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...search for identity begins and ends in the dry hills of ancient Judea...
Paley's fiction is intensely urban. Most of her stories are about women in domestic circumstances. In Faith in the Afternoon, a harried housewife goes to visit her parents at the Children of Judea home for the aged near Coney Island and learns that the generation gap is measured in inches. In Wants, a woman concludes that her 27-year marriage ended mostly because of her lack of simple, binding covetousness...
...Hairy Star." According to some biblical interpretations, a bright comet appeared over Judea around 7 B.C. shortly before the birth of Jesus. Oracles told King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared...
...only solution left under C.I.C. standards may be literally to heed the words of that radical young Jewish rabbi in 1st century Judea: "Go, sell everything you have, give to the poor and come, follow...
...time of great unrest and turmoil in ancient Judea. Restive under the rule of pagan Rome, the Jews of Palestine in the 1st century A.D. repeatedly defied their conquerors with covert gestures of opposition and open acts of rebellion. The Roman response was usually swift and cruel. Perhaps because he participated in one of these uprisings or committed some other grievous offense in the eyes of Jerusalem's stern rulers, a young Judean named Yehohanan (a Hebrew form of John) was sentenced to death. Like thousands of other Jews-including Jesus of Nazareth -who were also condemned...