Word: isaiah
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...part of the city was spared. Shells hit near Premier Eshkol's home and in the garden of the King David Hotel. The glass panes in the Israel Museum were blasted out, and the Isaiah Scroll, most complete of all the Dead Sea Scrolls, was hastily moved into its underground vault. Most of the famed Chagall stained-glass windows in the Hadassah Medical Center's synagogue were taken down in time, but a hole was blasted in one. Wrote Chagall from France: "I am not worried about the windows, only about the safety of Israel. Let Israel be safe...
...professors, French Dominican Roland de Vaux, is head of the international committee translating the scrolls into modern languages. De Vaux also headed the 36 scholars who prepared the Bible de Jérusalem, the first translation to take advantage of the scrolls' discoveries, including an early script of Isaiah. Located near the Damascus Gate, on the spot where Christianity's first martyr, St. Stephen, was stoned to death, L'Ecole Biblique currently has 42 postgraduate scriptural students enrolled. Most of them are Catholic priests, but Protestants are always welcome to use its facilities. The scholars...
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...Wynn, who died of throat cancer last week at 79, had been opening doors in a funny way ever since he was a kid in Philadelphia. Then he was Isaiah Ed win Leopold, who used to upset his mil liner father by putting on ladies' hats and mincing around the showroom like a prospective customer. At 16, he split his middle name in two and became Ed Wynn, and soon he was "The Boy with the Funny Hats" - a turn in which he twisted a trick fedora into 28 shapes...