Word: testaments
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Draft Dropped. The 1918 clause was kept, but a modernized clarification was tacked on, and-in the evangelical language so dear to Labor-promptly dubbed the New Testament. In a phrase lifted from a speech by Nye Bevan, who lifted it in turn from a 1922 speech by Lenin, it called for "substantial enough" common ownership to give power over the "commanding heights of the economy." Surviving from Hugh Gaitskell's original draft was a line "recognizing that both public and private enterprise have a place in the economy...
...Jewish dietary law forbids man to eat bees. But the Old Testament demonstrates over and over that eating honey is permissible, and this is surprising because generally the product of any nonkosher animal is forbidden. Why the exception for honey? Traditional halacha explains this on the ground that the honey never enters the system of the bee but merely rests in the nectar sac, where it becomes honey. Science now knows that the bee secretes an enzyme that changes the nectar to honey. In recent Orthodox opinions, an enzyme from a nonkosher animal (such as a bee) is forbidden...
...enthusiasts almost as real as Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion. Last week Soldier-Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Israel's Chief of Operations in the Palestine war of 1948 and the general who chased the Egyptians out of the Negev by a strategic plan derived from the Old Testament, offered proof that the celebrated ruin at Megiddo was not built by King Solomon, as had been supposed. Instead it was built by the "wicked" King Ahab...
...dominates the best route from Egypt to Mesopotamia and has been important strategically for more than 4,000 years. Today it is mostly a ruined city wall. Stables for 450 horses show that it had an important garrison of chariots, which were then the decisive military weapon. The Old Testament says that Solomon built Megiddo, and archaeologists who excavated the city before World War II decided that the Bible was essentially right...
...Testament authors are hard on Ahab. They accuse him of worshiping false gods and object to his marrying Jezebel, a Phoenician woman who was cursed by the prophet Elijah. Eventually, a later conqueror fulfilled Elijah's curse by having her thrown from a window, trampled to death by horses, and eaten by dogs. "And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands...