Word: testamental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. John Merlin Powis Smith, 65, Professor of Semitic Languages & Literature at University of Chicago; of a cerebral hemorrhage; aboard S. S. Laconia in New York Harbor. In 1927 he edited a modernized Old Testament, published it in normal book format...
...Even Old Testament students might not recognize Author Revere's grotesque title, ripped from a verse of Ecclesiastes: "And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bonds." Not so much a tract on marital infidelity as a diatribe against the grasping mistress, it may be of interest to U. S. husbands in the same pickle as Revere's hero...
During the past few years, Professor Lake has alternated on giving English 35 A and B during the first half year, courses on the Old and New Testament which have proved very popular. In the second half year it has been his custom to conduct exploring expeditions in Palestine but this year he will give English 35 B during the second half year...
Lesson from Old and New Testament Scriptures...
...John Hyrcanus, an early Maccabaean leader, in spite of protests from the rabbis, converted the idolatrous Idumeans. In 740 A.D. the Khazar dynasty in southern Russia, originally pagan, became Jewish. Their kingdom was wiped out in 1016. Aquila, supposedly related to Emperor Hadrian, became a Jew, translated the Old Testament into Greek. A contemporary convert is French, Catholic-born Poet Aimé Palli...