting the Catholic dogma that Mary and Joseph never had sexual relations even after Jesus was born. One of these states that the New Testament word for the "brothers" of Jesus could mean either blood brothers or merely relatives, but the N.A.B. sides with the latter. In Acts 17:26, the N.A.B. follows other...
...early as the 12th century, Hebrew scholars began to question whether the entire Book of Isaiah was written by the same author. Liberal Scripture scholars have long agreed that there are at least two distinct collections in Isaiah, one comprising the first 39 chapters, the other the remaining 27. Now modern technology has ratified that thesis...
Using an Elliott 503 computer, Yehuda Radday, a lecturer in biblical studies and Hebrew in Haifa, produced a 175-page statistical linguistics analysis of Isaiah. He applied 18 standard tests to measure such features as word length and vocabulary eccentricity. An additional test, devised by Radday, measured Isaiah's war idioms and metaphors. In the first 39 chapters such terms accounted for 8.65% of all nouns, v. only 5.72% in the next 27 chapters -which supports the theory that the first author or group of authors lived during the violent period of the Assyrians, the second during the peaceful...