After the recent UK floods, a forthcoming feature film of Noah and the Ark appears to be a timely subject. The tale is be transferred to the big screen by Darren Aronofsky, the writer\/director\/producer behind Requiem for a Dream <\/i>(2000), The Fountain<\/i> (2006) and Black Swan <\/i>(2010), with Russell Crowe starring in the title role.<\/p>\n
The Daily Express <\/i>has used the weather as a starting point to discuss Aronofsky\u2019s new take on the story and to debate is historical credibility, and has interviewed Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>, Reader in Applied Theology from the Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, alongside Oxford academic and presenter of the BBC4 series A History of Christianity<\/i>, Professor Diarmaid MacCulloch, and the British Museum’s Dr Irving Finkel.<\/p>\n \u2018Whatever Aronofsky does is going to offend somebody,\u2019 explains Chris in the article. \u2018Either it will be: he is embellishing the Noah story; or others will say: well this is a fictional story, why go to all this effort for something that should not be seen as anything other than imaginative or prehistoric or mythology?\u2019<\/p>\n To read the full article, please see the Express<\/i> webpage here:
\nwww.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/films\/461331\/Dr-Finkel-s-exploration-into-biblical-tale-Noah<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"