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...booming religious publishing business can boast some overnight bestsellers. A book version of Franco Zefirelli's Jesus of Nazareth, for example, has sold 125,000 copies since its television showing at Easter. Even third-rate spiritual self-help books sell by the hundreds of thousands. At the same time, works of serious theology-like Maverick Swiss Catholic Theologian Hans Küng's treatise On Being a Christian-are receiving widespread attention. Some interesting new books...
...hurrah to NBC for supporting what should be one of the best portrayals of Christ ever put on celluloid-Jesus of Nazareth [April 4]. As for the critics of the production, Bob Jones and his followers, I hope the non-Christian world does not take them too seriously. Jesus dealt with people like this in his day -they were called Pharisees...
...being less than fair in blaming "Protestant right-wingers" for "leaping to the conclusion that the portrayal of Jesus Christ in Jesus of Nazareth would deny Christ's divine nature...
What makes the protesters off-target is that Zeffirelli's Jesus is very much the familiar run of DeMille. Jesus of Nazareth matter-of-factly presents a man, born of a virgin Mary, who rises again from the grave and appears bodily to his disciples. Nor does the film shy away from the miracles. It unquestioningly depicts the feeding of the 5,000, the raising of Lazarus and several healings. It does avoid some miracles, e.g., the walking on water, that would be difficult to portray realistically. At the trial before the Sanhedrin, the High Priest Caiaphas asks Jesus...
...major achievements is to place Jesus solidly within the ethos of 1st century Judaism. At the wedding feast of Mary and Joseph, men perform a chaste dance of celebration. During Jesus' bar mitzvah, Mary gazes with the women from behind the mechitzah (barrier) at the Nazareth synagogue. There are also some deft touches from everyday life. One of the soldiers gripes, "I can hardly wait to get back to Rome," as he ambles down the cemetery path to discover an empty tomb that will change the course of history. Richard N. Ostling...