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...Dead Sea Scrolls were written, most scholars agree, by the Essenes, a mysterious, ascetic Jewish sect that was wiped out by the Romans about A.D. 70. The scrolls, slightly older than the New Testament, were hidden in some caves at Qumran, near the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea. They were discovered by Bedouin and sold piecemeal, beginning in 1947. Yadin's father, also an archaeologist, did the initial analysis on the first three...
...caves collection, ten scrolls and 600 scroll fragments in all, includes a full text of Isaiah and portions of all other Old Testament books except Esther. Thus the scrolls have substantiated the reliability of traditional Bible texts and have aided new translations. Other documents such as the "Thanksgiving Psalms" and the Temple Scroll were unique to the sect. All in all, the scrolls have greatly expanded knowledge about ancient Judaism and the backdrop against which Christianity developed...
...seems, with the deliverance of Dean Fox's new testament on the housing issue this week, the closing chapter of this long and boring book might be at hand...
Daley's Chicago worked downtown and along the lakefront where the beautiful buildings he gave the city serve as a testament to his ability to improve Chicago. But the skyscrapers and architectural wonders--for all their importance--distract visitors from seeing the decaying inner city, which doesn't work so well. No public housing has been built recently. Daley refused to put the projects in white areas and lost federal funds as a result. Chicago remains statistically the most segregated major city in the nation. And the Machine can't and won't do much for ghetto dwellers. The infant...
...anguish of the martyr. Simone was born into the French upper-middle class in 1909. Her father-a physician-and her mother had Jewish backgrounds, though they observed no religious ritual or custom. The child never regarded herself as a Jew. Later she rejected the God of the Old Testament as the sanctioner of cruelty and declared, instead, that her tradition was Christian, French and Hellenic. She also regretted having been born female. Her style of dress was the antichic of radical intellectuals of the '20s and '30s-drab, flappy and mannish. Her biographer gives no indication that...