Word: testament
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Natural law would be fine if you had four legs instead of two, instinct instead of brains, and the fertility god (Baal) of the Old Testament Canaanites instead of the God of the New Testament we know through Jesus Christ...
Published last week was a book so important to New Testament studies that it was released simultaneously in Europe and the U.S. in five languages and six editions. Scholars have been waiting for it since 1946, when word went through the learned world that jars containing 13 leather-bound papyrus manuscripts-part of a 4th century Gnostic library-had been found in a sand-covered tomb in Upper Egypt. Laymen had been waiting for the book since last spring, when Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann, in a lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, quoted some tantalizing excerpts from...
Though it includes many word-for-word quotes and echoes from the New Testament, plus many new sayings attributed to Jesus, the Thomas Gospel is not a candidate for inclusion in the Bible. While some of the sayings may well be genuine, others are strongly influenced by Gnosticism. And Gnosticism, in its various forms (including Manichaeism) was one of the chief heresies fought by the early Christian church. Basic to all Gnostic sects was the belief that the world was evil, created by a bad god for the express purpose of imprisoning the divine spark which had somehow become vulnerable...
From his teaching experience in Humanities 124-5, Buttrick hopes also to assemble a textbook on the New Testament and "Biblical Thinking and the Mind of Today...
...done with a specially hired orchestra of Los Angeles musicians in a hall not far from Bruno Walter's home. There, day after day over a span of six months, the old man led his men in the performances that he hopes will stand as "a kind of testament to the feeling I have for Beethoven...