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...beauty, and with the final text "in pace," the souls of the righteous seem to float off into space and come eternally to rest in Abraham's bosom. The Lamentations of Jeremiah, an entirely different sort of thing, takes as its subject the Biblical account of the fall of Jerusalem, and achieves its effect of sustained grief by a certain pitched, calculated monotony. Now and then a sharper twist of phrase suggests the weeping and gnashing of teeth, sackcloth and ashes of the historical Jeremiah, but for the most part the rhapsodic wildness of the prophet does not break through...
Nowhere is it affirmed that Moses maintained that Yahweh alone existed." Professor Shalom Spiegel of Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion reported the discovery of a seal inscribed to Ge-daliah, the puppet Hebrew regent whom Nebuchadnezzar set up after he conquered Jerusalem in 589 B.C. to rule over the few Judeans he did not take back to Babylon...
Excavations at Ezion-geber ("Solomon's Singapore") at the head of the eastern spur of the Red Sea have revealed "architectural, engineering and metallurgical skills which, in some respects, have hardly been excelled today." reported Archeologist Nelson Glueck. director of the American School of Oriental Research at Jerusalem. Important as a naval base and port. Ezion-geber was still more important as the greatest copper and iron smelting town of antiquity. The diggings have shown that "it was the largest single armament centre of the day, and played an exceedingly important role in furnishing arms for the tremendous...
...Everett K. Bray, Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian...
...Jerusalem meanwhile, the Aga Khan's energetic son Aly Khan broadcast an appeal to all Mohammedans: "Help Britain with all your energy. Religious freedom has received what appears to be a death sentence in those countries which have fallen under totalitarian regimes, whereas it exists untrammeled in all Mohammedan countries where there is British influence...