Bible Texts Misused in Rumsfeld Reports, Religious Leaders Say - Los Angeles Times - ZN
Ph.D., 1992, Brandeis University, Dept. of near Eastern and Judaic Studies Dissertation Topic: The Religious Ethics of Samuel David Luzzatto
M.A., 1988, Brandeis University, Dept. of near Eastern and Judaic Studies
Chicago — One passage plucked from the New Testament's Epistle to the Ephesians instructs believers to "put on the full armor of God.
"An excerpt from the Old Testament's Isaiah directs them to "open the gates that the righteous nation may enter."
As American troops fought in Iraq in 2003, these biblical verses and others reportedly prefaced intelligence reports approved by then-Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld.
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