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...last week the National Government had resisted brownshirt demands that "Hallelujah'' and "Amen"' be expunged from German religious services, but in Hanover the Governor.of the State made it illegal to sing hymns with "Hebrew names." His examples: Jerusalem, High Tower Thy Glorious Walls, Rejoice, Daughters of Zion, and To Thee, Jehovah, I will Sing...
...back his waning popularity, Titus gave freer rein to the antiSemites. Josephus' wife and son left him; his other son (by an earlier marriage) died, partly through his neglect. He went back to Judea, visited the desolate site of what had once been Jerusalem, saw how vexed the land was by its Roman conquerors, by a dangerous new sect called Minaeans or Christians, by the iron orthodoxy of the Jewish doctors of the Law. Sadly he returned to Rome again, determined to be neither hidebound Roman nor hidebound Jew but a citizen of the world. He got back...
...exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal of the internal ear." Quoted from George Eliot's Daniel Deronda was Hep, a cry of the Crusaders, derived from the Latin for "Jerusalem is destroyed...
...very unpleasant," is the way the archaeologist sums up the entire experience. He spent the reminder of the summer in Jerusalem, recuperating and looking over old manuscripts...
...first arrives when Saladin (Ian Keith), the Saracen leader, kidnaps Berengaria. Richard hurries a siege tower, ladders and catapults to the walls of Acre, from which Saladin's soldiers shower arrows, spears and boiling oil. The second comes when, finding that Saladin is not in Acre but Jerusalem, the cavalry of the two armies meet in a head-on collision on the edge of a ditch into which a quorum of men and horses roll with neighs and yelps. With these two scrambles out of the way, there is not much left to happen. Saladin, who turns...