LEO@pine.circa.ufl.edu (Leo Wierzbowski) (01/24/91)
If you send a one-line mail message, GET BTR10 TXT to LISTSERV@ucf1vm (bitnet) you will receive the latest issue of The Bible Truth Review. Here are its contents: The Bible Truth Review Issue No. 10 (January 10, 1991) In This Issue "Helps by the Way. No. 5. The Greek Prepositions." by Charles H. Welch in The Berean Expositor, circa 1912-13. This installment: Dia. "Judging #1" by J. McEown in Bible Explorations, Vol. 1 No. 8, August 1987. This installment: How Judging Began. "The Parables. No. 5. The Hidden Leaven and the Hidden Treasure." by Charles H. Welch in The Berean Expositor, circa 1912-13. "The Sovereignty of God #6" by Oscar M. Baker in Truth For Today, Vol. 40 No. 10, December 1990. Sixth in the series discussing His limited sovereignty (in answer to Universal Reconciliationists). "The Word 'Today' in Luke 23:43" by Leo Wierzbowski. "The Wages of Sin. No. 8. Concordance Study." by Charles H. Welch in The Berean Expositor, circa 1914-15. The final installment in this series. Yours in Christ Jesus, Leo in which the scholar, calling himself an "anti-Judaist," declared that Judaism is a "horrible" religion with "racist" origins that in principle should not exist at all. "The correct answer of Jews to Christianity is to become Christian," said Strugnell, who denies he is an anti-Semite. Harvard Divinity School's acting dean, Mark Edwards, declared those opinions to be "personally repugnant." Scholars had gossiped about Strugnell's views long before the @it(Ha'aretz) incident. As Washington's @it(Biblical Archaeology Review) released English excerpts from the interview, Strugnell's five colleagues on the scrolls team said they had already called for their boss's removal, citing his health problems -- among other things, he was known to be a heavy drinker -- and unspecified "complications." Strugnell won the top editorship in 1987 owing to his long involvement with the scrolls. He then faced growing scholarly anger because, 43 years after the first documents were discovered, one-fifth or more of the scrolls are still unpublished and unavailable to academe. His five colleagues on the scrolls team cited the delays as a reason to remove Strugnell, but other experts contend that he has worked to end the logjam. Despite last week's firing, Strugnell retains scholarly rights to many important scrolls. The project is now under a three-man directorship led by Emanuel Tov of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, who says the new arrangement should "speed things up." But a speedup is not enough for @it(Biblical Archaeology Review), which contends that only full access to photographs of unpublished texts will end the "scandal" of neglect. Time 14 Jan 91 p. 63