SBL Conference on the Passion of the Christ

NT Gateway Weblog ^ | 11-26-04 | Mark Goodacre

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Sunday, 7 p.m.: one of the ballrooms hosts an event entitled "An Interview with the Writers of the Passion." The writers in question were Benedict Fitzgerald, co-screenwriter, and William J. Fulco, S.J., the film's theological consultant, who was responsible for the translations to Aramaic and Latin. They sat in armchairs on the stage, and were joined by Clayton Jefford and Alice Bach.

David Shepherd did a pretty good job of conducting the interview and frankly it would probably have been better if it was just him with Fulco and Fitzgerald since the other two did not add much to the mix. Jefford spoke only occasionally and looked like he didn't know why he was there. And I wondered whether Alice Bach was a little starstruck; she did not ask any difficult questions of Fulco or Fitzgerald and the only negative reaction she gave in the session was balking at Fulco's use of the terms "man" and "macho" to describe Jesus. And she was a little touchy-feely with Fitzgerald as if very pleased to be sitting up there with him.

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The interview are in two parts: http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2004/11/sbl-passion-of-christ-interview-fulco.html http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2004/11/sbl-passion-of-christ-session-1.html

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http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2004/11/sbl-passion-of-christ-session-1.html

and part two is here:

http://ntgateway.com/weblog/2004/11/sbl-passion-of-christ-interview-fulco.html

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