Word: israel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unearthed, bearing inscriptions in Latin and Hebrew, whose face value indicated that Roman Jews had penetrated to Arizona in 760 A. D. and founded a kingdom lasting into the Tenth Century. Mormons rejoiced, saying that this chronology coincided with their sacred accounts of the Lamanites, a lost tribe of Israel, whose religion Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were divinely commanded to resurrect. Historians viewed askance the use of the initials "A.D." (Anno Domini) in the inscriptions. This calendar term was first suggested in 775 by the English scholiast, Bede; came into general use about 1000. In January, a retired cattleman...
Died. Dr. Max Kahn, 39, discoverer of "intarvin," a remedy for diabetes; at Beth Israel Hospital, Manhattan, where he was Director of Laboratories...
...Israel Hoffman...
...Chairman of the debate will be Professor Israel L. Winter, who is Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at the University. The Judges have been chosen as follows: Professor C. Edmund Neil, Professor of Psychology of Speech at Boston University, Mr. Ernest J. King, of the Boston Transcript, and the Reverend W. R. Leslie, of the St. Mark's Methodist-Episcopal Church in Brookline...
...specimens may be mentioned from the Babylonian-Assyrian Room. Of casts we find the Babylonian code of Laws, promulgated nearly a thousand years before Moses, by Hammurabi (the Amraphel of Genesis XIV); Jehu, King of Israel (2 KI, IX); bowing in submission to an Assyrian conqueror; Sennacherib on his fateful Palestinian campaign (2 Kl, XVIII; Isa, XXXVI); the Assyrian story of the Deluge, parallel to Genesis VI IX,; an Assayrian protecting spirit, with the body of a lion, wings of an eagle, horns of a bull, and head of man, similar to the composite creatures described by Ezekiel, Assyrian...