Word: philologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RARE CONVERSION, A JAPANESE SCHOLAR BECOMES A JEW. Though there are virtually no Jews in Japan, and Judaism is traditionally opposed to proselytizing, Philologist Setsuzau Kotsuji took the Jewish faith-after trying Shinto, Buddhism and Christianity-was circumcized at the age of 60. See RELIGION...
Gradually Professor Loureiro won the Xetás' confidence, returning season after season to talk with them through Koi. He made taped records of their speech, whose strange sounds seem to blend with the calls and cries of the jungle. Said Czech Philologist Cestmir Loukotka, who studied the tapes: "It is an entirely new language. The Xetás are a people apart, with a culture and ethnic consciousness of their own, a Stone Age remnant now unique in the world...
Under energetic President Henry Pitney Van Dusen, pioneer of the ecumenical movement, Union's topflight faculty includes Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr (vice president of the seminary) and John C. Bennett, Philologist James Muilenburg, such noted preachers as Methodist Dr. Ralph Sockman and Riverside Church's Dr. Robert James McCracken. But maintaining such a faculty, as well as housing a student body that includes more and more women and children (46% of Union's seminarians are married), is posing a problem...
Springing directly from the hearts of the people, balladry is a form of human expression that contains "beauty, truth, and relevance." Since it is transmitted orally, balladry provides important clues to the history of the epic; the late Milman Parry, a Harvard philologist, devoted his energy to the recording of Yugoslavian folk ballads of legendary heroes from the lips of tavern minstrels...
...stirred up perhaps the most vigorous debate in Christianity since Darwin. One faction, headed by French Orientalist André Dupont-Sommer (whose views were popularized in the U.S. by Amateur Scrollman Edmund Wilson), held that the Dead Sea Community more than Bethlehem might have been the cradle of Christianity. Philologist John Allegro of Britain's University of Manchester strongly implied that the scrolls put into question the uniqueness of Jesus. At the other extreme were theologians who summarily dismissed the scrolls as having no major importance to Christianity...