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...movie begins with a sobersided lecture by a bearded sexologist whose recondite Kinseyisms are interspersed with pornographic slides. Eventually, the action leads into the story of Isabela (Eva Ras), a sensual-mouthed switchboard operator who begins an affair with a sad-eyed ratcatcher (Slobodan Aligrudic). As the affair progresses, time begins to dissolve. Suddenly it is the future: she is dead, drowned in a well, while police search for her lover. Back in the present, the graphic lovemaking of Isabela and her ratcatcher is punctuated by an illustrated lecture on sanitation. Once again, it is the future, as her nude...
...around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging the federation to include the five smaller states-Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Umm al Qaiwain and Ras al Khaimah...
...translation of Psalms I (1-50) by Jesuit Father Mitchell Dahood, published by Doubleday this week as part of its Anchor Bible, a continuing project of Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish experts. Dahood, a professor of Ugaritic at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, draws on the Ras Shamra discoveries to correct and sometimes drastically change a number of obscure and, so he believes, previously misinterpreted passages in Psalms...
...introduction, Dahood says that Schaeffer has unearthed such an embarrassment of riches that "one finds scholars debating in learned journals whether Ras Shamra or Qumran has contributed more to an understanding of the Old Testament." The most obvious value of Ugaritic research to Biblical study is linguistic and textual. By comparing Ugaritic texts with Hebrew, scholars have been able to recover the original meaning of many Hebrew words. In Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should...
...were well aware of Canaanite mythology. The trials of Job, for example, are similar to those found in an epic about the legendary King Keret of Ugarit. While scholars are still arguing about the precise relationship of the two stories, they do agree that the still unfinished exploration of Ras Shamra is of immeasurable help in clarifying the message of the Old Testament...