Dramatic portrayals of Jesus

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Various authors and filmmakers have created dramatic portrayals of Jesus and his life.

Many wanted to portray an accurate depiction of what his life is believed to have been like, while others have used the persona of Jesus as a narrative device to make a literary point and develop a story's theme. Because of the devotion of many people to the idea of Jesus, portrayals of him in works of fiction have been, almost without exception, fraught with controversy. Film portrayals of Jesus have, in particular, attracted protests and criticism. Filmmakers and theater managers have even received death threats in the wake of some of the more controversial movies about Jesus.

[edit] Novels

• According to Mary Magdalene by Marianne Fredriksson (2003)
• Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock (1970)
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace
• The Big Fisherman by Lloyd C. Douglas
• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky (1881)
• Casca: The Eternal Mercenary by Barry Sadler
• Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt by Anne Rice
• The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop
• Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon (1986)
• The Gospel According to Jesus Christ by José Saramago (1991)
• The Gospel According to the Son by Norman Mailer
• The Gospel of Aphranius by Kiril Yeskov
• The Gospel of Corax by Paul Park
• I, Judas by Taylor Caldwell with Jess Stearn
• Judas, My Brother by Frank Yerby
• Judas Iscariot by Leonid Andreev
• King Jesus by Robert Graves (1947)
• Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore (2001)
• The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1940, published in 1966)
• Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice
• The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
• Only Begotten Daughter and The Godhead Trilogy by James Morrow
• Quarantine by Jim Crace
• Riverworld by Philip José Farmer
• The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas
• Testament by Nino Ricci
• The Urantia Book Authorship assisted by William S. Sadler
• The Wild Girl by Michèle Roberts

[edit] Motion pictures