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Christian Torture Porn: The Violent Passion of Mel Gibson

This is “Biblical Epic Week” at the blog. Check out the prior entries from Ben Alpers and Andrew Hartman. More will follow from Andy Seal, Ray Haberski, and LD Burnett. And if Biblical Epics aren’t your thing, read the fantastic first posts from our new writers, Robin Marie and Eran Zelnik! ——————————————————————————- I. In February of 2004, during the icy depths of a cold Chicago-land winter, I journeyed with some friends to Evanston to see Mel Gibson’s biblical epic, The Passion of the Christ. The film is about many things, but covers, in essence, the last twelve hours of Jesus’ Read more

Canonical Blackness

Can an Imperial Stormtrooper be black?  Can ancient Egyptians be white? Hey, in the movies, anything is possible – though some things are perhaps more possible than others. A filmmaker Read more

Do You Know Your Bible?

Should we care about the bible? Those who write for this blog and those who read it, enjoy debating books and theorists, unearthing connections between majority and minority streams of Read more

Another Day in the Life

As part of his fascinating keynote address at the S-USIH conference last Saturday, David Hollinger argued that there is an inverse relationship between levels of higher education – particularly higher Read more

Signs of the Times

One of the interesting things about Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences  (1948) is the dust jacket for the first edition. The cover art features an assortment of headlines “ripped” from Read more

Through a Glass, Darkly

For the past two years, I have been mulling over a question posed on this blog:  what is the historian’s obligation to the dead? Last summer, I began writing my Read more

A Gleam Across the Wave

Last year I wrote a post encouraging scholars of American intellectual and cultural history to give the Bible its due.  I’m following up that post, almost a year to the Read more