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stephan huller · 03-18-2013, 08:05 AM

political firestorm as Satan in series looks like Obama

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/...ike-obama.html

Toto · 03-25-2013, 02:15 PM

Tom Verenna has a pertinent comment here

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Somehow four Gospels were, for the most part, accepted into a canon and appreciated as they were–with all of their complexities and nuance, with their competing theological narratives, with their chronological disparities.
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But isn’t it interesting that when a miniseries does the same thing as the Gospel authors, many of us just cannot deal with it? So the producers have a square script in the wrong period. So what? Matthew includes a scene where Herod goes about ordering the killing of a bunch of infants (which never happened). Luke feels it is completely acceptable to add a census at the wrong time. And lest we forget, Josephus and Philo were quite capable of rewriting the Bible in bizarre and inaccurate ways; Josephus has Alexander the Great reading the book of Daniel for goodness sake; a book which at that time would not be inked for another 160 years or more! Philo has Heraclitus stealing philosophical ideas from Moses; if you want to talk about inaccuracies and historical improbabilities, look no further than the first century CE.

Toto · 03-25-2013, 07:40 PM

Worse than reality TV

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Moreover, the show airbrushes or omits anything even remotely uncomfortable: slaves are referred to as "servants", all marriages are made to look monogamous, and violence is mostly portrayed as either God's will or the actions of villains. Per the scholar Wil Gafney:

"The Bible is a wonderfully rich, complicated, challenging, illuminating, revelatory text. It is also horrifically violent and does not say what we want the way we want it to."

Great but ambiguous stories – the one where God and the devil ruin a man's life on a bet, for instance – have no place in this series. One suspects they skip the Ten Commandments because of that bit when Moses crashes the party round a golden calf. Don't expect to see any of the really dark or strange stuff, either, like what happens to Lot after his wife turns to salt. But as Professor Paul Harvey points out, the show has courted its audience effusively.

outhouse · 03-25-2013, 10:44 PM

It took me a few weeks to finish the first one, I deleted all the recordings to come.

Crappy acting, crappy details, and what they were trying to claim as holding as true to the book as possible, they failed miserably at that as well due to time constraints.

It just felt half done.

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03-18-2013, 08:05 AM	#51
stephan huller Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: seattle, wa Posts: 9,337	political firestorm as Satan in series looks like Obama http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/...ike-obama.html

03-25-2013, 10:44 PM	#54
outhouse Veteran Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Auburn ca Posts: 4,269	It took me a few weeks to finish the first one, I deleted all the recordings to come. Crappy acting, crappy details, and what they were trying to claim as holding as true to the book as possible, they failed miserably at that as well due to time constraints. It just felt half done.

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