Word: matthew
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...Matthew A. Meselson, associate professor of Biology, who came to Harvard on Feb. 1 from the California Institute of Technology, will teach a course in molecular biology...
Subject of the blast is the theory that the first two chapters of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke are not to be considered as historical, but as what the Jews call a midrash. A midrash is a passage of explanatory commentary on the Scripture -either in analytical, legal terms (Halacha) or dramatic, legendary terms (Haggada). Into the latter category the so-called Midrash Theory puts the Gospel narrative of the birth of Jesus-including such episodes as the angel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin of her miraculous conception, and the beloved story about the journey...
...probable that there is very little history in the second chapter of Matthew. Except as a pious enlargement intended to show the manifestation of Christ to the gentile world, few historical details mentioned in Matthew 2 (including the existence of the Magi) are to be considered credible...
Christendom has produced four great Easter poems: The Divine Comedy, which is Catholic; Bach's Matthew Passion Music, which is Protestant; Goethe's Faust, which is humanist; and Wagner's Parsifal, which is Buddhist with a Christian facade...
...three pieces for public performance can be heard annually; the Matthew Passion here, and Parsifal in New York. Since we are now equipped with the Loeb Theatre, my proposal is an annual performance of Faust, in translation if necessary; at least the First Part, and the Second also in time to come. Both are done in Germany. Yale gave a magnificent performance of Part One in 1949, the bicentenary of Goethe's birth. They made one bad mistake; used a phonograph recording of Holst's The Planets, when they had to hand the rich fare of Faust music, Wagner...