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If someone asked you to name the origin of a story about gods who take human wives and then give birth to a race of semidivine heroes, you might answer: It’s a Greek myth, or perhaps a Norse legend, or maybe a folktale from Africa or India. Surely this story couldn’t come from the sacred scriptures of Judaism and Christianity. Or could it?
One of Italy’s leading art restorers, Pinin Bracilon, has been working on the restoration of Da Vinci’s “Last Supper” since 1981. Inch by inch the restoration has removed the dust of centuries as well as paint added by previous restorers; both of which had considerably darkened the original.
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The Bible Cookbook
Daniel S. Cutler (New York: William Morrow, 1985) 416 pp., $19.95
Two short Hebrew words connect two pivotal episodes in Abraham’s life.
Prepared by Bill Ickes, Berlin, Pennsylvania.
1. Who were three prophets who communicated God’s will to David?
2. A score of David’s children are mentioned by name, but only one girl. What was her name?
3. Where was God at the second battle in the Valley of Rephaim?
4. Why did David weep on eight occasions recorded in the books of Samuel and Chronicles.?
What controversial book of the Bible includes no miracle and does not mention God? One of the two books of the Hebrew Bible that bear women’s names, it tells the story of a heroine who risks her life to save her people from annihilation. Carey A. Moore, author of the Anchor Bible Esther, has been asked about this complex book so often that he has collected “Eight Questions Most Frequently Asked About the Book of Esther.”
