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One final reaction. The Harvard University Faculty is, I think, indirectly responsible for the intellectually vulgar attacks that are emanating from some extremist persons associated with the Department of Afro-American Studies. I was a member, the only black, of the original Faculty committee-the so-called Rosovsky Committee-which...
First Evidence. Yehohanan's death was quickly forgotten. No documents have ever been found that record his crime or recall his crucifixion. Yet, after nearly 2,000 years, he has now suddenly and sensationally re-emerged from the dustbins of history. Last week Israeli archaeologists announced that they had...
The actual date of the execution was not so apparent. But from pottery and other artifacts in the cave, the Israeli scholars were able to make a rough estimate: it could have taken place as early as A.D. 7, when the Judeans rose up against the Romans to protest an...
Jesus' Agony. The time and place of the young man's execution invited comparison to Jesus Christ's own Passion on the cross-which scholars believe took place about A.D. 30, when Jesus was in his mid-30s.*But Israel's director of antiquities, Avraham Biran...
It went on to describe the dictator in images redolent of death, decay and sickness. Stalin's "fingers are fat as grubs," his "cockroach whiskers leer," his laws are like horseshoes to fling "at the head, the eye or the groin." One version of the poem ended with Stalin...