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Periodically TIME presents its readers with an advance look at the memoirs of famous men. Excerpts first appeared in TIME from such works as Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev's Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament (1974), Anwar Sadat's In Search of Identity (1978), and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's White House Years (1979) and Years of Upheaval (1982). In this issue, TIME offers Part 1 of a two-part serialization of Jimmy Carter's Keeping Faith, the former President's personal account of his years in the Oval Office...
...worshipful editing? Verily, saith the Reader's Digest, and last week it brought forth the Reader's Digest Bible. Priced at $16.95, it is 320,000 words (or 40%) shorter than the Protestant text of the Revised Standard Version on which it is based; the Old Testament has been cut down by half and the New by onefourth. Alas, less in this instance is not more...
...eliminated entire sentences, like Matthew 4: 25: "And great crowds followed [Jesus] from Galilee and the Decapolis and Jerusalem and Judea and from beyond the Jordan." This moves the action along briskly, but at the sacrifice of historical detail. Many complicated sections are cut altogether, such as those Old Testament family trees and lists of kings and much of the ritual law in Leviticus...
...than a legend. Killed while we were still too young to be aware of him, he now symbolizes a more turbulent, idealistic time a movement now seemingly defunct and a group who rose up defiantly to demand its freedom. We see him standing before the Lincoln Memorial an Old Testament prophet in the guise of a Baptist preacher both admonishing a nation for its transgressions and exhorting it to live up to a vision of brotherhood and equality. But while the image of King as a modern day Moses has become fixed the human being behind that image has lost...
From the start, Begin showed how strongly he had been influenced in his world view by the Old Testament. He began calling the occupied West Bank by its biblical names, Judea and Samaria, and turned to the prophets of old to justify what he felt was Israel's historical claim to the territory. He espoused the sanctity of "Eretz Yisrael," a term meaning "land of Israel" and referring to the region that in biblical times would have encompassed present-day Israel and the West Bank...