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...trip related to his work, perhaps hoping that at least part of it will come back as a tax deduction. One example is James Purvis, 33, Boston University religions professor, who went to work on the excavation of an ancient Canaanite fortress in Israel, under the supervision of Theologian-Archaeologist Nelson Glueck. Purvis, who says that he left behind "three angry children and an equally angry wife," earns his keep by arising each day at 5 a.m. to begin digging in the broiling sun with the other Biblical scholars. He gets along on a kibbutz diet of cucumbers, tomatoes, eggs...
...document itself is a rambling, 600-page manuscript, written by the 10th century Moslem theologian, Abd-al-Jabbar. About 140 pages of his text consist of an Arabic translation of a much older Syriac account of Nazarene beliefs, probably dating from the 5th century and presumably written by members of the sect. The Nazarenes, who claimed descent from Jesus' first disciples, were driven out of Palestine into Syria around 62 A.D. after a bitter quarrel with other Christians...
Much like the laurel wreath of ancient Greece, the honorary degree is to some extent a measure of the nation's esteem for human achievement. This year the man most voluminously laureled by the U.S. academic community was Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), chief architect of the Vatican Council's historic declaration on religious liberty. He received six honorary doctorates, from Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Gonzaga, Fairfield and Detroit universities...
...John Courtney Murray, D.S.T., Jesuit theologian. Determined fighter for freedom in the observance, practice, and witness of religion, scorner of ambiguist and dogmatist alike, priest, professor, eminent theologian, author and editor...
Accuracy & Judgment. McKenzie's accuracy and sound judgment as a Biblical theologian have gained him the wholehearted respect of his Protestant peers. Last year he became the first Catholic scholar elected to the presidency of the largely Protestant Society of Biblical Literature, and he is currently a visiting professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the first Catholic to hold this post. Within his own church, however, McKenzie is something of a maverick. Other Jesuits consider him a loner, and he now prefers to seek teaching assignments outside his society's institutions. Next fall, after summer teaching...