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...other traditional favorites—Literature and Arts C-70: “From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, From the Old Testament to Christianity” and Life Sciences 1b, which focuses on genetics—made the top-five list again. Both courses saw increases in enrollment compared to a year ago: from 270 to 433 for the Bible course, and from 336 to 378 for Life Sciences...
...ended his career. In 1990, as editor in chief of the project to translate the Dead Sea Scrolls, esteemed biblical scholar John Strugnell was under pressure to speed up the Scrolls' publication. In an interview, Strugnell, who had started studying the Scrolls four decades earlier at age 23, called Judaism a "horrible religion" and "Christian heresy." In the furor that followed, his family disclosed he was battling manic depression and alcoholism. Though he was the first editor to include Jewish scholars in the translation project--and he insisted he was not anti-Semitic--Strugnell was fired and irreparably discredited...
...defendants in the Liberty City case (named after the poor Miami neighborhood where they lived), were members of the Moorish Science Temple, a sect that blends Islam, Christianity and Judaism and does not recognize the legitimacy of the U.S. government. (Moorish Science Temple leaders have since disavowed any links to the men.) On March 16, 2006, the men were recorded by the FBI vowing to be Islamic soldiers and to act at the direction of al-Qaeda, according to a motion filed by the government, which played the tape twice during the trial...
...Strugnell’s time at the crest of his career abruptly ended in 1990, when he made negative comments about Judaism in an interview with the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz...
...noted scholar made his mark as a part of the original team working on the Dead Sea Scrolls, documents concerning the history of Judaism and the origins of Christianity that were discovered in the caves near the Dead Sea from...