Word: iscariotic
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Each Jesus film or novel creates its own twist, and with Zeffirelli's version it is the recasting of the great betrayer Judas Iscariot (Ian MacShane). Far from the calculating hypocrite of tradition, the TV Judas is a confused young man who leads the soldiers to Jesus so he can clear himself, never realizing that a trial will occur. He is the innocent tool of Zerah (Ian Holm), a fictional priest who is the villain in the Sanhedrin...
...Judas Iscariot is its hero. Glimpsed in old age, he has taken refuge from the Romans in what remains of the religious community of Qumran (where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found), and pauses to put down his last testament before he is killed. Enter, 1,900 years later, a British archaeologist named Mallory, who finds the scroll and takes it back to England for translation. Judas' gospel, as might be expected, contradicts nearly everything the other four evangelists have set down. Mirroring such recent pop events as Jesus Christ Superstar, as well as more serious re cent theories...
Since ancient times-indeed since long before Judas Iscariot betrayed Jesus -silver has been regarded as a precious metal, often playing a crucial role in the rise and fall of nations. In recent years, silver has gradually ceased to be used as a base for currencies. For this and other reasons, the price of silver has plunged-from an alltime high of $2.57 per oz. in June 1968 to as low as $1.29 early last month. Victims of the fall include Wall Street metals speculators, small-time investors who had bought silver as a hedge against inflation, silver miners...
...whose considerable talent and limitless energy sometimes upstage Jesus. Clad in silver jockey shorts, Judas returns from the dead on a butterfly-winged acrobatic bar to ask the doomed Jesus "Why you let the things you did get so out of hand?" He does not sing Swing Low, Sweet Iscariot. But, over a heavy blues-rock beat, he does sound the show's provocative theme...
...hagiology of liberal America, Franklin Roosevelt has always been a favorite saint. Herbert Hoover was only slightly less villainous than Judas Iscariot. Now at least a few writers of the radical left are changing the text. In The Greening of America, Yale's Charles Reich argues that the New Deal helped create not only an inhuman corporate state but "a new consciousness that believed primarily in domination and the necessity for living under domination...