"The Passion of the Christ" was an extraordinary media event. But the film has also, and more importantly, been a religious phenomenon. Mel Gibson's professed intent was to create not just a cinematic experience but a spiritual one. And he has succeeded for many moviegoers, most notably evangelical Christians, of whom millions have embraced the film as a presentation of Holy Scripture, a twenty-first century incarnation of the Word. In this volume, biblical scholars Timothy K. Beal and Tod Linafelt along with an esteemed group of contributors offer a provocative range of views on "The...
"The Passion of the Christ" was an extraordinary media event. But the film has also, and more importantly, been a religious phenomenon. Mel Gibson's p...
Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish Christian difference as an effect of translation. Subjecting translation to a theological-political analysis, Seidman asks how the charged Jewish Christian relationship and more particularly the dependence of Christianity on the texts and translations of a rival religion has haunted the theory and practice of translation in the West. Bringing together central issues in translation studies with episodes in Jewish Christian history, Naomi Seidman considers a...
Faithful Renderings reads translation history through the lens of Jewish Christian difference and, conversely, views Jewish Christian differenc...
