Word: judaic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard faculty members are endorsement by James McGregor Burns, professor of Political Science at Williams College; Norman Greenwald of the Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandies University; Paul T. Heffron, professor Government and chairman of the Department of Government at Boston University; Earl Latham, '30 professor of Government at Amherst College; John N. Plank '45, professor of Latin American Affairs at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; and Robert C. Wood, professor of Political Science at M.I.T...
...Case, Poetic. Bruinsma himself doubts that there is much relation between the Coffin Text teachings and Judaic morality. But scholars find a delight all its own in the limpid poetry contained in the spells, which suggests something of the sophistication and richness of Egyptian theology. Even Ecclesiastes has little to match the curious beauty of Coffin Text No. 269: "I made the four winds that every man might breathe thereof like his fellow in his time. I made the great inundation that the poor man might have rights like the nobles. I made every man like his fellow...
...lava. At times, March seems to take an actorish delight in playing the Lord, but he is awesome when, with magnetic all-seeing eyes, he probes for Gideon's soul in a speck of human dust. Douglas Campbell can be a simple-minded oaf one minute and a Judaic Henry V the next, and his voice ranges even more remarkably from a love-lyrical caress to a doggish snarl. At one affecting moment, he says simply, "O, I love thee, Lord," and it is like hearing ineffable music carried on clear night air over still water...
...Oedipus. What is the essence of tragedy? Steiner goes back to the two earliest moral visions of man's fate in Western civilization, the Judaic and the Hellenic. In the Judaic view, the universe is a parable of justice. Jehovah is wrathful and awesome, but ultimately fair. In the Greek view, "men's accounts with the gods do not balance." The world is riddled with "mysteries of injustice, disasters in excess of guilt." After his agonizing ordeal, Job "gets back double the number of she-asses; so he should, for God has enacted upon him a parable...
This practical reason can only be understood, Blanshard claimed, "if we take off the distorting spectacles of technological advance." Tracing the development of various ethical systems from their Greek and Judaic sources, he noted that a conflict between reason and feeling has constantly plagued philosophy. Clarks versus Shaftesbury, Hume versus Kant, and, more recently, the emotivists and imperativists versus the deontologists--all represent in their ethical controversies a form of the basic reason-feeling conflict...