{"id":2554,"date":"2014-04-24T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T09:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2016-07-15T10:12:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-15T09:12:03","slug":"chris-deacy-writes-for-kent-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/04\/24\/chris-deacy-writes-for-kent-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Deacy writes for Kent on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Easter period, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/deacy.html\">Dr Chris Deacy<\/a>,\u00a0Reader in Theology and Religious Studies from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, took time out to write for the <i>Kent on Sunday<\/i> newspaper about biblical adaptations for TV and cinema.<\/p>\n<p>The article is offers a timely look at the latest Hollywood biblical epic, <i>Noah <\/i>(2014), directed by Darren Aaronofsky, alongside scholars Rudolph Bultmann and Adele Reinhartz. Chris concludes, \u2018any film about a 600-year-old patriarch (Russell Crowe certainly makes him look youthful) should never be seen as an accurate or definite rendering of the Biblical story, and it is all the more creative and inspiring for that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Chris\u2019s piece is accompanied by a brief look at other Biblical epics, including <i>The Ten Commandments <\/i>(1956), <i>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat <\/i>(1968), <i>Jesus of Nazareth <\/i>(1977), <i>The Prince of Egypt <\/i>(1998), and <i>The Passion of the Christ <\/i>(2004).<\/p>\n<p>The issue is available as an online magazine, and can be found on pages 24-25 here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk\/\/launch.aspx?pbid=d7d2b9a4-64e8-44e3-9e11-33b67854552c\">http:\/\/edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk\/\/launch.aspx?pbid=d7d2b9a4-64e8-44e3-9e11-33b67854552c<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Easter period, Dr Chris Deacy,\u00a0Reader in Theology and Religious Studies from the Department of Religious Studies, took time out to write for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/04\/24\/chris-deacy-writes-for-kent-on-sunday\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":2557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/6344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}