{"id":27954,"date":"2015-02-24T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T16:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=27954"},"modified":"2015-03-23T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2015-03-24T02:46:17","slug":"watch-the-threat-of-violence-hangs-over-the-early-church-in-the-latest-special-preview-of-a-d-the-bible-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-the-threat-of-violence-hangs-over-the-early-church-in-the-latest-special-preview-of-a-d-the-bible-continues.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: The threat of violence hangs over the early Church in the latest <i>A.D.: The Bible Continues<\/i> &#8220;special preview&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/02\/ad-pilate-cornelius-2.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/02\/ad-pilate-cornelius-2-1024x338.jpg\" alt=\"ad-pilate-cornelius-2\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-27958\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Another week, another video for <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ad-beyond-the-bible\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">A.D.: The Bible Continues<\/a><\/i>. Like some of the previous videos, this one emphasizes the threat of violence, whether actual (as committed by the Romans and other authority figures) or metaphorical (note the title card calling the early Jesus movement a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-the-early-christians-can-feel-it-coming-in-the-air-tonight-in-the-super-bowl-spot-for-a-d-the-bible-continues.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">rebellion<\/a>\u201d). Check it out below the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here is the YouTube version, which apparently cannot be played outside the U.S.:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i3hHMuGeizA<\/p>\n<p>And here is the Facebook version, which <i>can<\/i> be viewed outside the U.S.:<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1546929858909124\" data-width=\"590\">\n<div class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video.php?v=1546929858909124\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Post<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ADtheseries\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">A.D. The Bible Continues<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two quick nit-picks, if I may:<\/p>\n<p>First, a man tells Peter, \u201cOnce the Romans realize your message remains a threat, they will kill each of you.\u201d Is that really true at this point in the story?<\/p>\n<p>The Romans are <i>not<\/i> major players in the book of Acts, except, oddly, in a benign sort of way, as the figures who <i>defend<\/i> the early Christians against some of their Jewish opponents. (This is most obvious in the case of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+18%3A12-17&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Gallio<\/a>, but see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+27%3A1-3&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Julius<\/a>, the officer who showed kindness to Paul during his journey to Rome, not to mention <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/cornelius-and-caligula-biblical-and-secular-history-come-together-in-two-shows-called-a-d.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Cornelius<\/a>, the centurion who became the first Gentile convert to Christianity.)<\/p>\n<p>Some would argue that the author of Acts was sucking up to the Roman authorities by painting them in a more flattering light, but this is the same author who gave Pontius Pilate the most unflattering portrait in any of the gospels (cf. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+13%3A1-5&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 13:1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+23%3A6-12&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 23:6-12<\/a>), so that argument only gets you so far. What\u2019s more, Josephus concurs with Acts that the Jewish authorities of this period were prone to killing people \u2014 such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Josephus_on_Jesus#James_the_brother_of_Jesus\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">James, the brother of Jesus<\/a> \u2014 by stoning them to death when the Romans weren\u2019t around. (Compare this to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+7%3A54-60&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Stephen\u2019s death in Acts 7<\/a>, which may have coincided with a brief power vacuum after Pilate was summoned back to Rome.)<\/p>\n<p>So suffice it to say that the producers have probably trumped up Roman opposition to the rise of the early church partly because imposing gratuitous violence on Bible stories is just kind of what they <i>do<\/i>. (See <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2013\/03\/the-bible-first-episode-first-impressions.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Bible<\/a><\/i> for plenty of examples.)<\/p>\n<p>Second, the video ends with Peter telling a lifeless woman, \u201cBe healed,\u201d and then she suddenly breathes. Is this from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+9%3A32-43&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the raising of Tabitha<\/a>? But wasn\u2019t she actually <i>dead<\/i>? I\u2019m not sure \u201cBe healed\u201d is quite the instruction I\u2019d give to a dead body.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, in the Bible there is a bit of word-play here, inasmuch as Peter tells the dead girl, \u201cTabitha, get up,\u201d whereas in Mark\u2019s gospel Jesus told <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Language_of_Jesus#Talitha_kum_.28.CE.A4.CE.B1.CE.BB.CE.B9.CE.B8.CE.AC_.CE.BA.CE.BF.CF.8D.CE.BC.5B.CE.B9.5D.29\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">another dead girl<\/a>, \u201c<i>Talitha<\/i> [Aramaic for \u2018little girl\u2019], get up.\u201d This word-play was made very explicit in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/ad-anno-domini-1985\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">A.D.: Anno Domini<\/a><\/i>, but will the new <i>A.D.<\/i> make that connection\u2026?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/02\/vlcsnap-2015-02-23-20h55m01s145.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/02\/vlcsnap-2015-02-23-20h55m01s145-1024x576.png\" alt=\"vlcsnap-2015-02-23-20h55m01s145\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-27972\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>March 23 update:<\/b> Whoa. I just realized that the song that accompanies this video is a cover of XTC\u2019s famously atheistic, indeed anti-theistic, \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.azlyrics.com\/lyrics\/xtc\/deargod.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dear God<\/a>\u2019. Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Check out earlier trailers and other videos here:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/11\/peter-leaves-his-daugher-in-the-first-trailer-for-a-d.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The first trailer<\/a> (November 26, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2014\/12\/watch-new-promo-for-a-d-set-to-classic-christian-song.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018By Our Love\u2019 music video<\/a> (December 19, 2014)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/01\/newsbites-the-dovekeepers-meet-the-press-ben-hur-gets-another-actor-and-a-d-gets-a-new-tv-spot.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018The Next Chapter of the Greatest Story Ever Told\u2019 TV spot<\/a> (January 12, 2015)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/01\/a-d-gets-a-new-title-and-trailer-producers-meet-the-press.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The second trailer<\/a> (January 17, 2015)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-the-early-christians-can-feel-it-coming-in-the-air-tonight-in-the-super-bowl-spot-for-a-d-the-bible-continues.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Super Bowl spot<\/a> (February 1, 2015)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-the-newsboys-believe-in-new-a-d-trailer.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Newsboys\u2019 \u2018We Believe\u2019 music video<\/a> (February 10, 2015)\n<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-a-new-first-look-at-a-d-the-bible-continues.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The \u2018First Look\u2019 video<\/a> (February 18, 2015)<\/li><\/ul>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The early Christians may not be &#8220;fighters&#8221;, but they do start a &#8220;rebellion&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1306,923,435,2786,2866],"class_list":["post-27954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ad-beyond-the-bible","tag-luke","tag-peter","tag-tabitha","tag-xtc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch: The threat of violence hangs over the early Church in the latest A.D.: The Bible Continues &quot;special preview&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The early Christians may not be &quot;fighters&quot;, but they do start a &quot;rebellion&quot;.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-the-threat-of-violence-hangs-over-the-early-church-in-the-latest-special-preview-of-a-d-the-bible-continues.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: The threat of violence hangs over the early Church in the latest A.D.: The Bible Continues &quot;special preview&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The early Christians may not be &quot;fighters&quot;, but they do start a &quot;rebellion&quot;.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/02\/watch-the-threat-of-violence-hangs-over-the-early-church-in-the-latest-special-preview-of-a-d-the-bible-continues.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-02-24T16:16:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-03-24T02:46:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2015\/02\/ad-pilate-cornelius-2-1024x338.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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