Oh My God! Mel Gibson Wants to do the Story of Maccabees!

Sean Hannity | 3/16/04 | self

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

On Hannity, he was talking to Mel Gibson about other stories in the bible.

When Sean asked him what one he'd like to do, he said the book of Maccabees!

This is of course the book which, from the Catholic viewpoint, Luther removed from the bible due to praying for the dead, but it also covers the exciting period after the Jewish return from Babylon when the Greek general Anticus Epiphanies took over the rule of Israel.

This really is block buster material and opens up the whole debate of the Catholic bible vs. the Protestant one.

What is your freeper reaction?

[per loin]

Abe Foxman from the ADL has already come out against the movie.

[tiamat]

Good story!

Go Mel, Go!

[AreaMan]

This really is block buster material and opens up the whole debate of the Catholic bible vs. the Protestant one. What is your freeper reaction?

I'm cool with it as long as Mel doesn't refer to Martin Luther as "the arch heretic"

[isthisnickcool]

I predicted that "The Passion" would be the most watched movie in history. I still think it will be.

One thing is for sure. Gibson will be able to make any movie he wants from now on. I hope he makes one on the topic he was discussing.

If you listen to Gibson he seems kinda "off balance" but brilliant.

[Dataman]

Maccabees is not a Catholic vs Protestant issue.

I Maccabees is an accurate account of the battles during the intertestamental period. It is an excellent choice for a movie.

I & II Maccabees are in the apocrypha. The issue isn't their accuracy but their inspiration-- something that would not touch the movie. Even Luther included them in an appendix and said they were excellent material-- though not inspired.

[RightWhale]

It's his money, he can make any movie he wants. It should be good theater if not good drama.

[CindyDawg]

What is your freeper reaction?

oh yea

[george wythe]

This is of course the book which, from the Catholic viewpoint, Luther removed from the bible due to praying for the dead, but it also covers the exciting period after the Jewish return from Babylon when the Greek general Anticus Epiphanies took over the rule of Israel.

IIRC, it's not just the Catholic viewpoint.

Two of the main branches of Christianity, the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox, accept the Maccabees as part of the canon.

Only the smallest branch of Christianity, Protestantism, does not recognize the Maccabees as part of the canon, although there might be exceptions among Protestants

For instance, Anglicans/Episcopalians do not outright reject the books.

At any rate, I hope a Freeper more knowledgeable than me will post a more accurate description of the status of the Maccabees in the universal Church.

[KriegerGeist]

The Apocrypha including the book of Maccabees was cannonized and then un-cannonized by the early "Church Fathers". Either way, it is a valid book of the Bible...maybe not as important as the law and the prophets, but historically valid and accurate. I think that as Mel stated, that it would make a great story. This Protestant would go and see it. I think Peter Jackson could do a great Revelation too, if he put the same energy in to it as he did the Lord of the Rings.

[leadpenny]

Did Hannity know what Gibson was talking about?

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Right, which leads one to wonder, where did he get the authority do change the bible?

[marron]

I'm all for it. It is an obscure period of history that needs to have some light shined on it.

Protestants may have reservations about the Book of Maccabees as scripture but that takes nothing away from it as history. And because they don't normally study it, they like most every one else could use the history lesson. The period of time between the Persians and the Romans is almost a blank page for most people.

[Alouette]

Abe Foxman from the ADL has already come out against the movie.

Alouette from Free Republic says go for it!

[rightwingcrazy]

Might incite anti-Hellenism.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Sorry, that is where did Luther get the authority TO change the bible...

[maestro]

Oh My God! Mel Gibson Wants to do the Story of The Council of Trent'!

/sarcasm

[Betaille]

"Abe Foxman from the ADL has already come out against the movie."
Are you serious or just giving the ADL a jab. If you're serious, I'm gonna write Foxman the angriest letter I have ever written anyone. As a Jewish-American I feel that I should have some input over what my supposed leaders say.

[Asclepius]

When Sean asked him what one he'd like to do, he said the book of Maccabees!

Imagine, fellow Freakers, the cinematic representation of the Salucid Anarch, Antiochus Epiphanes, precursor of the anti-christ, the abomination of desolation standing in the place where it ought not, prophaning the alter of the Most High with a dagger to the throat of a pig.

Could a film like this inspire our Jewish brothers and sisters to restore their temple?

Well, probably not. But it would make for damned appetizing theater, don't you think?

[Hollywoodghost]

Mel needs to make a movie about 9-11 so people will not forget. There is a story worthy of his genius. Too many Americans have forgotten the terror of that day. We need to know what it was like in the towers, trapped in the elevators, left on the smoke filled roofs and yes, inside the airplane cabins. Its a movie Hollywood will never touch.