Word: metzgers
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...terrifying," said David Metzger, a tourist from New York who was praying at the Wall. "Stones were coming out of the sky and everybody panicked. I could have easily been killed...
...unusual amalgam of crimes and punishments: charges of murder and racism, to be measured by the strictures of tort liability. "Ladies and gentlemen of the jury," intoned civil rights crusader Morris Dees, "we're going to ask you to return a verdict so big that it will put Tom Metzger out of business...
...taking aim at Metzger, 52, and his son John, 22, Dees is trying to cripple an admitted "racial separatist" and leader of a neo-Nazi movement known as the White Aryan Resistance (WAR). Dees, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, was using an unusual weapon: the common-law principle of "vicarious liability," most frequently invoked against employers for their workers' negligence. Simply put, Dees and his fellow lawyers sue national racist organizations on behalf of the families of victims of violent acts, charging that the organizations should incur heavy civil penalties for their indirect role...
...R.S.V. goes its separate way too. Like other modern renderings from the ancient Hebrew and Greek, it systematically abandons the archaic thee and thou forms in addressing God. More important, in the words of the Rev. Bruce Metzger, the chief translator, it circumvents the "inherent bias of the English language toward the masculine gender." During the 1980s the National Council of Churches, in response to insistent feminist demands, published three sets of highly controversial rewrites of certain Bible passages. The texts referred to God as "Father ((and Mother))," inserted women's names that did not appear in the original...
...that have become available since the earlier version appeared. Four sentences based upon one of the Dead Sea Scrolls have been tacked onto Chapter 10 of I Samuel, for instance, and Greek manuscripts provided an optional short ending for Mark. But such substantive changes are surprisingly few, indicating, says Metzger, how reliable the biblical texts were all along...