Mel Gibson's Passion

Introduction
Section 1: Reflections on the Film
1 Review of The Passion of the Christ, by Irving Greenberg
2 Gibson at the Crossroads, by Penny Wheeler
3 Gibson’s Passion, by Yvonne Kozlovsky-Golan
4 Where Are the Flies? Where Is the Smoke? The Real and Super-Real in Mel Gibson’s The Passion, by Bruce Zuckerman
5 How Austrians Viewed The Passion of the Christ, by Klaus Hödl
6 Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the “Via Media", by Richard Holdredge
Section 2: Scriptural Jesus and Gibson’s Passion
7 The Quest of the Historical Jesus Revisited: Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, by Peter Haas
8 The Jewish Jesus: A Partisan’s Imagination, by Zev Garber
9 History, Archaeology, and Mel Gibson’s Passion, by Gordon D. Young
10 Where Is the History in Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ?, by S. Scott Bartchy
11 Reflections on Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, by Louis H. Feldman
12 Crucifixion in Rabbinic Context: Juridical or Theological?, by Jacob Neusner
Section 3: Diversity and Dialogue
13 Dramatizing the Passion: From Oberammergau to Gibson, by Gordon R. Mork
14 Deicide Déjà vu: Mel Gibson’s Film The Passion— An Attack on Forty Years of Jewish-Christian Dialogue, by Samuel Edelman and Carol Edelman
15 Gibson’s Passion: The Challenges for Catholics, by John T. Pawlikowski
16 Gibson’s Passion on a Catholic Campus, by Richard Libowitz
17 Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ: A Protestant Perspective, by James F. Moore
18 Jewish “Officialdom” and The Passion of the Christ: Who Said What and What Did They Say?, by Steven Leonard Jacobs
19 A View from the Pew on Gibson’s Passion, by Stuart D. Robertson
20 The Passion of the Christ and Congregational Interfaith Relations, by Joseph A. Edelheit
Bibliography
Contributors
Index