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tobit
3/17/2004 1:34 AM
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Here is an article from the Arizona Dialy New pointing to the probablbity of Gibson's next project while Biblical is not protestant Biblical its the story of the Maccabees yeah the same Maccabess in the dueterocanonical which protestants reject at apocrapaha and for the exception of Anglicans don't even have in thier Bibles. While the books of the Maccabees are exciting and Braveheartesque the very fact they are not in the Reformers canon will have most evangelicals staying away from this project. Anyway this project will have at least protestants asking themselves why these great books are not in their Bibles. THis story would have an appeal to catholics and Orthodox of course and some relgious Jews. But without the support of evangelicals it won't have the Passion like bos office like numbers.
Oh by the way the author of this article is obviously protestant as he doesn not think the books are in either testament and gives no hint it is catholic and orthodox Bibles. THe canon subject will be hot topic for evangelicals once this movie comes out though. And that's a good thing for most never consider where they got the Bible in the first place.
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tobit
3/17/2004 1:43 AM
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http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/accent/13391.php
By the way I heard on Sean Hannity today from Gibson himself that he is interested in the Maccabees story.
He did not metnion Bar Kochba story which was suggested by the Rabbai since he is more familiar with the Maccabees story and it is an important story in our catholic tradtion (its in our old testament) it would have more appeal to him than the stroy of Bar Kochba for instance. The story while not in the Old Testament of the Jews is a widely known oral tradtion that is in the relgious calendar of the Jews better known as Hannakuh. Most protestants besides aglicans have no familiarity of the catholic deuterocanonicals and disparage these books as apocrapaha and read them with protestant eyes trying to poke hole in any theology that diagrees with their rather than just accepting them as histroical documents for thier time. WHeter evangelcials accept them or not it is historically accurate that Jews at that time prayed for the dead and is the root form of our present practice of praying for the dead and purgatory but prots will just say this book is unbibilical.
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tobit
3/17/2004 1:44 AM
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Some speculate filmmaker will return to Bible
By Mark I. Pinsky
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL
Alan Nierob, a spokesman for Gibson and his Icon Films, confirmed that the filmmaker has spoken in several interviews, including one with Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show," about looking to the Old Testament for stories, but said Gibson has not been specific about which stories.
Project may be on Maccabees
The first rumor flitting through the evangelical world is that the filmmaker intends to plow the profits from "The Passion" into a movie about the central characters of the holiday of Hanukkah, fighters called the Maccabees. Their story is told in sacred writings of the biblical period, although the two books of the same name are not officially a part of either testament.
Nearly 200 years before Jesus' birth, religious Jews in the land of Israel rose in violent rebellion against pagan occupiers and their Jewish allies.
A political heir of Alexander the Great, the Syrian Greek emperor Antiochus Epiphanes, tried to impose a single faith and culture throughout his Middle Eastern realm. For Jewish subjects, that meant they could no longer practice their faith. Antiochus banned Sabbath observance and circumcision - on pain of death.
The Maccabean uprising was sparked when a government official compelled a Jew to offer a pagan sacrifice. This sacrilegious act enraged a pious man named Mattathias, who killed the collaborator and the official with his sword and then shouted to the crowd, "Whoever is for the Lord, follow me!"
Mattathias led his five sons and their followers into the hills, from which they launched a protracted guerrilla war, led by his son Judah, a brilliant military tactician. Bloody battles and torture ensued, as the outnumbered believers wore down their enemies, some of whom rode into the fray on armored elephants.
In the end, after Mattathias died and several of his sons were killed in battle, the orthodox Jewish believers triumphed, and the temple in Jerusalem was cleansed and restored to holiness. According to tradition, a remnant of sanctified oil in the temple lamp miraculously burned for eight days, until more could be found.
For Gibson, there are several advantages, apart from a familiar scenario. Having succeeded with subtitles, it should be easy to shift from "The Passion's" Aramaic and Latin to the earlier period's Hebrew and Greek.
Also, since the Maccabee story takes place only 200 years before "The Passion," and peasant fashions probably didn't change much in those days, he could conceivably use many of the same costumes.
Bar Kochba fight also looked at
Recently, the American-born Israeli educator Yossi Katz suggested that Gibson's next film should be a dramatization of the Bar Kochba Revolt of A.D. 132-135. This rebellion took place a century after Jesus' death, and 60 years after a failed uprising against the Roman occupation that led to half a million Jewish deaths and the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.
Writing in a column syndicated to Jewish weekly newspapers, Katz recalled that the Roman emperor Hadrian - like Antiochus Epiphanes - tried to impose paganism on the Jews at sword's point. This time, a sage named Rabbi Akiba and a younger military protégé, Simon Bar Kochba, led the revolt.
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shaner
3/17/2004 10:46 AM
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Hello tobit,
I wasn't aware that Gibson's next project may be another Biblical one, specifically on the Maccabee's.
With his extrordinary talent for story-telling, directing, etc., it would be another compelling Movie to see, especially for we Catholic's, etc. It IS part of our Old Testament, it would make for a fascinating story, but I agree, would it draw out the numbers that "The Passion" has, given the fact as you stated that the Apochrypha isn't an accepted teaching in some other Christian Bibles and faiths. Actually I've never been 100% clear WHY they don't accept it.
Peace!
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