Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freedom ride. But Farmer has decided that "more sophisticated weaponry" is now required, and he is resigning as CORE's leader next month to direct a Government-aided literacy and job-training program. Freedom-When? is part tribute to the organization he grew up with, part testament of his beliefs, part personal memoir of 46 years, and part civil rights manual...
...remains of the ancient Canaanite city-state of Ugarit, which was destroyed in the 12th century B.C. A neighbor of ancient Israel, Ugarit had a language closely allied to Hebrew, and an elaborate, sophisticated pagan religion to which references are found in many passages of the Old Testament...
...introduction, Dahood says that Schaeffer has unearthed such an embarrassment of riches that "one finds scholars debating in learned journals whether Ras Shamra or Qumran has contributed more to an understanding of the Old Testament." The most obvious value of Ugaritic research to Biblical study is linguistic and textual. By comparing Ugaritic texts with Hebrew, scholars have been able to recover the original meaning of many Hebrew words. In Proverbs 31:3, for example, which the King James version translates as "Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings," the word "ways" should...
...similar to those found in an epic about the legendary King Keret of Ugarit. While scholars are still arguing about the precise relationship of the two stories, they do agree that the still unfinished exploration of Ras Shamra is of immeasurable help in clarifying the message of the Old Testament...
Judith is the misleading Old Testament title of a film that ought to be called Sophia Loren's Israel. Based on a story by Lawrence Durrell, it is set in Palestine in 1948, just before the departure of the British gives the go sign to encircling Arab armies. A tireless sound track thumps music to feel humane by (folk themes, mostly), and Director Daniel Mann brings on the folks: Peter Finch, whose kibbutz is a hotbed of nationalist fervor; Jack Hawkins, as a British major who enforces the rules with leathery compassion; and a full quota of illegal immigrants...