Alan Segal on the Gospel of John

A fascinating article has just appeared on Beliefnet -- Alan Segal's reflections on the Gospel of John film:

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Segal was one of the advisory committee convened by Peter Richardson. There are some encouraging signs here, e.g. Segal informs us that the advisory committee asked the crew to re-work the synagogue when it turned out that they had based it on a third century model. He concludes the article with some thoughts also about reports about The Passion. What I think this all puts the lie to is the charge allegedly made by Mel Gibson, "Just get an academic on board if you want to pervert something". It's really refreshing to hear of academics working together with film-makers and coming up with something admirable.