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Simon says the disappearance of the passion play is partially explained by the hostility that often went hand in hand with the performances. “There’s no question that if you look at the medieval passion plays, they’re very hard to take. The passion plays which were performed in towns like Frankfurt reflect the anti-Judaism attitude of the townspeople,” he says. “You can’t justify it; it just happened...
Equally wary of the bloody history of the passion play is Plummer Professor of Christian Morals Peter J. Gomes, who teaches Religion 42, “The Christian Bible and Its Interpretations,” and ministers at Memorial Church...
...would have thought just the opposite, that after listening to the Passion, instead of seeing the villainy of the Jews, one would see the magnanimity of God,” he says. “But that doesn’t tend to be the way it’s gone...
Many defenders of the film have argued that, despite the history of the passion play, modern audiences will be able to stomach potentially anti-Semitic material with an open mind. But Fredriksen is particularly pessimistic about The Passion’s potentially detrimental effects. At the end of “Mad Mel,” she concluded that “once its subtitles shift from English to Polish, or Spanish, or French, or Russian,” violence would be inevitable...
...Gomes disagrees with Fredriksen’s notion of The Passion stirring anti-Semitic incidents abroad...