[NetBehaviour] The Doubter's Mysteries - the Resurrection of Jesus
Edward Picot
julian.lesaux at gmail.com
Sun Aug 11 21:17:04 CEST 2019
Alan,
As always, thanks for the response. I've never seen 'Good Omens' -
probably just as well, or it might have influenced me. I agree with you
about the differences between Old Testament and New Testament, though.
To me the Old Testament is more mythic/poetic, whereas the New Testament
is more of a direct challenge, it makes me feel more anxious, and I
think that's because in many ways it feeds straight into the modern era.
It's asking us at every turn whether we believe it or not - and I find
myself constantly going through a process of thinking 'Okay, I can
believe in this bit (eg. the Sermon on the Mount), but I can't buy into
that bit (eg. the resurrection)'. But the magnificent thing, which it
shares with the Old Testament, is that it's prepared to acknowledge
other points of view - Doubting Thomas being a case in point. 'I won't
believe it until I see it with my own eyes.' It seems to me that the
Jewish tradition of writing is quite different from other ancient
traditions in that respect.
Edward
On 09/08/2019 22:05, Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour wrote:
> Hi, just 'got' to this, it reminds me of the tv show Good Omens. Like
> the play, I've never gotten with the 'Son of God' in any form, why not
> Children of God, let it go at that? I don't think J. made any such
> claims himself, everything was the craziness years later. Meanwhile on
> the darker side of things I keep thinking also of Mel Gibson's passion
> film - which is anti-semitic, ugly. The New T. reminds me of something
> sutured, confimed; the Old T. is all over the place, contradictory, a
> collocation of texts from everywhere. The New is kinder. For me the
> Old is more interesting because more alien on one hand, then thanks to
> trump etc., all too familiar. I've often wondered where the
> resurrection came from, the cave, rising from the dead, etc. etc. -
> very strange. And then why Joseph's sperm set aside? And Joseph? All
> this melds uncomfortably for me because of its current ramifications
> in the U.S. People hold onto their beliefs w/ their teeth bared - look
> at Kashmir now ... Anyway, thank you! These are some of the thoughts
> that came to mind, roiling out and confused of course - your text here
> is great - the weaving of the strands of memory and future-text,
> already the hardening of positions. Mary M. is by far the most
> interesting of anyone - forget which gospel - her sexual relationship
> w/ Jesus - looked it up - Gospel of Philip - etc. - from my viewpoint,
> at least they're human -
>
> Best, Alan
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2019 at 9:02 AM Edward Picot via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> 'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
> Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
> Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of
> view of
> a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't
> believe in
> God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
>
> There are fourteen of these plays, and the eleventh is now online:
> 'The
> Trial of Jesus'.
>
> http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/12theresurrectionofjesus.html (or
> for
> the full series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)
>
> Edward
>
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