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Pyramids & Polemics. Das Kapital's sheer size-three volumes and more than 2,000 pages-is almost enough to endow it with a religious aura. The work, says British Historian Isaiah Berlin, "has been blindly worshiped and blindly hated by millions who have not read a line of it, or have read without understanding its obscure and tortuous prose." Since 1917, more than 6,000,000 copies of it have been printed in the Soviet Union. Yet the Albanians, who have been Communists for two dec ades, managed to do without it until last year, when they published...
...Even some Arabs grudgingly agree with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban's contention that "the city can breathe with two lungs again." But until a permanent diplomatic solution is reached-and that will not be soon-it seems unlikely that the world has yet heard an answer to Isaiah's anguished prayer: "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended...
...reconstitution of his body?-but he insists that there is no justification for dismissing it as legend. The fact of the Resurrection, he declares, was one of the primitive elements of Christian teaching, and its conceptual possibility is foreshadowed in apocalyptic passages of the Old Testament-notably in Isaiah 26:19. Pannenberg further argues that the Resurrection is God's proof to man that biological death is not the end to existence, and that there is an ultimate meaning and purpose to history...
...repelling the planned Arab invasion of Israel, we are now preparing to welcome the friendly invasion of visitors from all parts of the world." Greece's Olympic Airways last week issued an invitation in an ad that showed a Boeing 707 draped with an olive branch and quoted Isaiah: ". . . and there shall be war no more...
...vision. The problem for U.S. policymakers is that the Arabs see no room for Israeli fig trees anywhere in the Middle East; they remain committed to destroying the little country. For their part, the Israelis have no intention of following the advice of Micah and another favorite Johnsonian prophet-Isaiah-and beating their swords into plowshares. "Return your swords to your scabbards," said Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan last week, "but keep them ever ready, for the time has not yet come when you can beat them into plowshares...