Word: sodom
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Bearded Irish Cinemactor Peter O'Toole, 31, plays the messenger of God who gets saved from a fete worse than death in Sodom in John Huston's The Bible, now afilming in Rome. Off the set, he rains sulphur and brimstone all by himself, according to the paparazzi who tried to snap him downing some friendly firewater with comely British Starlet Barbara Steele. "He charged me, punched me in the face, grabbed my camera, smacking it against my ear," related one razed lensman. "I had to have five stitches taken." Tinkled O'Toole, with the tongue...
...Several pupils thought that Sodom and Gomorrah were lovers; that the four horsemen appeared on the Acropolis; that the Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luther and John; that Eve was created from an apple; that Jesus was baptized by Moses; that Jezebel was Ahab's donkey; and that the stories by which Jesus taught were called parodies...
Tourists for Sodom. Many outsiders who begin as shareholders eventually move into actual property ownership by buying a Rassco enterprise and letting Rassco manage it for a fee. Nazareth's new buildings, for example, are largely owned by Memphis, Tenn., investors. With Rassco, several British millionaires, including Sir Isaac Wolfson and Charles Clore, jointly own G.U.S.-Rassco Ltd., a company affiliate that sets up small industries. Stern is happy to sell off enterprises quickly; sales give foreign investors material and emotional ties to Israel and, more importantly in a capital-short nation, provide funds for further enterprises. Already, although...
...evidence for the old assumption is Genesis 19, which relates how inhabitants of Sodom surrounded Lot's house after he had been secretly visited by two angels. "Where are the men which came in to thee this night?" they asked. "Bring them out unto us, that we may know them." Beginning with rabbinical interpreters in the 2nd century B.C., scholars have assumed that "know" here implied carnal knowledge. Apart from what it may mean in the story of Lot, Williamson argues, the Hebrew word for "know" (yadoa) clearly has a sexual connotation in only ten out of 943 instances...
According to Williamson, the Bible points out other sins that led to Sodom's destruction, such as idolatry and refusal to "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" (Ezekiel 16:49). "The correct understanding of Sodom," he says, "is of a proud, self-satisfied, materialist society, acting with callous inhospitality to man and at the same time rejecting the true worship...