Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always been a rebellion for Aronson. After eight years of Hebrew studies, he turned against the strictures of orthodoxy and started learning to paint with Karl Zerbe. At first he defiantly depicted only New, therefore more forbidden, Testament figures Works like his Young Christ (see color) won him a place in 1946's 14 Americans exhibit at Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...John Bertram Phillips of Dorsetshire has a rare and felicitous talent: he can make St. Paul sound as contemporary as the preacher down the street. Seeking to "transmit freshness and life across the centuries," Phillips produced a New Testament in Modern English that abandoned archaisms in favor of unadorned clarity and read more like Lord Jim than King James...
...Testament was such a success, Phillips admits, that people pestered him to try the Old as well. Now Macmillan has published in the U.S. Phillips' first attempt to put the Hebrew books in English, a translation of Amos, Hosea, First Isaiah and Micah called Four Prophets...
...Tensed Muscle." Phillips, an Anglican minister who resigned from his London parish in 1955, found the Old Testament much tougher going than the New, which was written in free and easy colloquial Greek that is akin in spirit to modern English. No Hebrew scholar, he discovered that almost every letter was a "tensed muscle" and that the style of the Old Testament possessed a "monolithic grandeur," requiring a language "which is both dignified and authoritative...
Krister Shendahl, John H. Morison Professor of New Testament Studies, explained that the former title too heavily emphasized the philosophical aspect, and did not do justice to those scholars concentrating in Akkadian, Sumerian, and Religion and Society...