Scandalizing Jesus?: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years OnDarren J. N. Middleton Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 03 նոյ, 2005 թ. - 288 էջ 2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ. Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses the novel, though not forgetting the movie, in light of one half century's worth of criticism and reception history. Clergy and laity alike have denounced this novel. When it first appeared, the Greek Orthodox Church condemned it, the Vatican placed it on its Index of Forbidden Texts, and conservative-evangelicals around the world protested its allegedly blasphemous portrayal of a human, struggling Messiah who "succumbs" to the devil's final snare while on the Cross: the temptation to happiness. Assuredly, the sentiments surrounding this novel, at least in the first thirty years or so, were very strong. When Martin Scorcese decided in the early 1980s to adapt the novel for the silver screen, even stronger feelings were expressed. Even today his works are seldom studied in Greece, largely because the Greek government is unable or unwilling to anthologize his material for the national curriculum. After fifty years, however, the time seems right to re-examine the novel, the man, and the film, locating Kazantzakis and his work within an important debate about the relationship between religion and art (literary and cinematic). Until now a book-length assessment of Kazantzakis' novel, and the film it inspired, has not appeared. No such volume is planned to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's publication. For those who work in Kazantzakis studies, a focused anthology like this one is missing from library collections. The volume contains original essays by Martin Scorcese, the film critic Peter Chattaway, and Kazantzakis' translator, Peter A. Bien. |
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... Matthew worry about the same problem.21 Jesus grows furious at Matthew when he reads what the publican has been writing about him : " What is this ? ' he screamed . ' Lies ! . . . I was born in Nazareth , not in Bethlehem ; I've never ...
... Matthew worry about the same problem.21 Jesus grows furious at Matthew when he reads what the publican has been writing about him : " What is this ? ' he screamed . ' Lies ! . . . I was born in Nazareth , not in Bethlehem ; I've never ...
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... Matthew's Gospel . Renan believed ( erroneously , as we now know ) that of all the evangelists Matthew was the most authentic , and that in his Gospel we have recorded the actual speeches that Jesus made.32 Accepting this view ...
... Matthew's Gospel . Renan believed ( erroneously , as we now know ) that of all the evangelists Matthew was the most authentic , and that in his Gospel we have recorded the actual speeches that Jesus made.32 Accepting this view ...
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... Matthew the tradition of Joseph's being chosen to receive Mary and keep her in his house because a dove flew out of his rod.56 Then , in chapter 7 of the Gospel of the Nativity [ Birth ] of Mary , a later adaptation of Pseudo - Matthew ...
... Matthew the tradition of Joseph's being chosen to receive Mary and keep her in his house because a dove flew out of his rod.56 Then , in chapter 7 of the Gospel of the Nativity [ Birth ] of Mary , a later adaptation of Pseudo - Matthew ...
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... Matthew , this is modified to include the flower . The story goes that the high priest heard the Lord's voice say : According to the prophecy of Isaiah , a man should be sought out to whom the virgin ought to be entrusted and espoused ...
... Matthew , this is modified to include the flower . The story goes that the high priest heard the Lord's voice say : According to the prophecy of Isaiah , a man should be sought out to whom the virgin ought to be entrusted and espoused ...
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... Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John . By 1955 , the year The Last Temptation first appeared in print , these four Gospels had been analyzed for more than a century and a half , not only as theological docu- ments but also as literary ...
... Matthew , Mark , Luke , and John . By 1955 , the year The Last Temptation first appeared in print , these four Gospels had been analyzed for more than a century and a half , not only as theological docu- ments but also as literary ...
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