Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Albright, noted archeologist and historian, asserted at the opening talk of the Thursday afternoon lecture series last week. Albright, W W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages, Emeritus, at Johns Hopkins University, criticized several theories comparing Greek and Hebrew thought in his attempt to indicate "The Place of the Old Testament in Logical Thinking...
Rather the archeologist went on to note several examples of logic based on experience in the Hebrew Bible, asserting that "no book is based so largely on empirical-logical thinking" as the Old Testament. While there are no syllogisms in the Hebrew Bible, Hebrew and other Semitic cultures had "systematized law: they had taken from the multitude of cases general propositions, all stated in the form of 'if . . . , then...
...controversies between 'divinities'" and of the absence of conflict between the will of fate and the will of the god(s), as is found in Greek poetry. Words that might be used in pre-Israelite Near Eastern poetry as actual descriptions of deities are employed in the Old Testament, the speaker added in a purely metaphorical sense...
...plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression of so many Bavarian countryfolk assembling for a photograph in Biblical costume...
...Story of Ruth. The Old Testament's four brief chapters are souped up, padded out and somehow made into a movie that is commendably unepic...