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...cave. Because of the political situation and payment difficulties, the Jordan government has so far kept its contents under lock and key, but scholars have been permitted a preliminary peek. On the basis of this examination, they tentatively identified the Cave II scrolls as the Biblical 'Psalms and Leviticus, an apocalyptic description of the New Jerusalem, and a targum (i.e., a translation of a Hebrew text into Aramaic, the colloquial language of Christ's time) of the Book of Job. In all probability this is the targum that disappeared when it was suppressed (for still-obscure theological reasons...
...Leviticus Says No. He tells the story, wittily and well, by putting the problem of ethics on a kind of analyst's couch and dredging up its troubled case history. The childhood of ethics, in the Russell view, is taboo. Taboo morality is a strict black-and-white affair filled with dread and sanctions, the ethics of primitive...
...answer, but I do not think H can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked." The problem of ethics grows as it is touched by religion. Biblical authority, says Russell, is sometimes contradictory: "Should a childless widow marry her deceased husband's brother? Leviticus says no, Deuteronomy says yes (Leviticus 20: 21; Deuteronomy 25:5)." Knowledge Is Virtue. An unswerving atheist, Russell is convinced that all faiths do harm." He defines faith as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence." The code of ethics with which Russell would like...
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