Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TESTAMENT Noah's Liberty Ship What did history's most famous boat look like? Though many religious scholars doubt the story of Noah and the Flood, there has been no lack of efforts to depict his ark. Medieval artists tended to portray it as a big houseboat...
...church, with two members of the congregation serving as prosecution counsel. Baker-who had melodramatically nailed a copy of the hearing notice-to the church door on Reformation Sunday-acted as his own defense attorney. In a closing summation, he linked himself with Naboth of the Old Testament whose vineyard was stolen by King Ahab...
...labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister Stendahl, 46, an ordained Lutheran minister who is regarded as one of the top New Testament scholars in the U.S. Admired by his students as a charismatic teacher, Stendahl was one of three leading candidates last year for the vacant post of primate in Sweden's state church...
Committee members were Harvey G. Cox, associate professor of Church and Society; Ralph B. Potter, assistant professor of Social Ethics; George H. Williams, Hollis Professor of Divinity; Helmut Koester, John H. Morrison Professor of New Testament Studies; and Herbert D. Long, dean of students at the Divinity School...
...September, while under house arrest for allegedly plotting a military coup, Amer either committed suicide-the official version of his death -or was killed. After his death, intelligence agents of another Arab state obtained in Cairo a 14-page document said to be Amer's last testament. Though the Middle East makes a business of forgery, sources who knew Amer well and have read the document claim that on the basis of its style, opinions and signature, it is unmistakably Amer's. It not only criticizes Nasser but offers strong indication that Amer was murdered. Excerpts...