[Alas Babylon!]

I remember a TV movie or miniseries about Jesus with someone literally racing across the ground to tell others about Jesus raising Lazarus, IIRC. The look of marvel and praise on the actor’s face as he was running and shouting was very compelling to me. Does anyone know what production this scene was from?

[Fishtalk]

What with everyone out and about and speaking of things religion, I heard a Jewish fellow speaking on some show or another. And like Obama yo mama and his famous “typical white person” comment, he casually let slip something that I thought might be a typical Jewish comment.

Now the fellow speaking wasn’t being rude or anything. He was mostly speaking about church, temple, the reason for religion and it ain’t to inflame people with hatred, that sort of thing. But he said somewhere in his commentary that “us Jews don’t celebrate the death of God.”

Do Jews really think Christians CELEBRATE the death of Jesus? I mean, beyond Good Friday, there’s no celebration and Good Friday isn’t even a holy day of obligation.

It’s the sort of thing I’ve been noticing lately. Like it’s not so much what “typical” folks of this religion or race feel about their own kind, it’s more what “typical” folks think about OTHER relgions, creeds or races that seems to be off kilter.

[Miss Didi]

Here are the ones they showed in the 60's-70's:

With Max von Sydow:


Zeffirelli's film, with Anne Bancroft and Ernest Borgnine:


With Jeffrey Hunter as Jesus:

[Gritty]

...Jesus raising Lazarus, IIRC. The look of marvel and praise on the actor’s face as he was running and shouting was very compelling to me.

Yes, that was indeed a memorable and powerful scene of an astounding miracle and it was perfectly done. IIRC, the actor was Charlton Heston in Ben-Hur. But, I could well be wrong.