Word: judean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Avraham Yoffe is undaunted by the problems. He plans another preserve of biblical animals on a hilly, wooded 5,000-acre tract in Galilee. He hopes to stock it with Judean lions, Syrian bears, roc and fallow deer from Iran. Like Noah, he will do his best to ensure that the beasts go forth and multiply. "We wish to live amid life," he says...
...about 100 species of biblical animals, many of them on the verge of extinction. To collect them, Yoffe undergoes almost biblical trials. Arab governments routinely refuse, for political reasons, to sanction the shipment of animals to Israel. Yoffe once got round this problem by paying Bedouin hunters in the Judean hills to catch him 15 Nubian ibexes, one by one. But he still yearns for a pair of wild Arabian oryxes (a kind of antelope), which can now be found mainly on the Arabian peninsula. His chief recourse is to turn to zoos that have the species he wants...
...good academic manners (boys in ties, girls in skirts, no smoking anywhere). But most of the support probably still comes from the millions who read the magazines, follow Roberts on radio or television, and send for free gifts. A typical gift last Christmas was a replica of a Judean oil lamp (with a candle in it); this Easter there will be a plate emblazoned with "He is not here. He is risen." Recipients often decide to send their own monetary gifts in return...
...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 by the Roman procurators during those turbulent years, Yehohanan died slowly and painfully on the cross...