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Word: rusalem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arab terrorist organization El Fatah promptly claimed credit for the explosions that brought the total number of such incidents to 14 in two months. Its aim: to unsettle the civilian population and sabotage the modus vivendi between Jews and Arabs in Je rusalem. After a protest strike by the Arab population, normal life returned to Jerusalem. But on the Israeli-Jor danian border, the military hostilities erupted anew. At week's end Israelis and Jordanians were peppering one another across the frontier with small-arms fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Uneasy Neighbors | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

Study Meant Damage. It is not surprising that the Bible de Jérusalem has become something of a standard for modern translations: scholars of all faiths freely acknowledge that L'Ecole Biblique is one of the world's most authoritative centers for scriptural study. The school was founded in 1890 by French Dominican Marie Joseph Lagrange, who was a pioneer in countering the age-old Catholic position that to study the Bible was to damage it. Although knowledgeable Protestant and Jewish scholars had long admired the careful work of L'Ecole Biblique's scholars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: Curt, Clear, Complete | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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