Tags
a little bit Jewish, James Crossley, Jeffrey Hunter, Jesus, supercessionism, totally Jewish, ueber Jewish, very Jesus
James Crossley provides an excellent rundown of recent critiques of scholarship’s ambiguous portrayal of Jesus Christ as a Jew.
the contemporary manifestations of ‘pro-Jewish’ rhetoric in NT scholarship is superficial in that it perpetuates the old notions of superiority seemingly more typical of the now so regularly denounced pre-Sanders scholarship. Or, put another way, if we cut through the scholarly rhetoric … have things really changed so much since prior to the 1970s?
Jeffrey Hunter plays a not-very-Jewish-at-all Jesus in "King of Kings"
Deane,
A fun fact about the Jeffrey-Hunter-as-Aryan-Jesus version of ‘King of Kings’:
Test audiences objected to the crucifixion scene, not because of the violence or the fact that Hunter is a strapping blue-eyed blonde, but because of his hairy chest, which was somehow not appropriate.
They shaved (or waxed, I am unclear on the details) Hunter’s body and re-shot the scene for the theatrical release.
It goes to show that these images persist in the popular imagination as much as in the scholarly one, though scholars have fewer excuses and should really know better.
Eric
as much in what scholarly one? Even the crappiest glossiest toothed, crispest collared apologists say he was Jewish now. It’s just that his Jewish face is about the only Jewish thing left about him. I doubty these scholars are imagining a blue eyed Aryan, they’re imagining a super special ‘divine christ’ distinct from anything else. Popular imagination, yes. Especially an American, particularly Republican one.