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An increasingly popular area of religious studies, theology and
biblical studies. Comprehensive coverage for a textbook for courses
on Bible and Film. This new edition includes new pedagogy including
key words, a bibliography of movies and revision questions.
An increasingly popular area of religious studies, theology and
biblical studies. Comprehensive coverage for a textbook for courses
on Bible and Film. This new edition includes new pedagogy including
key words, a bibliography of movies and revision questions.
Movies which have drawn inspiration from the Bible, either
directly or indirectly, have been extremely popular since the
earliest days of cinema. "Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films"
introduces a wide range of those movies, which are among the most
important, critically-acclaimed and highest-grossing films of all
time, including:
- The King of Kings
- Ben-Hur
- The Passion of the Christ
- Frankenstein
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Apocalypse Now
- Monty Python s Life of Brian.
Written by a team of international scholars, the fifty entries
discuss the Biblical stories, characters or motifs depicted in each
film making this book the ideal guide for anyone interested in the
long-standing relationship between the Bible and film.
Movies which have drawn inspiration from the Bible, either
directly or indirectly, have been extremely popular since the
earliest days of cinema. "Bible and Cinema: Fifty Key Films"
introduces a wide range of those movies, which are among the most
important, critically-acclaimed and highest-grossing films of all
time, including:
- The King of Kings
- Ben-Hur
- The Passion of the Christ
- Frankenstein
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Apocalypse Now
- Monty Python s Life of Brian.
Written by a team of international scholars, the fifty entries
discuss the Biblical stories, characters or motifs depicted in each
film making this book the ideal guide for anyone interested in the
long-standing relationship between the Bible and film.
The remarkable, award-winning film, Son of Man (2005), directed by
the South African Mark Dornford-May, sets the Jesus story in a
contemporary, fictional southern African Judea. While news
broadcasts display the political struggles and troubles of this
postcolonial country, moments of magical realism point to
supernatural battles between Satan and Jesus as well. Jesus' Judean
struggle with Satan begins with a haunting reprise of Matthew's
'slaughter of the innocents' and moves forward in a Steve Biko-like
non-violent, community-building ministry, captured in graffiti and
in the video footage that Judas takes to incriminate Jesus. Satan
and the powers seemingly triumph when Jesus 'disappears', but then
Mary creates a community that challenges such injustice by
displaying her son's dead body upon a hillside cross. The film ends
with shots of Jesus among the angels and everyday life in
Khayelitsha (the primary shooting location), auguring hope of a new
humanity (Genesis 1.26). This book's essays situate Son of Man in
its African context, exploring the film's incorporation of local
customs, music, rituals, and events as it constructs an imperial
and postcolonial 'world'. The film is to be seen as an expression
of postcolonial agency, as a call to constructive political action,
as an interpretation of the Gospels, and as a reconfiguration of
the Jesus film tradition. Finally, the essays call attention to
their interested, ideological interpretations by using Son of Man
to raise contemporary ethical, hermeneutical, and theological
questions. As the film itself concisely asks on behalf of the
children featured in it and their politically active mothers,
'Whose world is this'?
Eloquently written and meticulously researched, "Scripture on
the Silver Screen" offers all students of Scripture--whether in an
academic classroom or at home--an inviting new way to further their
biblical literacy. It questions the "Hollywoood Hermeneutic" that
too often views the Bible as prop, but also recognizes the
contributions of movies that successfully integrate the Bible as a
plot-making device. Each chapter begins with a discussion on the
focal Bible passage, placing it in its literary and historical
context, followed by a summary of the film and its main themes.
Current scholarship in the study of ancient Christianity is now
available to nonspecialists through this collection of essays on
anti-Judaism in the New Testament and in New Testament
interpretation. While academic writing can be obscure and popular
writing can be uncritical, this group of experts has striven to
write as simply and clearly as possible on topics that have been
hotly contested. The essays are arranged around the historical
figures and canonical texts that matter most to Christian
communities and whose interpretation has fed the negative
characterizations of Jews and Judaism. A select annotated
bibliography also gives suggestions for further reading. This book
should be an excellent resource for academic courses as well as
adult study groups.
As the Roman-appointed high priest who had a hand in orchestrating
Jesus' crucifixion, Caiaphas secured his place in infamy alongside
Pontius Pilate. But who was Caiaphas really? Adele Reinhartz offers
a thorough reconsideration of Caiaphas in the Gospels and other
ancient texts as well as in subsequent visual arts, literature,
film, and drama. The portrait that emerges challenges long-held
beliefs about this New Testament figure by examining the background
of the high priesthood and exploring the relationships among the
high priest, the Roman leadership, and the Jewish population.
Reinhartz does not seek to exonerate Caiaphas from culpability in
the crucifixion, but she does expand our understanding of
Caiaphas's complex religious and political roles in biblical
literature and his culturally loaded depiction in ongoing
Jewish-Christian dialogue.
The Gospel of John presents its readers, listeners, and
interpreters with a serious problem: how can we reconcile the
Gospel's exalted spirituality and deep knowledge of Judaism with
its portrayal of the Jews as the children of the devil (John 8:44)
who persecuted Christ and his followers? One widespread solution to
this problem is the so-called "expulsion hypothesis." According to
this view, the Fourth Gospel was addressed to a Jewish group of
believers in Christ that had been expelled from the synagogue due
to their faith. The anti-Jewish elements express their natural
resentment of how they had been treated; the Jewish elements of the
Gospel, on the other hand, reflect the Jewishness of this group and
also soften the force of the Gospel's anti-Jewish comments. In Cast
out of the Covenant, this book, Adele Reinhartz presents a detailed
critique of the expulsion hypothesis on literary and historical
grounds. She argues that, far from softening the Gospel's
anti-Jewishness, the Gospel's Jewish elements in fact contribute to
it. Focusing on the Gospel's persuasive language and intentions,
Reinhartz shows that the Gospel's anti-Jewishness is evident not
only in the Gospel's hostile comments about the Jews but also in
its appropriation of Torah, Temple, and Covenant that were so
central to first-century Jewish identity. Through its skillful use
of rhetoric, the Gospel attempts to convince its audience that
God's favor had turned away from the Jews to the Gentiles; that
there is a deep rift between the synagogue and those who confess
Christ as Messiah; and that, in the Gospel's view, this rift was
initiated in Jesus' own lifetime. The Fourth Gospel, Reinhartz
argues, appropriates Jewishness at the same time as it repudiates
Jews. In doing so, it also promotes a "parting of the ways" between
those who believe that Jesus is the messiah, the Son of God, and
those who do not, that is, the Jews. This rhetorical program, she
suggests, may have been used to promote outreach or even an
organized mission to the Gentiles, following in the footsteps of
Paul and his mid-first-century contemporaries.
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