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...Alexandria 2,200 years ago, a group of 70 Jewish scholars translated the Bible from Hebrew into Greek. Their great work became known to history as the Septuagint, from the Latin word for 70. For adherents of traditional Judaism in later centuries, however, the only true Bible was the Hebrew version. What translations there were lacked official standing; most were turned out by individual translators rather than broadly based committees of scholars...
Though consultants from Judaism's Orthodox, Conservative and Reform branches were involved, the Holy Scriptures is primarily the work of the Jewish Publication Society of America rather than any rabbinical group. The originator of the project was Harry Orlinsky of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Two parts of this Bible were previously published, the Torah (1962) and the Prophets (1978), directed...
...property." The phrase is more like Dennis Rappaport, 36, the gaudier member of the firm, than Mike Jones, 46. Both men seem curiously proud of the nickname, "The Whacko Twins," earned in a number of ways. When their first fighter, black Middleweight Ronnie Harris, converted to Judaism, they sued to allow him to wear his yarmulka in the ring. They lost. When not enough attention was being paid to Harris by the matchmakers at Madison Square Garden, they sent a man around in a gorilla suit. Their boxing backgrounds before 1976: as a child Rappaport was aced...
...attraction like New York, Holly wood or the French Riviera. To their credit, the Israelis do protect the religious places. But it is not merely individual shrines that are sacred; the entire city is holy. An internationalized Jerusalem governed by a commission headed by the chief religious leaders of Judaism, Christianity and Islam would spare the city from further secularization...
Rabbi Jacob J Petuchowski a specialist in Judeo-Christian dialogue and Jewish liturgical traditions, said yesterday he hopes to teach "the Christian theology of Judaism and the Jewish theology of Christianity--how each religion looks upon the other...