Word: isaiah
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...Elliott 503 computer may at first appear to be a curious tool for the serious Bible student. In this case, though, it seemed the only way to resolve a centuries-old dispute (see RELIGION, "Isaiah and the Computer...
Though he is broad-minded in some areas of theology (he is a graduate of liberal Colgate Rochester Divinity School), Jackson has a view of the Negro recalling the old-fashioned suffering servant image from Isaiah. Christianity, he argues, permits protest against unjust laws but not rebellion against civil order. "The difference between Negro Christians and white Christians." says Jackson, "is the meaning of the cross of Jesus Christ. Our forefathers were cross-bearers. They believed in it. You can't build a great church preaching hate, envy, and revenge, and sending the people out on the street after...
Ambiguous Isaiah. Some clarifications are bound to be controversial. "Thou shalt not kill" has become "you shall not commit murder"-thus depriving some pacifists of their principal Old Testament support. But the translators maintain that their reading is closer to the original Hebrew. There may be less quarrel with the N.E.B. rendering of Isaiah 7: 14, which in the King James Version ("a virgin shall conceive") had clearly prefigured the Virgin birth of Christ. Now, the meaning is more ambiguous: "A young woman is with child, and she will bear a son, and will call him Immanuel." But the R.S.V...
...Northwestern. As for the campaign, Tex says firmly: "I'll discuss the issues. Of course, I'll always have the guitar in the car if somebody wants to hear something." ··· "I have given you to be a light unto the nations," proclaims Isaiah 42:6. And since Isaiah is the favorite prophet of that light unto Israel, David Ben-Gurion, a Swiss company used 42-6 as the title of a film on the patriarch's life. It was the first movie that Ben-Gurion, 83, had ever sat all the way through. Said...
...tall white candle, flanked them. As Archimandrite Polykarpos Athanassion intoned the solemn Greek of the nuptial liturgy, Jackie and Ari exchanged rings and wreaths of lemon blossoms, and drank wine from a single chalice. Then the priest led them round a table three times in the ritual dance of Isaiah. Traditionally in the dance, one of the newlyweds steps on his (or her) partner's foot to signify who will command in the marriage. None of the 25 guests admitted seeing such one-foot-upmanship...