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...World Congress of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem last week, General Yadin advanced a new theory relating the scrolls to Christianity. Paul's Epistle to the Hebrews, he suggested, was addressed to converted members of the Dead Sea sect, the Essenes. Scholars have long wondered who the "Hebrews" of the epistle were, said Yadin. The answer is to be found in the similarities between the theology of the people Paul was addressing (as it can be deduced from Paul's arguments) and the known theology of the Dead Sea sect. The Essenes believed in the ascendancy of the priestly...
...Winston Churchill, Britain's Colonial Secretary after World War I, who created the artificial desert kingdom that Hussein rules. Churchill whacked a hatchet-shaped hunk off the defunct Ottoman Empire, called it Transjordan, and handed it to Hussein's grandfather Abdullah "one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem," as he later said. Churchill was repaying Abdullah's fighting services to Britain in Lawrence of Arabia's desert campaign (another hunk-Mesopotamia, now Iraq-was given to Abdullah's brother Feisal). Thenceforth, while Britain's Glubb Pasha built the British-equipped Arab Legion into Islam...
...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
...degrees, follow common courses, and eventually were to use common textbooks (to be produced by Nasser's professors). The Nabulsi government also initialed an agreement with Syria for a customs and currency union that would shortly have shifted Jordan's economic capital to Damascus-an arrangement that Jerusalem's sharp traders were slow in getting wise to. In their first months in office, Nabulsi's leftists brought the Anglo-Jordanian treaty to an end. replaced the British subsidy by a pledge of financial help from Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (which only oil-rich Saudi Arabia...
Hellenism." Tall, swart-bearded Archbishop Makarios himself likened his return to Athens in Easter week after a 13-month exile to "Christ's return to Jerusalem." A surging throng, which included the Greek Foreign Minister, senior military officers, and politicians of every hue, was on hand at Athens airport. As his plane touched down and Makarios emerged, smiling glassily (he had been airsick on the flight from Kenya), the crowd roared. Women shrieked and wailed, struggled to kiss his hands and black robe...