The Gentleman and the Jew: Twenty-five Centuries of Conflict in Manners and MoralsBehrman House, 1977 - 325 pages |
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Page 202
... position . To live themselves into the Bible , the nations needed their own extensions of it , resulting from the appli- cation of its method to their separate histories and the makers of them . And either this will yet come about for ...
... position . To live themselves into the Bible , the nations needed their own extensions of it , resulting from the appli- cation of its method to their separate histories and the makers of them . And either this will yet come about for ...
Page 213
... position ( I do not mean geographic , social , or political position ) . They are a reminder of the split in the personality of Chris- tendom ; their presence in the world today gives presentness also to the New Testament , and draws ...
... position ( I do not mean geographic , social , or political position ) . They are a reminder of the split in the personality of Chris- tendom ; their presence in the world today gives presentness also to the New Testament , and draws ...
Page 281
... position to position ( we are apt to forget that time of the world's humiliation ) until it seemed that nothing worth fighting for was going to be left : nothing , that is , except life itself , which as a bleak , unadorned concept is ...
... position to position ( we are apt to forget that time of the world's humiliation ) until it seemed that nothing worth fighting for was going to be left : nothing , that is , except life itself , which as a bleak , unadorned concept is ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I Public and Personal | 3 |
BOOK ONE THE PAGANS AND I | 7 |
Beginnings 99 | 19 |
Copyright | |
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