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Raymond Brown was one who did not. Brown, author of the landmark work The Birth of the Messiah, dean of historical Jesus scholars until his death in 1998 and a Sulpician priest, observed that the idea of divine conception in the womb appeared to be part of a theological progression. The very first Christians thought that Jesus had become God's Son at his Resurrection; Mark, the first Gospel written, seemed to locate the moment at his baptism in the Jordan; and it is only by the time that Matthew and Luke were writing that believers had dated his Sonship...
...endeavor, as Almodovar throws a heavy curveball at the audience halfway through the film that sends it in a completely different direction. While at first, Bad Education is a disturbing examination of Franco-era religious education—weaving between flashbacks of the child Ignacio dealing with a rapist priest and his adult, drag queen incarnation (Gael Garcia Bernal)—it abruptly becomes a noirish melodrama after a left-field revelation involving Ignacio and his suspect motivations...
...Pharaoh of a band of farmers in ancient Egypt, and your job is to create a bustling economy and build a pyramid. The graphics are so detailed, you can zoom right up to your citizens' faces. Is the Menun'sheni family working? Will little Aswad become a priest? Only you can improve their lot. Ancient Egypt has never been this up close and personal...
...Pharaoh of a band of farmers in ancient Egypt, and your job is to create a bustling economy and build a pyramid. The graphics are so detailed, you can zoom right up to your citizens' faces. Is the Menun'sheni family working? Will little Aswad become a priest? Only you can improve their lot. Ancient Egypt has never been this up close and personal...
...Pharaoh of a band of farmers in ancient Egypt, and your job is to create a bustling economy and build a pyramid. The graphics are so detailed, you can zoom right up to your citizens' faces. Is the Menun'sheni family working? Will little Aswad become a priest? Only you can improve their lot. Ancient Egypt has never been this up close and personal. --By Chris Taylor