Tom Beck wrote: > >> It makes sense: the Old Testiment was anti-Semetic. If you want to >> make a movie about, say, the latter days of the Northern Kingdom, >> and if you want to base it in the Bible, it will be a _very_ anti-semetic >> movie, showing israelites with all kinds of sins. > > How is the Old Testament (a term Jews never use) anti-Semitic? > Because it's a sermon written by Jews to be used to improve Jews - so it focus on listing the errors and sins, with the intention that they will not be repeated. BTW, Jesus's speeches against the pharisees [sp?] _are_ very similar to the pharisees' own speeches: they criticized themselves all the time, so that they could improve.
Another example: suppose a historian of the XXXX Century wants to study XX Century USA, and the only thing he has are cops movies. He might think that they are anti-USA propaganda, because in those movies the police system is shown as a very corrupt and evil thing. Alberto Monteiro _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
