The Real Jesus by Géza Vermès

Author:Géza Vermès
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

The light element in The Passion of the Christ is supplied by the use of Latin and Aramaic. Not only are Pilate and Jesus(!) fluent Latin speakers, but even the soldiers of the Jerusalem garrison, who were most probably Aramaic- and Greek-speaking recruits from Syria, converse happily in a clumsy Latin with Italian Church pronunciation. I did not find it easy to follow the Aramaic which was mixed with unnecessary Hebraisms. One point is worth noting. It has been said again and again that the fateful curse ‘His blood be on us and our children!’ has been cut from the film. This is not so. The Aramaic words are there; only the English subtitle has been removed.

Crucifixion is not a gentle subject: the great Roman orator Cicero calls it crudelissimum teterrimumque supplicium, the most cruel and abominable form of death penalty. But Gibson poured into his vision of the Passion of Jesus protracted graphic violence. It inflicts great harm on the noble subject. When written by Shakespeare, the words of Mark Antony describing the blood-soaked mantle of the murdered Julius Caesar and the holes left by the assassins’ daggers shake the listener more to the core than the celluloid brutality of The Passion of the Christ by Mel Gibson.

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