Loosely Based on a True Story
The Passion of Jesus Christ in Verbal and Visual Media
John Dominic Crossan
In what follows, I raise first the question of historicity. What, in my best scholarly reconstruction, did and did not happen during that execution? What is Roman history and what is Christian parable? I also raise the question of transition from a verbal to a visual medium in any historical story and especially in this one. Finally, I wonder why Christians who believe they have received a gospel inspired by God in fourfold, that is, manifold format, want so regularly to get it all into one single, composite version.
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