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...Number of people on the set of Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of Christ who were struck by lightning during five months of shooting. Actor Jim Caviezel, who plays Jesus, was hit once; assistant director Jan Michelini was struck twice...
...Jews who would come after them. So, according to Vatican II, some Jews of the first century are to blame for Jesus’ death, but their guilt is not inherited by later generations and does not allow later Christians to accuse later Jews of being “Christ-killers...
...they do so, does the movie make clear that these are people who lived long ago and who are not speaking for anyone other than themselves? Or does the movie imply, as all medieval passion plays unmistakably implied, that Jews of all generations somehow bear the guilt of murdering Christ and that Jewish “Christ-killers” are with us still? This is the question that needs to be asked in deciding whether the movie and Gibson are anti-Jewish...
...controversy arises from Gibson’s latest directorial effort, The Passion, a supposedly historically accurate version of the events leading to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Gibson, who co-wrote the script, utilized various sources to compile the series of events, ranging from the four Gospels themselves to the diary of a vehemently anti-Semitic 19th century nun. He had the script translated into Aramaic, Latin and Hebrew and then assembled a cast whose only recognizable names were Jim Caviezel (Frequency) and Monica Bellucci (The Matrix Reloaded...
...despite Gibson’s assertions of the film’s adherence to both historical fact and the New Testament, academics have challenged everything from its severe portrayal of Jews to his subversive self-association with Christ...