Jesus in Twentieth-Century Literature, Art and Movies
New York et al.: Continuum (2007), ix, 241 pp.
Contains illustrations
Series: UBC Studies in Religion, 1
ISBN 978-0-8264-2840-0 (hbk); 978-0-8264-2841-7 (pbk)
Introduction, 1
MODERN USES OF BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
1 Imagining Jesus Then and Now: Nino Ricci's Testament / Dietmar Neufeld, 19
2 Transformation of Biblical Methods and Godhead in Norman Mailer's Gospel / Paul C. Burns, 37
ANTITHETICAL TREATMENTS OF MARXISM
3 Jose Saramago's Kakaggelion: The "Badspel" according to Jesus Christ / J. Robert C. Cousland, 55
4 The Master and Margarita and Bulgakov's Antiauthoritarian Jesus / Katherine Sirluck, 75
ROMANTIC AND FREUDIAN APPLICATIONS OF SEXUAL LOVE
5 The Existential Turn: Refiguring Christ from Kazantzakis to Scorsese / Steven Taubeneck, 109
6 D. H. Lawrence's Risen Jesus / Ross Labrie, 127
JEWISH TREATMENTS OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST
7 "Ben-Yosef Is a Jewish Son": Jewish Portrayals of Jesus- Dialectic Reclamation of Presentation and Transformation / Daphna Arbel, 139
8 Crossing Cruci-fictional Boundaries: Transgressive Tropes in Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev / Robert A. Daum, 155
A MUSLIM LIFE OF CHRIST
9 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad's The Genius of Christ: An Innovative Muslim Approach to Jesus / R Peter Ford Jr., 175
TREATMENTS OF CHRIST IN TWO RECENT MOVIES
10 Christology in the Dark: The Da Vinci Code and The Passion of the Christ-What They Tell Us about American Religion Today / Alan F. Segal, 211
MODERN USES OF BIBLICAL EXEGESIS
1 Imagining Jesus Then and Now: Nino Ricci's Testament / Dietmar Neufeld, 19
2 Transformation of Biblical Methods and Godhead in Norman Mailer's Gospel / Paul C. Burns, 37
ANTITHETICAL TREATMENTS OF MARXISM
3 Jose Saramago's Kakaggelion: The "Badspel" according to Jesus Christ / J. Robert C. Cousland, 55
4 The Master and Margarita and Bulgakov's Antiauthoritarian Jesus / Katherine Sirluck, 75
ROMANTIC AND FREUDIAN APPLICATIONS OF SEXUAL LOVE
5 The Existential Turn: Refiguring Christ from Kazantzakis to Scorsese / Steven Taubeneck, 109
6 D. H. Lawrence's Risen Jesus / Ross Labrie, 127
JEWISH TREATMENTS OF THE CRUCIFIED CHRIST
7 "Ben-Yosef Is a Jewish Son": Jewish Portrayals of Jesus- Dialectic Reclamation of Presentation and Transformation / Daphna Arbel, 139
8 Crossing Cruci-fictional Boundaries: Transgressive Tropes in Chaim Potok's My Name Is Asher Lev / Robert A. Daum, 155
A MUSLIM LIFE OF CHRIST
9 'Abbas Mahmud al-'Aqqad's The Genius of Christ: An Innovative Muslim Approach to Jesus / R Peter Ford Jr., 175
TREATMENTS OF CHRIST IN TWO RECENT MOVIES
10 Christology in the Dark: The Da Vinci Code and The Passion of the Christ-What They Tell Us about American Religion Today / Alan F. Segal, 211
