Burns' collection--taken from a conference at a 2004 regional SBL meeting--explores the ways in which these portraits of Jesus continue to fulfill the familiar observation that people tend to depict Jesus in their own image.
In the twentieth century a number of novelists, artists, and filmmakers, resurrected the life of Jesus genre, made so popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Renan, Strauss, and others. In addition, novelists Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, and Ricci have written their own "gospels." Burns' collection explores the ways in which these portraits of Jesus continue to fulfil the familiar observation that people tend to depict Jesus in their own image. In several of the portraits of Jesus, the artists offer a creative response to the realities of the human condition of our time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: Nino Ricci's Testament: A Creative Re-examination Using the Jesus Seminar
Chapter Two: Norman Mailer's Gospel: Intertextuality and Conflicted Divinity
Chapter Three: Kazantzakis' Passion: Tension in the Human Christ
Chapter Four: Lawrence's Man Who Died: A Sexualized Risen Christ
Chapter Five: Saramago's Gospel: "Kakaggelia," the Badspell according to Jesus Christ
Chapter Six: Bulgakov's Master and Marguerita: Jesus Subverts a Marxist State
Chapter Seven: Jewish Portrayals of Jesus: Reclamation of Presentation and Transformation
Chapter Eight: Potok's Asher Lev: Crossing Crucifictional Boundaries
Chapter Nine: al-'Aqqad's Genius of Christ: An Innovative Muslim Approach to Christ
In the twentieth century a number of novelists, artists, and filmmakers, resurrected the life of Jesus genre, made so popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Renan, Strauss, and others. In addition, novelists Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, and Ricci have written their own "gospels." Burns' collection explores the ways in which these portraits of Jesus continue to fulfil the familiar observation that people tend to depict Jesus in their own image. In several of the portraits of Jesus, the artists offer a creative response to the realities of the human condition of our time.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter One: Nino Ricci's Testament: A Creative Re-examination Using the Jesus Seminar
Chapter Two: Norman Mailer's Gospel: Intertextuality and Conflicted Divinity
Chapter Three: Kazantzakis' Passion: Tension in the Human Christ
Chapter Four: Lawrence's Man Who Died: A Sexualized Risen Christ
Chapter Five: Saramago's Gospel: "Kakaggelia," the Badspell according to Jesus Christ
Chapter Six: Bulgakov's Master and Marguerita: Jesus Subverts a Marxist State
Chapter Seven: Jewish Portrayals of Jesus: Reclamation of Presentation and Transformation
Chapter Eight: Potok's Asher Lev: Crossing Crucifictional Boundaries
Chapter Nine: al-'Aqqad's Genius of Christ: An Innovative Muslim Approach to Christ


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