Word: galilean
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...Jesus in the image that suited their personal or literary needs. In Milton's Paradise Regained, Christ is an intellectual who disdains "the people" as "a herd confus'd, a miscellaneous rabble who extol things vulgar." The 19th century skeptic Swinburne had a character say of Jesus, "O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath." D.H. Lawrence equated the Resurrection with Jesus' awakening sexual desire. In the 1960s, S.G.F. Brandon saw the Nazarene as a sympathizer of the 1st century's Zealot guerrillas...
Pope Paul VI last week announced that some bones unearthed during excavations under St. Peter's Basilica were, in his judgment, those of Peter the Apostle, the Galilean fisherman whom Roman Catholics consider the founder of the Church of Rome. "The relics of St. Peter," declared Paul, "have been identified in a manner which we believe convincing." He based his conclusion on the fact that "very patient and accurate investigations were made with the result which we believe positive, encouraged by the judgment of worthy and competent persons...
...what he puts on paper. It frightens me to think what would have happened if TV had been as influential in the time of Socrates, who was not very pretty; or of Moses, who had a great impediment of speech; or of Jesus, whose Hebrew had a strong Galilean accent; or of Lincoln, whose wart, beard and shrill voice would have made Madison Avenue get rid of him immediately. It was what Mr. Lincoln said at Gettysburg that will be remembered, not how he "looked or sounded on television...
...Holy Land 30 years ago, Gilboa settled in the artists' colony at Safad and became one of Israel's popular painters. The oils in his first U.S. exhibition are technically amateurish, but his watercolors adroitly convey an obvious affection for ancient alleyways, sun-parched marketplaces, and the Galilean countryside. Through...
Israel's general election last week was conducted in a peculiar mood of pettishness and bad temper. In one Galilean village, 201 ballots were invalidated because they proved to be one-fifth of an inch smaller than regulation size. Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem refused to enter a polling place that had once been a Christian church and still bore across. Tel Aviv election officials were shocked when voters, en route to the beach, voted while wearing bikinis and swimming trunks...