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...Edward Robinson, an orientalist at New York City's Union Theological Seminary. In 1837 and 1852 he journeyed to Palestine and identified hundreds of ancient sites by questioning Arabs, who had preserved the traditional names for centuries. Robinson pinpointed Masada. He found a monumental arch supporting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. "He did more than anybody before or after for biblical topography," says Magen Broshi, curator emeritus of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...Chapel Hill, summed up many of their commonly held positions. The oldest books of the Old Testament, he declared with Pope-like confidence, weren't written until the Israelites were in exile in Babylon, after 587 B.C. There was no Moses, no crossing of the sea, no revelation on Mount Sinai...
...engineer the way a group of people live when this group does not want engineering. Such laws can easily (and there are innumerable precedents in history) degenerate into a tyranny of the majority by those who believe everyone's morality fell out of the sky and landed on Mount Sinai, and those who don't. Unlike what Lat said, we should a priori be skeptical and hesitant toward laws which restrict the freedom of a group which wants to be left alone. --Joshua E. Seims...
RABIN'S ASSASSINATION ONLY CONFIRMS how necessary his vision of peace is: too many years of war and terrorism have begun to poison Israel's national spirit. The nation must have peace in this generation, or hatred will destroy the country from within. EILEEN JOYCE Mount Pleasant, South Carolina...
...headaches continue to mount for House Speaker Newt Gingrich. TIME's Viveca Novak reports that documents filed by the Federal Election Commission pose "what could be a grave threat to Gingrich's career, providing the strongest evidence yet that Gingrich may have improperly used GOPAC to support his own political rise and to engineer the eventual Republican takeover of the House. Thousands of pages of damaging tape transcripts, internal memos and other records show that GOPAC was focused on specific national races in the late 1980s and 1990. That is potentially devastating evidence in support of the FEC's charges...