GR-related: Judas in new Jesus film

[pynchonoid]

Given the attention Pynchon pays to Judas and Jesus in
Gravity's Rainbow, some of you may be interested in
these articles about the new Mel Gibson movie:

The Passion of the Christ: Cover your eyes - but
wonder
by Judy Coode

[...] it seems clear that Gibson feels some connection
to Judas Iscariot, whose final hours and tremendous
mental anguish after Jesus' arrest are given much
attention in the first half of the film. [...]
<http://go.sojo.net/ct/X1qYe0S1nQII/>

More perspectives on The Passion of the Christ:

Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun magazine asserts that
it's
necessary for Christians to understand the history of
how the
Passion stories functioned to incite hatred of Jews -
and how
renewal movements have rightly identified that legacy
as a
distortion of the gospel of love. Read more at:
<http://go.sojo.net/ct/XpqYe0S1nQIj/>

Robert M. Franklin of Emory University's Candler
School of
Theology suggests that Gibson's unrelenting depiction
of
Christ's sufferings may subvert the sanitized images
of Jesus
held by many American churches, and resonate with a
theology
that emphasizes the humanity, marginalization, and
unjust
victimization of Jesus. Read more at:
<http://go.sojo.net/ct/X7qYe0S1nQIu/>

James Carroll of the Boston Globe denounces Gibson's
film as
near-pornographic in its violence, and anti-Semitic in
its
prejudiced selection of details - of which he analyzes
several.
Read more at:
<http://go.sojo.net/ct/e1qYe0S1nQIe//>

Roger Ebert of the The Chicago Sun-Times says, "This
is the most
violent film I have ever seen" - and he watches movies
for a
living. But the former altar boy credits the film with
providing
him for the first time in his life with a "visceral
idea of what
the Passion consisted of," and asserts that it indicts
both
Roman and Jewish authorities while balancing its
depiction of
Jews with sympathetic characters as well. Read more
at:
<http://go.sojo.net/ct/rdqYe0S1nQIn/>

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 26-February-2004



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