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Frank Kermode, King Edward VII Professor of English Literature, discussed the relationship between plot and character, dealing primarily with the role of Judas in the passion of the New Testament.
Leading the local campaign to reform the Passion Play is Hans Schwaighofer, 57, who played Judas in 1960 and heads the local woodcarving school. He has long advocated an abridged version of an older text, first performed in 1750, by Father Ferdinand Rosner, a Benedictine poet. Archconservatives on the village...
The new version absolves the Sanhedrin and the Jewish crowds of their traditional role as villains and assigns it to the loutish Roman soldiers. The main instigator of the Crucifixion, however, turns out to be Lucifer. The Evil One mingles with the Jewish street crowds and accompanies Judas on his...
They were gods in Egypt. Some two millenniums before the birth of Christ, cats were buried with the pomp of pharaohs, hi bronze coffins and mausoleums complete with mummified mice for delectation hi the afterlife. A drastic decline from this lordly state occurred when the early Christian church decided that...
Each Jesus film or novel creates its own twist, and with Zeffirelli's version it is the recasting of the great betrayer Judas Iscariot (Ian MacShane). Far from the calculating hypocrite of tradition, the TV Judas is a confused young man who leads the soldiers to Jesus so he...