Word: judaic
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...available chair with piles of envelopes. At 68, Wolfson can still scramble happily through the debris to look for a book or climb perilously on laden chairs in search of an obscure reprint from the Harvard Theological Review. After a lifetime of research he is considered today the outstanding Judaic scholar in the United States...
...want to study it because here we have a complete, sober and realistic record of the sex life of a people uninhibited by the things that inhibit sex life among people in the U.S. The Mochicas were not conditioned in their sex ual habits and attitudes by Judaic and Christian custom, principle and prejudice, among other things, as we are. My research among these huacos should tell me more about what is natural in sex than my research so far among American men and women...
...Mather noted that "in no country where the Protestant Church has been predominant, has Communism been able to take over the government." The main theme of his talk, completely changed from the one he had planned on "Religion in Higher Education" for the banquet, concerned the close relationship between Judaic-Christian development and the origins of democracy...
...friend's defense with a battery of assistants. Two hundred talesmen were examined before twelve unprejudiced jurymen could be found. "You are here to fix the price of the marriage bed!" roared Associate Defense Attorney John Graham, in a speech so packed with quotations from Othello, Judaic history and Roman law that it lasted two days and later appeared as a book. The jury gave little heed to the prosecution's plea that the case before the court was not adultery but murder. Sickles was acquitted-a national hero...
Thus Commentator Carter afforded at least a partial clue to his increasingly oblique Biblical allusions to the war (calling Hitler "Satan" and the Germans "Assyrians," calling the United Nations the "Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Judaic peoples" and the "Lost Tribes...