Word: testaments
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...seven seminaries are within a few minutes' walk of one another on what Berkeleyites call "Holy Hill"; the others are within easy driving distance. But what made the Union necessary was the high cost of academic improvements. Although the individual seminaries have plenty of topflight teachers - Old Testament Scholar James Muilenberg at the Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, Systematic Theologian Keith Bridston at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - none of the schools ranked among the nation's best. Only two had doctoral programs, and their libraries ranged from average to inadequate. Back in 1959, the seminary presidents began meeting...
...faiths, M.R.A. claims that it is not a rival to existing churches. Rome suspects that it is, and many Catholic bishops have warned their flocks against joining. A number of Protestant leaders have attacked its ideology as essentially unBiblical, even though M.R.A. is about as rigid as the Old Testament prophets on the need for strict standards of personal conduct. Good members of M.R.A. do not smoke or drink, and even if married are urged to sexual restraint. Last week Peter Howard warned Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson against "satirists and cynics" who "debase our ancient virtue...
...example-are often pleasing to read, but their eccentricities and errors make scholars wince. The credentials of the Anchor translators, who include seven Catholics, 15 Protestants and five Jews, are beyond dispute. Sweden's Bo Reicke, 50, who did The Epistles, was one of the first New Testament scholars to use the Dead Sea Scrolls in his research. The translator of Genesis, Ephraim Avigdor Speiser, 62, of the University of Pennsylvania, is one of the world's ranking Assyriologists and an editor of the recent Jewish Publication Society translation of the Torah...
Sacred Texts. For many people, any modern translation seems like an impiety. Orthodox Jews regard as sacred the Masoretic text of the Old Testament, which was established by rabbinical scholars between the 6th and 9th centuries after Christ. Many conservative Protestants feel the same way about the majestic prose of the King James Version-which also took many years to win acceptance among tradition-minded 17th century Christians...
...defense of the Anchor Bible, Editor Albright points out: "We have learned more about the Bible in the past 150 years than in all the previous centuries since its composition." The King James translators, for example, had only 16th century copies of New Testament manuscripts to work from; scholars today can consult papyrus fragments that date from within 60 years of Jesus' crucifixion...