Word: pentateuchal
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...full version of this "metabiological pentateuch," as Shaw called it, had been staged only four times in five decades. Thus the National Theater production, directed by Clifford Williams with Donald MacKechnie, is by definition a major event, and may be pardoned for exuding some of the earnestness of being important...
Wine & Olives. Also contained in the scroll are lengthy statements of halakoth, or religious laws-many of which are found in the Pentateuch, but some new to Biblical scholars. One such regulation, for example, provides for the death penalty for traitors caught spying against the people of Israel. In addition to the annual feast of grains, or Shavuot, the scroll summons the Jewish people to celebrate hitherto unknown feasts of wine and oil following the grape and olive harvests. There are also many sentences insisting upon the need for ritual purity...
...stunted Catholic intellectual development for a generation. Biblical experts were particularly suspect. For years Catholic exegetes were required to abide by the conservative judgments of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, set up at the beginning of the century; among its dicta was the ruling that Moses authored the Pentateuch-even though it contains an account of his death clearly penned centuries later. Not until Pius XII's 1943 encyclical, Divino Afflante Spiritu, were Catholic Biblicists able to study Scripture with the same freedom enjoyed by their Protestant counterparts...
...intricate science of running a large corporation than any other living American.* He has now committed much of that knowledge to paper with the help of FORTUNE Editor John McDonald. My Years with General Motors, published last week after five years of preparation, is nothing less than a modern Pentateuch of management technique that has revelations for every executive-and everyone who aspires to be an executive...
Without question, Wisconsin is now the most rigidly fundamentalist of all Lutheran groups. All pastors must teach that the Bible cannot err even in details, that God created the world in six 24-hour days, that Moses was the author of the Pentateuch. Wisconsin churches hardly ever join with other Christian groups in sponsoring civic projects. But "we aren't ogres," says Pastor James Schaefer of Milwaukee's Atonement Church. "We enjoy a martini once in a while, and some of us even say 'dammit' from time to time...