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In his introduction, Dahood says that Schaeffer has unearthed such an embarrassment of riches that "one finds scholars debating in learned journals whether Ras Shamra or Qumran has contributed more to an understanding of the Old Testament." The most obvious value of Ugaritic research to Biblical study is linguistic and...
"My feeling about islands is not normal," confesses Author Russell, who was born on an island-New Zealand's South Island-and who, like sea birds feels uncomfortable nesting anywhere but on rock castles moated by the deeps One summer, his spirit choked by 15 years of urban life...
The recent risers are concentrated in a few industries. In November, airline issues climbed 17.5% because the industry is highly "leveraged"-every rise in sales beyond the break-even point translates into a tremendous advance in profits. Television manufacturers rose 16.1% as a group last month because of the color...
In his 500th novel, give or take a dozen or two, Simenon accepts a handicap that only a master could overcome: The Little Saint is a book in which nothing happens. The hero is "a perfectly serene character, in immediate contact with nature and life." All through his boyhood in...
What the analyzer does is to compare an engine's sounds with what those sounds ought to be. The taped sounds are fed to a computer, which translates their complex wave shapes into the language of binary numbers and then works out a program for the analyzer. The analyzer...