Word: messiahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Solomon's Throne. Barzilai was delighted. But when his wife grew worse instead of better, he went around to Rabbi Barti again. What he heard this time was even more wonderful. "I have been told by the angels," said the rabbi, "that you are the Messiah, and once this is established you will be able to help your wife yourself." To prove that he was not lying, Barti took an oath on the Torah that all he had said was true...
...Akir to 18 months in jail. Mourned the man who would be king of the Jews: "I'm not sore about the loss of the money, and I don't feel the messianic call any more, but I am really sorry that I'm not the Messiah...
...cash-register receipt). Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera opens this week with Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, while in Fergus Falls, Minn. (pop. 14,000) a bravura rendering of Norwegian folk songs was given by a 70-voice male chorus, and 300 citizens were studying Handel's Messiah for a Christmas performance...
...answer is to be found in the similarities between the theology of the people Paul was addressing (as it can be deduced from Paul's arguments) and the known theology of the Dead Sea sect. The Essenes believed in the ascendancy of the priestly over the royal Messiah, and Paul emphasized Jesus' priestly qualities. The Essenes set great store by the apocalyptic role of the angels, and Paul lays emphasis on Jesus' superiority over angels...
...disjointed welter of plots occasionally departs from animal husbandry to dwell upon balmy Santa Marta's social and racial ferments. It seems that the happy islanders, almost all of some Negro ancestry, sometimes get irritated by the snootiness of the British colonial plantation owners. Their self-seeking messiah (played like a talking totem pole by Singer Harry Belafonte) is trying to improve their lot by shaking hands with all of them, sullenly muttering into his champagne at white folks' garden parties, making louder speeches over coconut milk about his dedication to equality and self-government. Belafonte...