Jesus in Twentieth Century Literature, Art, and Movies

by Burns, Paul C.

• ISBN13: 9780826428400
• ISBN10: 0826428401
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781441105035
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-07-15
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Jesus in Twentieth Century Literature, Art, and Movies presents a context for discussing the continuing treatments of Jesus by creative writers and artists in our culture. This wide-ranging edited collection provides not only an opportunity to explore competing versions of humanity, but also to engage in a responsible discourse that crosses conventional cultural boundaries. It is evident that a wide variety of sometimes competing models of Jesus have emerged-and with many of these, perspectives of religious faith, biblical scholarship, and critical theology can be effectively engaged.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Modern Uses of Biblical Exegesis
Imagining Jesus Then and Now: Nino Ricci's Testament	p. 19
Transformation of Biblical Methods and Godhead in Norman Mailer's Gospel	p. 37
Antithetical Treatments of Marxism
Jose Saramago's Kakaggelion: The "Badspel" according to Jesus Christ	p. 55
The Master and Margarita and Bulgakov's Antiauthoritarian Jesus	p. 75
Romantic and Freudian Applications of Sexual Love
The Existential Turn: Refiguring Christ from Kazantzakis to Scorsese	p. 109
D. H. Lawrence's Risen Jesus	p. 127
Jewish Treatments of the Crucified Christ
"Ben-Yosef Is a Jewish Son": Jewish Portrayals of Jesus-Dialectic Reclamation of Presentation and Transformation	p. 139
Crossing Cruci-fictional Boundaries: Transgressive Tropes in Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev	p. 155
A Muslim Life of Christ
'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad's The Genius of Christ: An Innovative Muslim Approach to Jesus	p. 175
Treatments of Christ in Two Recent Movies
Christology in the Dark: The Da Vinci Code and The Passion of the Christ-What They Tell Us about American Religion Today	p. 211
Bibliography	p. 223
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