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...Psychology,” were given the task of creating Wikipedia entries. Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy Shaye J.D. Cohen requires his students to read nine Wikipedia entries for his Literature and Arts C-70, “From the Hebrew Bible to Judaism, From the Old Testament to Christianity,” class. “Students know Wikipedia, and know where and how to find it,” Cohen, who is also the director of the Center for Jewish Studies, wrote in an e-mail. “Therefore I hope there is a high...
...Jose. Each name with the exception of Mariamene seemed common to their period, and it was only in 1996 that the BBC made a film suggesting that. given the combination, it might be that family. The idea was eventually discounted, however, because, as University of St. Andrews (Scotland) New Testament expert Richard Bauckham asserted in a subsequent book, the names with Biblical resonance are so common that even when you run the probabilities on the group, the odds of it being the famous Jesus's family are "very...
...Israel's prominent archeologist Professor Amos Kloner didn't associate the crypt with the New Testament Jesus. His father, after all, was a humble carpenter who couldn't afford a luxury crypt for his family. And all were common Jewish names...
DIED. Bruce Metzger, 93, eminent New Testament scholar who oversaw the 1989 publication of the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, the touchstone for those on the liberal side of the biblical-text wars; in Princeton, N.J. A graceful linguist and world authority on translating the New Testament from the original Greek, he aimed to create a more modern, accessible text. Among its revisions: gender-neutral language, the elimination of thees and thous, and syntactical shifts to avoid confusion in meaning. A sentence that Metzger's team edited as "Once I received a stoning," for example, had previously read...
...with the family members, colleagues, friends, and even enemies of his characters so as to paint a clear and accurate picture. This is one of the book’s greatest strengths, and also one of its weaknesses. The diverse sampling of opinions represented in the book is a testament to the heterogeneity of the American Muslim experience. Not all Muslim females agree with the feminist leanings of Asra Nomani, and, to his credit, Barrett isn’t afraid to document the dissent. But the myriad opinions from American politicians, journalists, religious and secular Muslim leaders, children, and others...