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Is study really the highest form of worship?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Graham Crabtree, a geneticist from Stanford University in California, reckons that if an ancient Greek was transported to today, he would be among the cleverest people alive. The reason, he states, is our gradual intellectual decline over the past three thousand years. Certainly, our current culture doesn\u2019t encourage people to over-think, with decision making tending to be informed by emotions, public opinion and fear rather than rational thought. Now, what about an ancient Jew, how would he cope in the modern world? It\u2019s hard to speculate on his intellectual capacity but one thing is sure is that the scope of his knowledge in one area would be truly outstanding, his knowledge of the\u00a0Hebrew Scriptures<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n