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...morphine and a mercy killing. The doctor's wife had married him on the rebound when the man she really loved jilted her. This erstwhile suitor in turn became a Dominican friar, and to him Author Stolpe devotes a lengthy subplot. Father Perezcaballero is the bedeviled Graham Greene priest of the mislaid vocation. A brilliant preacher-intellectual, he has every gift but faith, all knowledge but that of the dimensions of his own pride. Brought to an appalled recognition of his vanity and emptiness, Perezcaballero somehow enables the dying Kansdorf to find God in a mystical crucifixion reverie while...
...Milik's colleague, Frank Cross, holds that a more plausible Wicked Priest is Jonathan's brother Simon, who issued a decree (I Maccabees 14: 27-47) that established his descendants, the Hasmonean dynasty, as High Priests in perpetuity, also gave them permission "to stamp out, indeed to persecute, those who refuse to recognize the full legitimacy of his office. This program seems to give the appropriate occasion for the crystallization of the Essene sect." Cross finds further evidence for this identification in a Qumran document that quotes Joshua's curse upon Jericho and follows it with...
...Promptly, John Hyrcanus switched his favor to the pro-Hellenistic Sadducees and the Pharisaic observances were forbidden. It is not hard to imagine, according to some scholars, that a strict-thinking band of Pharisees heard in outspoken Eleazar the voice of a prophet, and fled with him from Wicked Priest Hyrcanus into the desert. ¶Alexander Janneus (103-76 B.C.), son of Hyrcanus, makes an appealing Wicked Priest to some experts. He revenged himself for a Pharisee-led uprising by crucifying 800 leaders of the revolt in a single night and having their wives and children slaughtered before their dying...
...convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return of the Teacher, but such an idea contains no suggestion that the Teacher was a figure comparable to Jesus Christ...
Italy, from top to toe, is a vast museum containing some of the greatest monuments of Western civilization. But it is rapidly becoming one of the world's most ill-kept storehouses of classic art. ¶ In Venice, the parish priest of the 12th century church of San Felice, off the Grand Canal, was forced to stop in mid-Mass last spring as cracks suddenly opened across the church nave walls, showering the congregation with plaster. Near by, the floor of world-famed San Marco is sinking, Santo Stefano is developing its own leaning tower, scores of palazzos...