Word: pentateuch
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...investigation of the history of the Pentateuch--the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah--has yielded an insight Kugel considers key to appreciating how Scripture is viewed today...
...investigation of the history of the Pentateuch--the first five books of the Bible, also known as the Torah--has yielded an insight Kugel considers key to appreciating how the Scripture is viewed today...
...judged over time [COVER, Dec. 14]. Was it Katzenberg or others at Disney who had the Midas touch for creating successful animated films? Assessing the box-office appeal of Prince of Egypt is a practical way of answering that question. Perhaps Katzenberg's contribution to improved understanding of the Pentateuch would be to allocate a portion of this film's profits to subsidizing independent scholarly research into the Old Testament characters. The Prince of Egypt's expected income would hardly be dented by funding a substantial annual Moses Prize. DAVID W. FAULKNER Bristol, England
...CLASSIC OF CHILDREN'S literature into a movie can be a thankless task. It's drudge work for the adapters if they are totally faithful to the text. Yet to make any changes can be deemed a sacrilege. To kids, a fairy tale is as sacred as the Pentateuch; it instructs them in the perils and wonders of the world they are just getting used to. Even as adults, they may retain what they believe to be a moral copyright on their memory of favorite stories. Don't dig up my Secret Garden, they protest. Don't abuse my Seuss...
...Paterson, New Jersey, D.W. Griffith is directing a film titled The Call to Arms. Just at the moment the leading lady, Mary Pickford, faints from the unseasonable heat, a few blocks away Presbyterian minister Clarence Arthur Wilmot loses his belief in the Divinity: "the God of the Pentateuch was an absurd bully, barbarically thundering through a cosmos entirely misconceived. There is no such God, nor should there...