Word: testaments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were made to display the 50-odd pieces on five acres of imaginatively landscaped grounds adjoining the museum in Jerusalem. But opposition to the gift soon came from Israels' ultra-Orthodox Agudat Israel Party, which protested that the planned display would be a profane violation of the Old Testament's canons against graven images. Pressured to withdraw the gift or shift the sculpture display to a city of less religious importance for Orthodox Jews, Rose threatened that unless the sculpture goes to Jerusalem as planned, he will cut off all of his gifts to Israel. But some Talmudic...
...millions simply as "C.R." -has been stumping through the North Indian cities and villages for his cause. His platform is modern: less government planning, more scope for free enterprise, a firmer stand against Communism and Chinese aggression. But his language is often reminiscent of the parables of the New Testament...
...British Theologian C. H. Dodd's vivid translation of / Corinthians 4:9-13. -Ephesians, Hebrews. I and II Timothy, Titus and /// Corinthians (not generally included in the New Testament canon). - Roman Catholic tradition holds that Paul was martyred near Rome at a place called Aquae Salviae, now Tre Fontane, and was buried where the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls now stands...
Paul's sudden conversion from persecutor to apostle of the persecuted faith has prompted New Testament scholars to some elaborate detective work and guessing games. Some believe that Paul spent most of his early career not in Jerusalem at all but in Damascus itself, hence could not have taken part in the stoning of Stephen or known Jesus. The emphasis on Jerusalem, suggests Professor John Knox of Union Theological Seminary, may have been provided by Physician Luke who may have innocently doctored both the Acts and his Gospel to present Christianity as a continuation of the mainstream of Judaism...
...what I wanted," said Gaitskell, but few agreed with him; his New Testament was hardly inspired revelation to strengthen the faithful or to convert the disbelievers. As if to emphasize Labor's decline, for the first time in ten years the Tories won the seat in the industrial constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough in Yorkshire. And in another by-election in a dormitory suburb of London, the Labor candidate finished third behind a Tory and a Liberal...