[freebilly]

Interesting background material. Are you planning on seeing the movie?

[Destro]

Yes. In fact I was hoping to hear for the first time Koine Greek being spoken in The Passion. Koine was the world wide Greek dialect spoken at that time and while I have read in it I have never heard it spoken in conversations. So I am kind of bummed from a historian's angle that he may not have this important language in the movie. His website for this movie does not have this language and Greek was one of the 3 languages that proclaimed Jesus, King of the Jews in a plaque nailed overhead. That is unforgivable. Did he do this because Gibson's breakaway Catholic branch is hostile to the Greek church? It could be.

[Destro]

I can certainly appreciate Gibson’s passion to tell the story of the crucifixion realistically. But judging from the movie’s trailer, it’s pretty clear that he didn’t do his research very well. Why, then, the unending accolades about the film’s accuracy? Are reviewers simply unaware of the facts concerning crucifixion and the linguistic milieu of first century Palestine? Or do they dispute these findings? Perhaps their praise is intended more as a general commendation of the movie than as a commentary on the details. I really don’t know. I can, however, say this: caveat spectator.