Word: judean
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peace process is being crippled by several factors. Israel's refusal, whether right or wrong, to cede certain parts of the Judean mountains because of their strategic importance in protecting against foreign attack is one of many obstacles, along with Netanyahu's acrobatic effort to appease the Israeli far right while brokering a pull-out from Israeli-occupied territory. Meanwhile, Palestinian negotiating potential has been damaged by the acts of extremists who prefer tactics of terror to dealing peaceably with the Israelis...
...takes the Gospel According to Matthew fewer than 50 lines to deal with Jesus' 40 days in the wilderness, about double the length of the following un-King Jamesian summary: the newly baptized Galilean retreats to the Judean desert where he is mocked and enticed by the devil; Jesus does not take the bait; he won't turn stones into bread because man does not live by bread alone; he won't jump from the temple tower to prove his divinity because it is forbidden to presume God's protection; finally, he rejects the Faustian bargain--the world's riches...
Chalcolithic smiths had determined that naturally occurring arsenic-laced copper was shinier and easier to work than the unalloyed metal. The discovery contributed to the extraordinary beauty of their ceremonial objects, jewelry and vessels, exemplified by the Judean desert treasures -- a cache of objects found in a cave in 1961. "Their art was versatile, so beautiful, so different from anything that came before or after," says Miriam Tadmor, senior curator at Jerusalem's Israel Museum. Indeed, in the opinion of her colleague Osnat Misch, "the culture of the later Bronze Age was inferior aesthetically...
...consultant with the Nature Conservancy in Boulder, "you need to know what the original looked like." Historical records can provide valuable insights. Passages from the Old Testament, for instance, have helped Israeli restorationists re-create biblical landscapes at Neot Kedumim, a 220-hectare (545-acre) nature reserve in the Judean hills. In similar fashion, the diaries of a 19th century doctor have provided Illinois ecologists with a list of plants that once flourished under the light shade of bur oak trees...