Word: judaisms
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DIED. Samuel Sandmel, 68, scholar, lecturer and internationally recognized authority on the New Testament and its relation to Judaism; in Cincinnati. A Navy chaplain during World War II and the author of 17 books (including We Jews and You Christians, in which he examined the common roots of the two religions) Sandmel, a native Ohioan, lectured on Jewish literature at Vanderbilt University before joining Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he taught for 26 years...
Jensen's studies of IQ may or may not be valid; however, TIME's allusion to the Jews as being the smartest race on earth completely contradicts basic scientific knowledge. The Jews are not a race but are one of the world's myriad religions. Indeed, Judaism includes in its numbers individuals of many different races, including black, Oriental and Caucasian...
...right course. He sees his own past not as that of a victim but as that of some one who took part in the bitterness of humanity. He recalls being bullied in France by Jewish children who did not think that he acted Jewish enough. Later he sneered at Judaism with the rest of his Catholic classmates at Montlu...
...would not exclude such a resurrection as within the range of possibility," says a visiting professor of New Testament studies at West Germany's Gottingen University. Nothing surprising in that, except for the fact that the scholar in question is Pinchas Lapide, an Orthodox Jew. Over the centuries Judaism has considered Jesus to be no more than a great teacher...
...centuries before Jesus was born, Lapide points out, Judaism began believing in a future, generalized resurrection of believers, which became a tenet of Orthodoxy. In addition, the Jewish tradition includes six accounts of God reawakening the dead, three of them in the Old Testament (I Kings 17: 22, II Kings 4: 35 and 13: 21). Lapide sees no religious reason why Jesus could not have been the seventh "dead Jew revived by the will of God," although the New Testament describes Jesus' resurrected body as having a changed nature...