Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Philadelphia last week Digger Bache and Director Ephraim A. Speiser of the American School of Oriental Research announced the discovery, between Levels Eleven and Twelve, of a temple-fortress built 3,000 years before the earliest mention of such structures in the Old Testament, and which they called "unique in prehistory." The building was circular and its walls, of sun-dried brick, were more than a yard thick. Twelve rooms were laid out around the circle, and across it were three rectangular rooms in series. The diggers believed that the largest was a cult-room and that a small anteroom...
Died. William Frederic Badé, 63 famed Biblical scholar and archeologist who, by studying the Old Testament, dis covered the lost city of Mizpah ir Palestine in 1926; of a paralytic stroke in Berkeley, Calif...
...difficult role of Mio Burgess Meredith plays with great skill and strength; Margo portrays Miriamne with gentle and compelling simplicity. Myron McCormick makes Trock a vivid incarnation of humanity reduced to the ruthless. Lee Baker as the broken judge and Austole Winogradoff as the some what Old Testament Esdras Pere contribute excellent characterizations...
Last week in London a record was claimed for a recent find in Egypt, 86 pages of Epistles of St. Paul which, written in the 3rd Century, appears to be the oldest New Testament text of any length. Collector Beatty bought 56 pages, the University of Michigan the remainder...
...possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. Between these extremes there is a vast theological any-man's-land. In George Bernard Shaw's preface to Androcles and the Lion, in the form of a running commentary on the New Testament, the British playwright made a convincing Socialist out of Jesus Christ. But Christian Conservatives point to Christ's statement: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things [food, shelter, clothing] shall be added unto you. The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to Communism and Socialism...