List of Bible adaptations

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In the history of literary film adaptations , the number of Bible adaptations occupies a leading place. The Bible and selected biblical narratives have often been made accessible to a broad audience through films .

A number of films deal with people from the Tanakh , the Hebrew Bible of Judaism , or from the Old Testament of Christianity . Many film adaptations of the New Testament depict the life of Jesus of Nazareth or Jesus Christ . Other films use the time about the life of Christ only as a framework or background story, in which the actual film story is embedded, or only deal with the time afterwards his death at the beginning of Christianity. Still other films try to be satirical or ironicApproaching the subject. Some films on all three variants of the treatment of the subject sparked fierce controversy and met with strong criticism, especially when they were portrayed with contemporary or permissive means.

Old testament

New Testament

"The Bible" of the Kirch group

Between 1993 and 2002, under the title "The Bible", an attempt was made in a series of 13 television films to find a cinematic implementation for all important people and events in the Bible. This Kirch group project was completed in 2003 with the broadcast of the last part; The film Petrus - The True Story from 2005 followed loosely. The series was broadcast in 67 countries. The individual films are:

In 2001, directed by Raffaele Mertes, the four-part spin-off series “Jesus Legends” was created, which until now has only been broadcast on ORF in German-speaking countries . However, this series is only partly based on Scripture; the scripts by Gareth Jones and Gianmario Pagano expand the storyline significantly.

History channel's "The Bible" series

In 2013, The Bible broadcast a ten-part miniseries. The focus is on the most important episodes of the Bible. The representation begins with Genesis and extends to the Acts of the Apostles . The series was shown in Germany from April 17, 2014. The film Son of God was released in 2014 as a release of the series .

literature

  • Richard Campbell, Michael Pitts: The Bible on Film . A Checklist 1897-1980. The Scarecrew Press, Metuchen 1981.
  • Bruce Babington, Peter William Evans: Biblical Epics: Sacred Narrative in the Hollywood Cinema . Manchester University Press, Manchester 1993.
  • Peter Hasenberg (Ed.): Traces of the Religious in Film. Milestones from 100 years of cinema history . Catholic Institute for Media Information (KIM) / Matthias-Grünewald-Verlag, Cologne / Mainz 1995, ISBN 3-7867-1827-X .
  • Erin Runions: How Hysterical. Identification and Resistance in the Bible and Film . Palgrave Macmillan, London 2003.

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