Word: crucifixion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Stephan Schaller, a Benedictine headmaster in the neighboring village of Ettal, was commissioned to do a rewrite. Consulting with Jewish groups, he labored to bring the play into line with Catholic teaching since the Second Vatican Council, which decreed that the guilt of some Jews in Christ's crucifixion cannot be applied to all Jews, then...
...committee merely used bits of Schaller's version for a cosmetic touch-up on their old one. The result last week was an uneasy jumble. Some of the sweeping references to the guilt of all Jews were deleted. Others were toned down, but almost imperceptibly: the crucifixion is demanded by "the whole of Jerusalem" instead of "the whole nation." God condemns "these sinners" rather than "this folk." In a new foreword to the text, a local priest argues that the Jews of Jerusalem represent not the "Jewish people" but "all mankind, who by their sins brought about the Lord...
...Jhou-Bey is a 39-year-old Frenchman who makes a living in cabarets by eating fire and piercing his body with swords. He also claims the world's crucifixion record-15 days. "I crucify myself," he explains, "to prove that one does not feel pain if he sets his mind to it." He puts nails partially through his hands and feet, and an assistant completes the task. With Easter approaching, Ben-Jhou-Bey made plans for a crucifixion in Jerusalem's Independence Park. When he showed up with his 11-ft, by 7-ft. pine cross, however...
...myth and mystery, parable and paradox, and straight description of an unusual war. At its center is a brief sketch of a now completed circle of Jewish history -from the Roman razing of the great Temple in Jerusalem and the diaspora, through the aftermath of Christ's crucifixion and Hitler's Final Solution, to the recapture of the Wailing Wall on the Temple grounds by Israeli soldiers in 1967. Outwardly, it is a cycle from defeat to victory. Inwardly, it represents the record of a profound moral dilemma. For the ancient Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed only three...