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...once again trying to tie his Nativity ever tighter to the Old Testament so that potential Jewish converts could feel comfortable with the new religion. The clue is Herod, whose failure to track down Jesus leads him to order the death of all local children under age 2. That "Slaughter of the Innocents" is a near replay of a much earlier infanticide: Pharaoh's murder of all the male infants of Israel in Exodus. Jews would recall that Pharaoh's most famous escapee (via those bulrushes) was Moses, who eventually received the Law from God at Sinai. Through the echoing...
Luke would have remembered that slaughter. By documenting Joseph and Mary's compliance with Quirinius' census, he was broadcasting to Roman readers that his fellow Christians were not that kind of messianists, intent on armed revolt. But by framing Christ's birth in the context of that empire-wide tally, he was also suggesting that not just Jewish Palestine but also the entire known world was a possible horizon for Christ's kingdom. It was a delicate line. The adult Jesus would later put it nicely (although Luke may have inherited this particular phrase from the earlier-written Mark): "Render...
Luminaries in the field of international law lavished praise on Goldsmith in letters to the Senate panel as it vetted his nomination. “Even when I disagree, I admire the personal and professional integrity that characterizes all his work,” wrote Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School...
...album, “Bubble Pop Electric,” owes much to the contribution of Andre 3000, who appears here in his Johnny Vulture alter-ego. It’s got a fun, driving beat and a great Jamiroquai-esque chorus, but yet again the lyrics slaughter it. The song’s meaningless title is spoken over and over in the chorus, which generated confused looks and questions of “what the hell?” from anyone who was in the room with me while I was listening to it. And then there?...
...have escaped slaughter”—are displaced and living in refugee camps on or near the Chad border, since their homes, villages, crops, livelihoods, loved ones, and futures have all been destroyed. On Friday the World Food Programme reported that because of the continuing janjaweed slaughter, 300,000 refugees (30 times the population of Cambridge) have now been cut off from any humanitarian aid whatsoever...