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This translation will be more radical than a Revised Standard Version or a competent sermon explaining Scripture. It will have to be the translation which Paul accomplished when he gave Jesus to the non-Judaic world, or the transla tion accomplished by Aquinas, who incorporated the systematic requirements of medieval metaphysics. It will, perhaps, be a translation as radical as that given Judaism by Jesus, or the Veda by Gotama...
Today Brandeis has coeducational undergraduate schools in the humanities, social and natural sciences and the creative arts. In its graduate school 132 students are working for advanced degrees in everything from microbiology to Judaic studies. "We will add professional schools.'' says Sachar, "when we can be sure of making them measure up to the highest standards." But however much Brandeis grows, Sachar wants its students to be a true cross section of the U.S. population. "Diversification," says he, "is necessary if we are to fulfill the purpose for which the school was founded-to be a university where...
...Chasm. Measuring man's religions with this rule, Toynbee finds the modern world riven by a gulf even deeper and wider than that between the Communist and non-Communist worlds, namely, the chasm between "the whole Judaic group of ideologies and religions" on the one hand and the "Buddhaic group" (Hinduism, the Mahayana and Hinayana forms of Buddhism) on the other. For the East, like ancient Greece, sees history as cyclical, recurrent, and hence irrelevant, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam see it governed by Intellect and Will, i.e., God. But in assigning history this divine importance, they "have reopened...
...spirit of the Indian religions, blowing where it listeth, may perhaps help to winnow a traditional Pharisaism out of Moslem, Christian and Jewish hearts. But the help that God gives is given by Him to those who help themselves; and the spiritual struggle in the more exclusive-minded Judaic half of the world to cure ourselves of our family infirmity [i.e., self-centeredness] seems likely to be the most crucial episode in the next chapter of the history of Mankind...
...Moslem terrorists in North Africa against our British and French allies, without whom we are not supposed to be able to stand alone, or of the Greek cause of the Christian terrorists on Cyprus against the British or of the Arab cause of the Moslem Semites against the Judaic Semites in Israel? I think not. Lawrence Dennis