>On 8/3/07, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
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>>Bob Wrubel wrote:
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>>>You probably know the English novelist AN Wilson's
>>>book on Jesus. He deals easily with the textual
>>>issues, scraping away accretions to find the plausible
>>>figure of an original character...
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>>And Kazantzakis' exceptional Last Temptation of Christ and Scorsese's fine
>>film rendition of it.
>>
Last Temptation seemed deep -- overcoming dualism and all that, Judas
having to be Judas in order to fulfill the Word, yadda, yadda -- but I
think the whole thing was actually an elaborate justification for
Kazantsakis' collaboration during WWII.
Joanna