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...Shalom, the ancient city's largest synagogue. A little more than an hour into prayers in the temple's cool, newly white-washed interior, the reader began reciting the verses of Deuteronomy 16. Among the lines is the well-known biblical injunction "Justice, justice shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism Massacre in the Synagogue | 9/15/1986 | See Source »

This time of year thou mayest in Casey Stengel behold a lot of the old juice. As he has for the past 52 years, "the perfessor," 75, arrived for spring training, flying to the New York Mets' camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., where he started a verbal pepper game with the press. Though he retired as Mets manager in 1965, Case still works as their West Coast scout, and after looking over the lads, he announced: "The future of this here ball club is brighter." For one thing, said Case, there is Tommy Davis, acquired from the Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 17, 1967 | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

Occasionally the Bible led him to a site that demanded digging. He had long been fascinated by a verse describing the Promised Land as a place "whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass." The word brass seems to be a mistranslation for copper, and though Palestine was not noted for producing the metal, Glueck trusted his Biblical Baedeker and kept looking for signs of ancient copper mining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Shards of History | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...majestic questions ever posed. Out of many a U. S. radio two Sundays ago issued sounds of a wind machine and the voice of an actor impersonating God: Shall he who contendeth with the Almighty instruct him? . . . Wilt thou disannul my judgment, Job? Wilt thou condemn me, that thou mayest be righteous? . . . Hast thou an arm like God, Job? Canst thou thunder with a voice like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God on the Air | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Exodus, 32: 25-26. And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing. ... - Leviticus, 20: 17. I counsel thee to buy . . . white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear. . . . -Revelation, 3: 18. In the Bible there are nearly 100 such references to nakedness. Last week they were cited by the indignant elders of 223-year-old Ponds Reformed Church in Oakland, N. J., in a solemn resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bible v. Nudism | 10/23/1933 | See Source »

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