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Dole can be expected to take special care with his choice, and not only because he would be the oldest U.S. President in history if elected. Dole was a vice-presidential nominee himself 20 years ago, and his aides hope to score a big preconvention boost when the nominee announces his decision. While his aides have yet to compile even the slimmest of dossiers on the likely prospects, an organizing principle is emerging. The race will be won and lost in the middle-class suburbs and ethnic enclaves of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey. Holding those precincts means winning...
...sort. The events that have led him finally to sit at his father's right hand constitute a story of human frailty and redemption, of the burden of being the son of a famous and charismatic father, and of the politics and jealousies and battle for power in the oldest and most influential evangelical organization in the world...
...Search for Jesus" included a page on the book I wrote with Matthew d'Ancona, Eyewitness to Jesus, about papyrus fragments that are the oldest bits of St. Matthew's Gospel. While it is encouraging that you gave our research such prominence, your article could mislead readers. It is not my opinion that a papyrus of St. Luke's Gospel in a Paris library "was written between A.D. 63 and A.D. 67." That papyrus, certainly the oldest of this Gospel, belongs to the late 1st or early 2nd century. The approximate dates of the four oldest Gospel papyri...
...turns out, public impressions of what is the tallest or the largest or the oldest are not decided by precise measurements. Once the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower were built, for instance, I thought that those of us who pride ourselves on our accuracy should begin referring to the Empire State Building as "the third tallest building in the Greater New York area." Nobody else seemed to think that...
Specialists had long assumed that the Magdalen Papyrus was written sometime in the mid-to-late 2nd century A.D. Now, however, German papyrologist Carsten Peter Thiede has startled the rarefied world of biblical scholarship by arguing that the papyruses are actually the oldest extant fragments of the New Testament, dating from about A.D. 70. Thiede's thesis, if correct, means St. Matthew's Gospel, as well as Mark's (on which it is based, in part), is not the secondhand account of Evangelists who were separated by decades from the Jesus of history. Instead, it reflects eyewitness testimony by near...