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Channel 5’s Secrets of the Jesus Tomb

Posted by MattPage on September 5th, 2008

Eighteen months ago James Cameron’s documentary The Lost Tomb of Jesus was grabbing headlines with its controversial claims about the life and death of Jesus. With the news being released so close to the programme’s broadcast there was little time for most experts to get their heads ’round the data before it aired, let alone come to a consensus.

So Tuesday’s Channel Five documentary, Secrets of the Jesus Tomb, was in some ways a welcome response to last year big religion story. After a year and a half of weighing the evidence what had the scholars decided? Read the rest of this entry »

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Helpless Jesus

Posted by MattPage on August 7th, 2008

Ever since the birth of my son on Friday I’ve been thinking a bit about the incarnation - the belief that Jesus gave up his godly role in Heaven to become human. In some ways it’s not that much of a stretch for us to accept a man being God: after all, other religions have made similar claims, and adults, at least, can do so much to change their world. But the thought of a baby being God is totally mind blowing. Read the rest of this entry »

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World’s Oldest Bible Goes Online

Posted by MattPage on August 3rd, 2008

Codex Sinaiticus, a copy of the Bible dating back to around 350 AD, has gone online as part of a project to make the work available to a global audience. As portions of the book currently reside in four different locations (British Library, St. Catherine’s Monastery of Sinai, Leipzig University Library, and the Russian National Library) the new site will also reunite the manuscript once again.

The work is significant for a number of reasons. For a start it contains the oldest complete copy of the New Testament (including the four gospels). It also contains almost all of the Greek Old Testament, and is the oldest surviving book of any kind. It’s called a “Codex” because rather than being written on scrolls the pages were leather bound into a book. The “Sinaiticus” part is named after St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai where it was first discovered by Italian traveller Vitaliano Donati.

The new website features scans of the original pages, as well as a transcription and translations of the pages in different languages. Only the pages of the Codex held at the British library are online so far. The rest will follow in Novemeber and July 2009 by when the project will have reached completion.

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Film Review: Prince Caspian

Posted by MattPage on June 27th, 2008

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The publicity machine for Prince Caspian has been going full throttle for the past month promising a visually stunning action film for all the family. And, as one would hope for a film with a £200 million budget and no big stars to pay, the visuals are fairly stunning. Whilst never hugely original, the camera swoops and pans, captures the nice scenery and gets right in the thick of the action. The CGI is fairly impressive too. I can only recall two films that feature trees coming to life and taking part in a battle and Caspian’s trees blow those from Lord of the Rings clean out of the water. Furthermore, the animals are animated far more smoothly than they were in the first Narnia movie. Reepicheep and Trufflehunter are portrayed so believably that all memories of Warwick Davis’ awful mouse costume from the BBC version of this story were forgotten, at least for a moment. Read the rest of this entry »

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The Anime Jesus Film

Posted by MattPage on June 18th, 2008

The makers of the Jesus film are planning to give it a new look and create an anime style animation to accompany the existing audio tracks. The original film has been translated into over 1000 languages and the film’s owners wanted a way to modernise their product whilst utilising the audio material they had at their disposal.

Enter Barry Cook, co-director of Mulan. After working for Disney for seventeen years he wanted to fulfill his long-held desire to make an anime Jesus film that would be more relevant to the up and coming generation than the 1979 live action original.

The project is still in its very early stages, but in order to canvass opinion the film makers have released a concept video on YouTube which shows two scenes - Jesus casting out a demon and Peter’s denial. There’s also a website where you can give your opinion on these two clips.

Rejesus has modules looking at other portrayals of Jesus in film and faces of Jesus from around the globe.

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Channel 5’s Secrets of the Jesus Tomb

Helpless Jesus

World’s Oldest Bible Goes Online

Film Review: Prince Caspian

The Anime Jesus Film