Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard women's soccer has now won seven Ivy League championships, and Saturday's win gave Crimson seniors their third Ancient Eight title of their careers...
Many of Iraq's antiaircraft-missile batteries have been moved south to protect Baghdad and other sensitive sites, leaving ancient guns, and even rockets designed to kill tanks, to fire crudely at U.S. warplanes. Many guns and missiles still in the north have been placed in residential neighborhoods or amid historic ruins, where, the Iraqis know, Washington's sensitivities will keep U.S. bombs at bay. A handful of American planes are dropping some bombs crammed with concrete instead of explosives to minimize the chance of civilian casualties...
...Bible As It Was, a history of biblical interpretation in antiquity, was a finalist for the 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award and a popular favorite. In his latest release, The Great Poems of the Bible, Kugel again tries to recreate the spiritual and psychological imagination of the ancient Israelites for a contemporary audience. The result is an introductory book to the Bible as erudite as it is accessible, as grounded in historical scholarship as it is refreshingly, thoughtfully...
...popular culture to clarify an idea, such as his citation of The Wizard of Oz as an example of theological disillusionment for which there is no Hebraic equivalent. At other times, he writes with a contemporary lyricism that brings to life, however anachronistically, the thoughts and feelings of an ancient people: "what we are actually given to know about God from the Bible itself...is no consistent and harmonious portrait but rather a set of often out-of-focus, and sometimes apparently contradictory, snapshots, action photos from different angles and in different lighting." As the author of his own translations...
...indeed, Kugel often lets the Scripture speak for itself, including lengthy passages but neglecting to analyze or comment on them. Those seeking a rigorous examination of the Bible's unique poetic forms should look elsewhere. However, if an unchallenging journey through the imaginative universe of the ancient Israelites sounds appealing, there is probably no better travel guide than this graceful text...