Word: yahweh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only god, beside whom there is no other." But the Pharaoh's heresy died out after his death, and the message to the world that there was but one true God came from Egypt's tiny neighbor, Israel. It was not a sudden revelation. Some scholars believe that Yahweh was originally a tribal deity?a god whom the Hebrews worshiped and considered superior to the pagan gods adored by other nations. It is even questionable to some whether Moses understood Yahweh to be mankind's only God, the supreme lord of all creation. Even after the emergence of Israel...
...great and from the man in the street was uniformly incredulous . . . From Independence, Mo., former President Harry S. Truman, who received the news in his Kansas City barbershop, said 'I'm always sorry to hear somebody is dead. It's a damn shame." *Almost impossible to translate, the name Yahweh means roughly "I am who I am" or "He causes to be." *Probably the most famous proofs for God's existence are the five ways of St. Thomas Aquinas, all drawn from the nature of the universe, that he sets out in his Summa Theologiae. Aquinas' first proof, for example...
...church should not despair at the prospect of having to find new ways of speaking about God, Cox says. After all, God revealed himself to Israel at different times under different names-as El Shaddai (the Almighty) to Abraham, and as Yahweh to Moses. "Rather than clinging stubbornly to antiquated appellations or anxiously synthesizing new ones," says Cox, "we must simply take up the work of liberating the captives, confident that we will be granted a new name by events of the future...
Balanchine occupies an incredibly large place in the life of each of his 66 dancers. Even the 16-year-olds in the corps de ballet speak of him as if he were Yahweh. The entire ballet is on call from ten to twelve hours a day, six days a week, and the pace gives no one time to think of anything beyond living up to Balanchine's artistic wishes...