Word: prophetizer
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...that series on Pearson now running in another famous publication [the Satevepost's "Confessions of an S.O.B."], it seems to me your esteemed contemporary misses the point. To paraphrase that old vaudeville joke-it isn't so much a question of who called that political prophet a so-and-so; the real point is who called that so-and-so a political prophet...
...open to question-the fact remains that it is dramatically unsound. While Charlton Heston, who plays Moses, and Anne Baxter, the princess, unquestionably make a handsome couple, their embraces shed no light on the problem of how Moses, portrayed as on the threshold of the Egyptian throne, becomes a prophet and the deliverer of an enslaved race. Like the spectacle, the romance only obscures the central problem of the story...
Historic Claims. "And the words of Isaiah the Prophet were fulfilled," he began. "In that day shall the Egyptians be like unto women, and they shall tremble with fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of Hosts, which He shaketh over them." Practically laying claim to the whole Sinai peninsula (he had not invaded "Egypt proper"), Ben-Gurion pronounced the 1949 armistice lines with Egypt "dead," and called upon that government to discuss peace "under conditions of direct negotiations." No force, "whatever it is called," was going to make Israel evacuate Sinai...
...bursting with newly won freedom and touched with the spirit of change. For the first time, Christian and Moslem face each other on equal ground and with mutual need. It is high time, says Author Cragg, for Christians to re-examine their relationship with the children of the Prophet...
...thorough acquaintance with the Bible. He was ignorant of the meaning of the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and the sonship of Christ. To him Christ seemed a rival of the One God, and that Mohammed could not accept. Accordingly he reduced Christ to the status of one prophet among many and gave him a few brief pages in the Koran. Even today Moslems refuse to consider Christianity a monotheistic faith because of this early misreading of Christ. Nor could Mohammed, for whom it was unthinkable that God would let his prophet suffer ignominy and defeat at the hands...