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...Egyptian court reared and educated foreign-born princes, who then bore the title "child of the nursery." He believes Moses was one of these privileged foreigners, some of whom went on to serve as high officials in their adopted land. In an intriguing study published in 1988, the German scholar Ernst Axel Knauf speculated that the Moses story could have been built around a Syrian named Bay, who had served as Egypt's chief treasurer and ascended the throne as Ramose-khayemnetjeru. Civil war ensued, leading not only to his exile but also to that of his followers. Chancellor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...people and beasts, hail, locusts and "a darkness that can be touched." Scientific skeptics have assigned them myriad natural explanations, including a comet and a volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood-red soil from the high plateaus and reddish micro-organisms usually confined to up-country lakes. These micro-organisms poison the fish, whose rotting bodies pollute the frogs' habitats, forcing them to hop onto dry land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search Of Moses | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...film. And Katzenberg did his homework, reading up so extensively on the Bible that he began to sound more like a yeshiva student than the college dropout he is. But as Katzenberg discovered, everyone's a movie critic. An elderly Fundamentalist minister didn't like the drawings; a rabbinical scholar complained that in the Bible "God has a great line" that wasn't in the film, and also objected to the fact that Moses, who should be around 80 when he returns to confront Rameses, looks too young in the film's version of the scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Prince And The Promoter | 12/14/1998 | See Source »

...addition to the dearth of adequate safety nets, some professors said the reform perpetuates class bias. Richard P. Taub, a visiting scholar in the W.E.B. DuBois Institute who teaches Afro-American Studies 194z: "Economic Development in the Inner City," said the hard-lined stance indicates widening class schisms...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Professors Express Skepticism About Shrinking Welfare Rolls | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

Eckert, who advises the Korean Association, is a renowned Korea scholar...

Author: By Susie Y. Huang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Eckert Paints a Bleak Picture of North Korea | 12/8/1998 | See Source »

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