Word: righteousness
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With just this kind of historical detective work, the scholars have moved in on the dramatic cast of characters offered in the Habakknk commentary. The leading members of the cast are the already famed Righteous Teacher, a spiritual leader with special inspiration from God, and his persecutor, the Wicked Priest, a sacrilegious, murdering, despoiling drunkard who comes to a bad end. There are probably subsidiary villains, referred to as the Man of the Lie and the Preacher of the Lie (though it is possible that these are additional epithets for the Wicked Priest). In the background is the House...
...Antiochus Epiphanes, who in 175 B.C. became King of Syria, and thus ruler of Palestine. Determined to force Hellenism on the Jews, he marched an army into Jerusalem (with the help of a Hellenic fifth column) and deposed High Priest Onias III-a possible Righteous Teacher under this theory. Thus the Wicked Priest becomes one of Antiochus' appointees, Menelaus, who went to work enthusiastically forcing Greek clothes, games and gods on the Jews. Under the priest Mattathias and later his son Judas Maccabeus ("The Hammer"), the old-line Israelites rose to defeat the Syrians and slaughter many...
...Three Messiahs. Scholars doubt whether the Righteous Teacher will ever be specifically identified. The important question is whether, as has been suggested, he prefigured Christ in any sense. Actually, scholars are now generally convinced that while the Teacher was persecuted and reviled ("They made me an object of contempt and reproach"), there is no suggestion that he was martyred, much less crucified. Sectarian Jews of the period expected not one but two and possibly three messiahs, i.e., anointed ones-a king, a priest and possibly a prophet. The Essenes may have seen the prophet-messiah as a return...
...oppose the anxious attempts of "righteous moralists" to undercut Harvard's responsibility for providing the opportunity and the risk proper to higher education...
Eluding South Sea cannibals who are bent on turning brats into Bratwurst, roly-poly Hans and Fritz last week reacted with their usual aplomb. "Vot's mit diss nutty island?" demands black-haired Hans in righteous indignation. Just in time, an utter stranger saves the brothers from certain ingestion. "Only for you," towheaded Fritz thanks their rescuer, "ve vos on der half-shell." And so, as it has since their birth 60 years ago, another bit of nonsense fell off the pen of Cartoonist Rudolph Dirks to save the world's most durable delinquents of the funny page...