Word: oxford
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...some less momentous issues. In February the Student Council called for reform of the parietal rules, and the rules were changed to the present "Oxford system" -- girls had to be signed in and out, but advance permission was no longer necessary and a third person no longer had to be present...
Protestants and Roman Catholics finally have a translation of a Bible that they can share. Last week Oxford University Press announced that Boston's uncommon ecumenist, Richard Cardinal Cushing, had given his imprimatur to its Oxford Annotated Bible, an edition of the Revised Standard Version that includes elaborate notes and commentary prepared by leading Protestant scholars. The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha-the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics as canonical...
...Oxford Bible approved for Catholics leaves the RSV text and footnotes unchanged; instead, two Catholic scholars-Jesuit Biblicist W. Van Etten Casey of Holy Cross and Father Philip King of St. John's Seminary in Boston-merely made a few additions to the Oxford annotations that were approved by the Bible's Protestant editors. One note, for example, says that according to Catholic doctrine the "brothers" of Jesus mentioned in the Gospels were really other relatives and points out that in Semitic usage the word encompasses a wide variety of blood relations. Another addition explains that the last...
Cushing's imprimatur means that the Oxford Bible can be freely read by Catholics for prayer and study-and use of the RSV even in Catholic worship is not out of the question. Many Catholic ecumenists believe that this Protestant-sponsored translation, which preserves much of the King James Version's stately prose, is the best all-round Bible available today, and one that most Christians can agree upon as an acceptable rendering of God's word...
...been on the Columbia faculty for almost 40 years. He has also lectured at the University of London, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Cornell, Indiana and New York University. He will be Slade Professor of Art at Oxford in 1968. Schapiro is noted for his contributions of the study of medieval painting and sculpture and of nineteenth and twentieth century...