Word: jonathan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Judas Maccabeus was succeeded in 160 B.C. by his brother Jonathan, who eventually assumed the office of High Priest as well. Another theory identifies him as the Wicked Priest, since he outraged the religious purists by usurping the priesthood. Scholar Milik holds to this view, citing further the Scrolls' presentation of the Wicked Priest as having rebuilt Jerusalem and been captured and put to death; the known history of Jonathan satisfies both these conditions...
...Milik's colleague, Frank Cross, holds that a more plausible Wicked Priest is Jonathan's brother Simon, who issued a decree (I Maccabees 14: 27-47) that established his descendants, the Hasmonean dynasty, as High Priests in perpetuity, also gave them permission "to stamp out, indeed to persecute, those who refuse to recognize the full legitimacy of his office. This program seems to give the appropriate occasion for the crystallization of the Essene sect." Cross finds further evidence for this identification in a Qumran document that quotes Joshua's curse upon Jericho and follows it with...
...last for a while, and the record of Cinderella -issued well in advance of the show-was selling this week at the clip of a Broadway-hit album. However reminiscent of other Rodgers' works, the score had warmth and plenty of whirl to propel dancers through Choreographer Jonathan Lucas' gay patterns in a slick production handsomely set and costumed by William and Jean Eckhart...
...specialist in 18th-century literature, Bullitt is the author of Jonathan Swift and the Anatomy of Satire, published in 1953, and is now working on a study of Henry Fielding and a history of English satire...
...Miss Bingham uses the dramatic technique, Jonathan Kozol does not, at least so far as I am concerned. I am quite sure that there is a plot in his novel, but it is not clear upon one reading, and that reading does not inspire another. There are striking passages in this phantasy of juveniles, and there are yards of obscure phrases and intentions just waiting for a clever explicator with a firm feeling for the Freudian groundrules...