From j.vanaken@chello.nl Sun Mar 9 00:31:19 2003 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h298VICK018094 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 00:31:19 -0800 Received: from amsfep13-int.chello.nl (amsfep13-int.chello.nl [213.46.243.24]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW03.03/8.12.1+UW03.02) with ESMTP id h298VGCc012209 for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 00:31:17 -0800 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by amsfep13-int.chello.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.17 201-253-122-126-117-20021021) with SMTP id <20030309083115.LRLE19785.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@localhost> for ; Sun, 9 Mar 2003 09:31:15 +0100 X-Mailer: Openwave WebEngine, version 2.8.8 (webedge20-101-183-105-20021108) From: Reply-To: j.vanaken@chello.nl To: Subject: Re: Mel Gibson Asked to Reconsider Jesus Film Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 9:31:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030309083115.LRLE19785.amsfep13-int.chello.nl@localhost> X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=XXIIII, Probability=24%, Report="INVALID_DATE, NO_REAL_NAME, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, __EVITE_CTYPE, __HAS_X_MAILER" The truth? Truth in a historic or in a religious sense, that's the question. Is there really any evidence that Jesus really existed? jva > > van: Jack Kolb > datum: 2003/03/09 zo AM 07:51:47 CET > aan: classics@u.washington.edu > onderwerp: Mel Gibson Asked to Reconsider Jesus Film > > "What concerns me, however is when I read that the film's purpose is to > undo the changes made by Vatican II." > > March 8, 2003 > > LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A prominent Jewish leader on Friday asked actor > Mel Gibson to make certain that his new film on the last 12 hours in the > life of Christ does not portray the Jews as collectively responsible for > the crucifixion. > > Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, said > he was concerned because an article to be published in the New York Times > Magazine portrays Gibson as a traditionalist Catholic opposed to the > reforms of Vatican II. > > Heir said, "Obviously, no one has seen 'The Passion' and I certainly have > no problem with Mel Gibson's right to believe as he sees fit or make any > movie he wants to. What concerns me, however is when I read that the > film's purpose is to undo the changes made by Vatican II." > > He said that Vatican conclave was convened to deal with several critical > issues, including the rejection of the notion that the Jews were > collectively responsible for the death of Jesus. > > "If the new film seeks to undo Vatican II ... it would unleash more of the > scurrilous charges of deicide directed against the Jewish people, which > took the Catholic Church 20 centuries to finally repudiate," he said. > > Gibson is completing the self-financed film on the last 12 hours in the > life of Christ and a friend of the Gibson family is quoted as telling the > Times that Gibson will graphically portray the intense suffering of > Christ, "perhaps as no film has done before." Gibson is directing the > film. > > The friend, Gary Giuffre, a traditionalist Catholic, also said that the > film will lay the blame for the death of Christ where it belongs -- a > reference that some traditionalists believe means the Jewish authorities > who presided over his trial, the article said. > > A spokesman for Gibson had no comment, saying he had not seen the article. > Sources close to the actor said Gibson's religious views and those of his > family were known. > > Discussing his film in a recent TV interview, Gibson was asked whether his > account might particularly upset Jews. He said, "It may. It's not meant > to. I think it's meant to just tell the truth." > > .