Christ Killers The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen

Name: Christ Killers The Jews and the Passion from the Bible to the Big Screen
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ISBN: 9780195178418

ISBN-10: 0195178416

ISBN-13: 9780195178418

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jeremy Cohen

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The New Testament accounts of Jesus' crucifixion have stood at the bedrock of Christianity since it's birth in the 1st century, and they remain among the essential foundations of Western culture in the 21st. These Gospel narratives of the Passion - the arrest, trial, scourging, and execution of Jesus - cast the Jews as those responsible, directly and indirectly, for the death of their Messiah and the son of God. Cohen tracks the image of the Jew as the murderer of the Messiah andGod from its origins to its most recent expressions. A great deal has been written about Christian anti-Semitism, its roots, and its horrific consequences in world history. This is the first book, however to focus…

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List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 337
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.61" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



The arrest, trial, and crucifixion of Jesus (selections from Mark 14-15)



The myth and its origins



Good news



"In your blood, live!"



"You killed your Lord"



The myth in history



Ignorance and intention



Fable and fantasy



A myth of many faces



Myth and countermyth



Vatican II



The myth and the arts



The passion in religious art



The passion on stage : Oberammergau



Crucifixion on the screen


Conclusion : "Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him" (Mark 3:19)