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...name, eventually kidnapped the location manager for two hours, seeking reassurances that the film would not denigrate its cause. Shortly after that, an explosive device detonated close to the crew, killing three people not associated with the film. Abu-Assad withdrew, finishing the project in his native city of Nazareth. When Abu-Assad showed the film to a Palestinian audience in Ramallah in April, a fierce argument raged about its message; some said it portrayed an ugly Palestinian face to Westerners, while others were struck by its astute portrayal of West Bank life. Abu-Assad says the sharply divided opinions...
...Catholic publisher (Paulist Press; 175 pages; $8.95), contends that Jews and Christians alike fail to grasp Jesus' ties to the competing Jewish factions of his time. Christians, says Falk, have misunderstood some of the teachings of Jesus, while Jews have been needlessly hostile toward "Yeshua ha Notzri" (Jesus of Nazareth). Falk's book offers a provocative and controversial theory on Christian origins...
...mail message urging others to join the strike, wrote that “we think it is more than coincidental that this horrendous battle over Terri Schiavo’s life is occurring during Holy Week, when we remember the suffering and death of Jesus of Nazareth...
Or would "O little town of Nazareth" be more accurate? Strange as it may seem, a majority of scholars now lean in the latter direction. Those sticking with Bethlehem point out, not unreasonably, that both Matthew and Luke place Jesus' birth there. The skeptics note that they reach the town by such extravagantly different means that one has to wonder whether they weren't trying too hard to get there...
...Matthew's account, Joseph and Mary are Bethlehem residents and Jesus is born at home. But his very birth necessitates their flight to Egypt (and eventually Nazareth) because Jerusalem's vicious regent, Herod, is determined to murder the Bethlehem child he has learned will one day be King of the Jews. None of that gripping story, however, can be found in Luke. According to Luke, Joseph and Mary, Nazarenes, are on a brief if inconvenient visit to Joseph's ancestral home of Bethlehem, complying with a vast census ("All the world should be enrolled") ordered by the Roman Emperor Augustus...