Thursday, June 25, 2015

Gospel of Jesus' Wife in New Testament Studies

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In April 2014, Harvard Theological Review  devoted an issue to the discussion of The Gospel of Jesus' Wife , a fragmentary text thoug...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Tribute to J. Louis Martyn by Joel Marcus

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I am delighted to be able to share the following tribute to J. Louis Martyn by Prof. Joel Marcus, Professor of New Testament and Christian...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Tributes to J. Louis Martyn (1925-2015)

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I was sorry to hear of the death of J. Louis Martyn last week. He is one of the greats of New Testament scholarship. Beverley Gaventa has a ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Montreat Conference Center Lecture Series

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You can join me and Prof. Ziony Zevit for a lecture series at Montreat Conference Center this May. Full details are available here: Mont...
Sunday, March 08, 2015

Finding Jesus Episode 2 tonight on CNN

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Episode 2 of the CNN Original Series, Finding Jesus , airs tonight at 9pm ET/PT. This episode focuses on John the Baptist and features con...
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Thursday, March 05, 2015

The "Apocryphal Urge" in Finding Jesus: A Response to Tony Burke

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Over on Apocryphicity , Tony Burke has a characteristically lively discussion of the first episode of the CNN documentary Finding Jesus : ...
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Sunday, March 01, 2015

Finding Jesus begins tonight on CNN

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CNN begins its six part series, Finding Jesus , tonight at 9pm (ET/PT). Here's the series trailer: And here's a clip from toni...
Monday, February 09, 2015

Killing Jesus -- first look

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I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, but there's another Jesus film on the way this spring -- Killing Jesus.  It's ...

The Nativity (1978)

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While teaching Jesus in Film, I realize that there are still several Jesus films that I have not seen.  One of these is a 1978 TV movie f...
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40 years in Biblical Archaeology with Eric and Carol Meyers

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The latest Biblical Archaeology Review  has a lengthy retrospective on the careers of my Duke colleagues Eric Meyers and Carol Meyers: ...
Tuesday, February 03, 2015

CNN's Finding Jesus

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Beginning on March 1, a new six part documentary series from CNN, Finding Jesus: Faith, Fact, Forgery .  The teaser trailer is now online: ...
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Spelling mistake in Last Temptation of Christ

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The Last Temptation of Christ (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1988) begins with a quotation from Nikos Kazantzakis, but there is a spelling mistake -...
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Sunday, February 01, 2015

Life of Brian's Parody of the Sermon on the Mount in Jesus Films

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The most iconic scene in Life of Brian  is, of course, the opening post-credit scene in which Jesus is delivering the Sermon on the Mount to...
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Friday, January 30, 2015

Life of Brian on Celluloid Jesus

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I've been gradually adding pages to my Celluloid Jesus web pages and the latest additions are Jesus of Nazareth (yesterday) and now als...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Zeffirelli's use of Light and Windows in Jesus of Nazareth

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I have fallen in love anew with Zeffirelli's Jesus of Nazareth over the last week or so as I have watched and re-watched it.  There are ...
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

What have the Romans done for us? - Life of Brian and Jesus of Nazareth

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One of the legendary scenes in Life of Brian  features Judean rebels, led by Reg (John Cleese), asking, "What have the Romans done for...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015

Godspell and the Construction of the Twin Towers

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In my Jesus in Film class today we focused on Godspell  (dir. David Greene, 1973).  It's not my favourite Jesus film at all and so in re...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

Celluloid Jesus: The Christ Film Web Pages are back!

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For many years, I had a series of web pages which I called "Celluloid Jesus: The Christ Film Web Pages".  When we revamped the N...
Saturday, January 10, 2015

King of Kings (1961): Philip Yordan's Script and George Kilpatrick

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I'm continuing to rewatch and research King of Kings (1961) ahead of teaching a class on it on Tuesday.  TCM has this lovely, short cli...
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Carl Holladay to give the Clark Lectures

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This year's Kenneth W. Clark lectures at Duke Divinity School are to be given by Carl Holladay.  Details are here: Clark Lectures 2015...