Word: isaiah
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...youthful Jewish protest against social inequity is a valid, idealistic continuation of the "prophetic rebellion" that began in 7th century Israel. He may be right, but not many parents are finding it easy to accept the idea that their son the revolutionary is in the ideological line of Hosea, Isaiah and Jeremiah...
...houses: "Nowhere is decay or unwholesome poverty apparent." It is not apparent today, but there all the same are migrant labor camps, like the Cutchogue settlement for potato workers, whose four grey-painted World War I barracks house itinerant teams of Florida, Arkansas, Virginia or New Jersey farm hands. Isaiah, 35, the crew chief, is a diminutive Negro from Florida who tools around the camp in a late-model Cadillac, earning his daily bread from a 10% surcharge on each worker's hourly wage, plus his own earnings as a laborer. Unlike his predecessor at Cutchogue, whose wife held...
...will come in glory to the Last Judgment. This is a basic premise of faith, but it is equally true that Jesus was emphatically a man-a lowly carpenter who walked the earth of Palestine at a specific moment in human history, and whose death fulfilled Isaiah's prophesy of the Suffering Servant. Jesus, as Bonhoeffer memorably put it, was "the man for others...
...millimeter thick, the parchment is in extremely fragile condition; insects had begun to gnaw at its fringes, and the outer portion, said Yadin, looked like "melted chocolate." Unrolled, the scroll measures 28 ft. 3 in. in length, more than four feet longer than Qumran's complete scroll of Isaiah...
True to the South's Protestant tradition, Nat's fundamentalism is based on the Old Testament. He quotes frequently the verses of Isaiah. With white people, he talks in a subdued nigger-rhetoric fitting for a pious black Baptist minister (which he is). With other houses slaves his tone is slightly more relaxed, and with field Negroes (whom he holds in disdain) it becomes much more Sambo-ish. The juxtaposition of Nat speaking in several of his roles can at times be very amusing, and at other times--as when he speaks in an inferior style before less intelligent white...