Word: tarsus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffering and his role as physician to mankind. The Wise Men, or Magi, may have been members of an occult school in Media and Persia that specialized in astrology. No one knows how or when tradition turned them into kings and gave them names and ages. Caspar, King of Tarsus, was often represented as a beardless youth of 20; Balthazar, King of Ethiopia, was a black man of about 40; Melchior, King of Arabia, was supposed to be 60. Their remains were said to have been found by St. Helena, the relic-hunting mother of Constantine the Great, and later...
...Billy Graham's visit to Little Rock last week, Jimmy was among his most prominent local sponsors, sat with him at press conferences and on the platform. Summed up one Little Rock reporter: "Many church people are convinced that it's the greatest conversion since Paul of Tarsus. Others still see Jimmy Karam under the sheep's clothing...
...Jesus was a mild Jewish reformer who was primarily interested in social revolution . . . But somewhere around the middle of the first century a Jew named Paul of Tarsus got converted to the movement and right away proceeded to get it all fouled up with theological nonsense. He made Jesus out to be the hero of a mystery religion, and went around preaching the gospel that all men could be assured of a niche in Heaven if they would only accept him as Lord and Savior...
Psychiatrist Sargant sees these quick conversions under great emotional stress almost anywhere. He believes that every important conversion recorded in the New Testament (most notably that of Saul of Tarsus, persecutor of Christians, to Paul the Apostle) was of this type. In modern times, thinks Sargant, many conversions to and from Communism (e.g., Arthur Koestler's carefully recorded experiences) followed the pattern. So, too, did religious and pagan dedications among Voodooists in Haiti, among some tribes on the west coast of Africa, among the Quakers (says Sargant, because they "shook and trembled before the Lord"), among the lamas...
...Dare was worrying about the spaceship Kingfisher en route to Venus, and Patrolman 49 was off to nab a gang of bank robbers. Seth and Shorty, out Texas way, were hard at work saving the cattle from a tribe of rustling redskins. A handsome young Jew named Saul of Tarsus was aiding & abetting the mob murder of another handsome youth named Stephen. All this was happening last week in the stories and cartoon strips of the spanking new London weekly Eagle, dazzlingly successful magazine brain child of a boyish, 35-year-old vicar of the Church of England...