You may have noted that a couple of new dramatic treatments about Jesus are in the works. The One is a project of the Lifetime network. Nazareth is being developed as a series for Fox. Both are about the years between Jesus’ childhood and his adult ministry.
Who knows whether they’ll be good or bad drama? But I predict they’ll be attacked by many of the same Christians who didn’t like this year’s hit movie Noah. That’s because Christianity -- Protestant Christianity in particular -- lacks a tradition comparable to Jewish midrash.
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