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Paul always quotes from the Greek version of the Hebrew / Aramaic / Syriac Bible. The Greek version is called the Septuagint, and has significant differences from the mainly Hebrew; at the same time, he is vitally aware of Greek culture and its literary heritage; he was probably educated in Greek; while Aramaic was a second language to him. Usually, we speak of Paul or anyone else "sitting at the feet of" Gamaliel or any other mentor, not "sitting under the feet of ..." Gamaliel is said to have tawt 500 rabbinical students in Greek. Many synagogues in the Roman Empire were Greek-speaking and used the Septuagint; Jerusalem seems to have had some Greek-speaking Jewish synagogues, and Saint Stephen the Martyr who was murdered by Paul in a fanatical ritual killing was most likely Greek-speaking and a member of a growing Greek Christian element in a Greek-speaking Jewish synagogue.

Can anyone supply the UN guy's email address? I need to express to him or his office directly the disgust and anger I feel. For him to play politics with this world's biggest donor, donor corporations, group of NGO disaster-relief orgs, churches raising money for far away needs, and individual donors from the very poorest to well ... I'm really not so sure about the very rich. How much will Teresa fork over? Michael Moore? All the Hollywood slut boys and girls? Maybe they could turn a trick or two for Ege Norway who wants all the gifts to be channelled thru his agency ... Did we get any disaster relief for Florida or other places hit by hurricanes? ... At the UN, they get their jollies by being the center of even our own gift-giving. That's what they do at the UN, play the game of putting their outfit at the center without doing anything to meet the bottom line. They don't create wealth or jobs or dividends, they just slurp up ours and damn us for being selfish. All these Eurocountries that disdained the coalition in Iraq, sacrificed no warriors, nor helped pay the financial load. Now they have the gall to call us selfish? This guy should be fired immediately, and I want to tell him so. Send him back to the Norwegian bureaucracy; he'll always have a job.

I understand we can now get Al Jazeera in Canada (on a new pay cable-channel, I believe). But we can't get FoxNews, regarding which I feel we shouldn't have to pay additional cable fees because all the English-language TV channels are one-sidedly Liberal/Left (except one channel which is business-oriented on fiscal matters). In Toronto, I can't get professional American conservative television news such as Fox produces; so much for multiculturalism up here-it's a gimmick with a decided ideological slant against the US and dialogue based on information. I should add that there's a Christian station available available in Toronto and Ottawa, but it's news offerings are not competitive and not even professional in my opinion. One TV commentator on the Christian channel is good, Mike Coren, but he doesn't give an American conservative professional approach which I want because of my cultural heritage and desire to compare; Coren filters everything thru Canadiana. I'm not against his work in anyway, but it's narrow and one nightly show on weekdays I believe. I think I'm entitled to the lead American conservative TV news as part of the free basic offerings for a cable TV line, as we get almost wall-to-wall anti-American slants on everything. I want an alternative in order to be able to compare the two slants, but the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) has rigged what we can legally watch. Besides I can't afford or rig to the landlord's roof an illegal satellite dish, and prefer not to break the law out of religious-moral conviction. In Canada's TV system run by the CRTC and supported by the state-channel, CBC, we're carefully insulated from American conservative info, news, and opinion, insulated and isolated by the state opinion-molding agencies. We're trapped in a censored media-system, but I could pay for Al Jazeera. Oh yeah, school teachers feed the one-sided slant they view on the Canada nationalist Liberal/Leftist TV system (not just CBC the state-owned and financed network), teachers feed this directly to their students, thus the hate-America ideology is extremely strong up here. Drats!