Mel Gibson's Passion: The Film, the Controversy, and Its Implications

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Contents Introduction 1 Section 1: Reflections on the Film 1 Review of The Passion of the Christ Irving Greenberg 7 2 Gibson at the Crossroads Penny Wheeler 13 3 Gibson’s Passion Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan 21 4 Where Are the Flies? Where Is the Smoke? The Real and Super-Real in Mel Gibson’s The Passion Bruce Zuckerman 31 5 How Austrians Viewed The Passion of the Christ Klaus Hödl 39 6 Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the “Via Media” Richard Holdredge 45 Section 2: Scriptural Jesus and Gibson’s Passion 7 The Quest of the Historical Jesus Revisited: Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ Peter Haas 57 8 The Jewish Jesus: A Partisan’s Imagination Zev Garber 63 9 History, Archaeology, and Mel Gibson’s Passion Gordon D. Young 70 10 Where Is the History in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ? S. Scott Bartchy 76 11 Reflections on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ Louis H. Feldman 93 12 Crucifixion in Rabbinic Context: Juridical or Theological? Jacob Neusner 108 Section 3: Diversity and Dialogue 13 Dramatizing the Passion: From Oberammergau to Gibson Gordon R. Mork 117 14 Deicide Déjà vu: Mel Gibson’s Film The Passion— An Attack on Forty Years of Jewish-Christian Dialogue Samuel Edelman and Carol Edelman 124 15 Gibson’s Passion: The Challenges for Catholics John T. Pawlikowski 129 16 Gibson’s Passion on a Catholic Campus Richard Libowitz 134 17 Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: A Protestant Perspective James F. Moore 140 18 Jewish “Officialdom” and The Passion of the Christ: Who Said What and What Did They Say? Steven Leonard Jacobs 144 19 A View from the Pew on Gibson’s Passion Stuart D. Robertson 154 20 The Passion of the Christ and Congregational Interfaith Relations Joseph A. Edelheit 159 Bibliography 165 Contributors 175 Index 177 Mel Gibson’s Passion ...