Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Adventist climbed down the mountain, he left some Bibles in Chimpay, and the Indians began to study the Torah and live by it. Eleven years later, a Chilean Jew named Santiago Martinez visited Chimpay, gave the Indians real instruction in Judaism, and told them that the children of Israel had completed their millennium of suffering for having forsaken Jehovah and were soon to return to Zion to await the coming of the Messiah. The Araucanians observed Jewish dietary laws, feast and fast days, separated men and women for worship, even broke down their tribe into classic biblical castes. They elected...
...evening in 1948 Luis Bravo tuned in Chimpay's one battered radio and heard electrifying news-the prophecy was confirmed, the State of Israel had been founded. From that moment on, the Indians of Chimpay burned with a single hope: to reach the Promised Land to wait for the Messiah...
EURf Leon Uris' Exodus, a plodding novel about Israel that could almost serve as a textbook of inept fiction writing...
...Egypt's grounds: that only an armistice, not a treaty, ended the Israeli-Arab fighting, and that a state of war still exists. This theory of a continuing war was also used by Israel when it invaded the Sinai Peninsula...
...from the dying patriarch. Summoned to his father's deathbed, Joseph has brought with him his two sons and his Egyptian wife Asenath, who is the mother of Ephraim, the younger son. Jacob blesses his grandsons, thus adopting them in effect and admitting them to the tribes of Israel. But against all custom, he is inspired to bless Ephraim first. Joseph gently tries to guide the patriarch's hand to the head of Manasseh, explaining that he is the elder. Jacob, filled with prophetic spirit, replies (Genesis 48:19): "I know it. my son, I know...