Word: isaiah
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Four of the parchments were purchased by the Reverend Athanasius Yeshue Samuel. Archbishop and Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Trans-Jordan. Among the manuscripts were a text of the Book of Isaiah, a commentary on the Book of Habakkok, a sectarian document which codified the rules for one of the old Hebrew tribes, and a fourth, whose nature was unknown...
With reference to Simone Weil [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . she belongs to no religious group. She belongs to the "pure in heart" who alone see God. She belongs, like Isaiah and Jesus, like Schweitzer and Kagawa and Father Damien, to the human race-she belongs...
...held at the beginning of the 20th Century should be either utterly rejected, or at least corrected in the direction of a qualified conservatism ... It is no longer a matter of crucial importance to know whether or not Moses wrote the Pentateuch in its present form, whether or not Isaiah of Jerusalem was responsible for all the chapters of the book which bears his name, whether or not Matthew the publican composed the first canonical gospel...
...prophetic message is summarized in the idea of the Suffering Servant in Isaiah.* The Christians take this to be the foreshadowing of Jesus Christ, but Jewish tradition sees it as the role of the Jews in the world. And the important part of the concept is the word 'servant.' Suffering, too, if necessary-and it often seems to be necessary. But suffering by itself is not enough...
...each group claims a large additional number of unenrolled worshipers. *Among them: U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. *A Jewish woman, at this point in her morning prayers, humbly thanks God that He has created her according to His will. *Oldest and biggest: Hebrew Union College (Reform) in Cincinnati. * E.g., Isaiah 53:3-5: "He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised; and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem...