{"id":1767,"date":"2003-09-23T16:09:05","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T06:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/23\/more-on-gibsons-the-passion\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:50:14","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:50:14","slug":"more-on-gibsons-the-passion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/23\/more-on-gibsons-the-passion\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Gibson's 'The Passion'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dad sent me a couple articles over the last few days looking at Mel Gibson’s “The Passion<\/a>“, lately seeming to be the most controversial religious film that almost no one’s seen since Dogma<\/a> was in pre-release. Anyway, if you’re at all interested in the film or the controversy around it, both of these are worth a look.<\/p>\n

\n ‘You Can’t Whitewash the Events of the Bible’<\/a>: New Testament scholar Darrell Bock recently spoke with Beliefnet about Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion,” which dramatizes the last hours of Jesus. Critics–including Catholic biblical scholars and the Anti-Defamation League–have raised concerns about the movie’s historicity and its portrayal of Jewish authorities. Bock saw a rough cut of the film in late August.<\/p>\n

What Mel Missed<\/a>: Most of us have yet to see Mel Gibson’s “The Passion,” but we’ve gained one sure impression: it’s bloody. “I wanted to bring you there,” Gibson told Peter J. Boyer in September 15’s New Yorker magazine. “I wanted to be true to the Gospels. That has never been done before.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dad sent me a couple articles over the last few days looking at Mel Gibson’s ‘The Passion’, lately seeming to be the most controversial religious film that almost no one’s seen since Dogma was in pre-release. Anyway, if you’re at all interested in the film or the controversy around it, both of these are worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2037],"tags":[2075,23,103,2359],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}