{"id":3340,"date":"2016-04-04T05:34:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T05:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2016-04-04T05:35:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T05:35:23","slug":"passover-is-coming-how-our-biblical-eye-should-see-the-events-of-the-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/passover-is-coming-how-our-biblical-eye-should-see-the-events-of-the-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Passover is coming. How our Biblical eye should see the events of the Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Tom Brennan<\/p>\n

Hollywood has had a serious effect on how we visualize the Bible. Ben Hur has been remade and in the current trend of CGI effects overwhelming any attempt at a story line, some changes seem to have been made to \u2018A Tale of the Christ\u201d. General Lew Wallace a reasonably competent General with the Union in the American Civil War, went on to become a governor and author of two Victorian period novels, Ben Hur being the best known. Cecil B deMille made a silent version in the 1920\u2019s and in 1960 a color and sound extravaganza with an all-star cast (back when actors really acted) was included. Charlton Heston portrayed a masculine Ben Hur and his imagery was fixed in the mind. Prior to this he played Moses in The Ten Commandments; aging before our eyes into a prophet you would follow anywhere. Multiple remakes of Moses wanna-be\u2019s have followed and the most recent is a General Moses on horseback confronting Pharaoh at the Red Sea. Somehow Ridley Scott\u2019s well-deserved reputation for changing history seems to continue. Perhaps this Moses can teach us the most about how the real versus the reel (Ridley Scott\u2019s) Moses is the closest to Biblical facts.<\/p>\n

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The Kotel at Passover – Photo by Ouria Tadmor<\/p><\/div>\n

The 1956 Moses was an eighty year old shepherd, dressed as a he would be clothed. Multi-striped cloth, sandals and bearing a staff, not a sword. The Egyptians were clean shaven and shorn of head hair, they hated shepherds, especially the \u201cAsian\u201d type with beards, long locks and cloaks and tunics of multicolor. God uses the humble to upset the plans and connivance of the mighty. An elderly shepherd confronts a god-King with shorn locks linen kilt and stares him down. The pursuit by chariots is ended by ocean waves; the Egyptians did seem to be a seagoing group but stayed close to shoreline on their voyages. Once again, the irony of the story is seen. The Egyptians hate deep water, and that is where they meet their fate.<\/p>\n

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