In the continuation of the Canadian Jewish Studies lecture series this semester, Dr. Adele Reinhartz will present “Jesus the Jew: The View from Hollywood” on March 1st between 2:45 - 4:00 in the Hall Building, room H-620.
Dr. Reinhartz comes to Concordia University as the Associate Vice-President for Research at the University of Ottawa. From the announcement:

She holds the position of Professor in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies. Her main areas of research are the Gospel of John, early Jewish-Christian relations, feminist criticism, and, most recently, the Bible and film. Her latest book is a study of the Jesus movies, entitled Jesus of Hollywood (Oxford, 2006).
It is common knowledge that Jesus was a Jew, and lived his life in the context of the religion, culture and politics of first century Galilee and Judea. The movies about Jesus are ambivalent about portraying Jesus as a Jew. We will look at the ways in which the Jesus movies both highlight and obscure Jesus’ Jewish identity, by looking at and talking about clips selected from the range of films from the early silent movies to the most recent feature-length films.