Summary

THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE, PART 1 - SAGA AND STORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT

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Title: THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE, PART 1 - SAGA AND STORY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
File Number: EBC-65 Beta SP
Color: Color
Type: Educational
Year: 1974
Description: Color 1974 This educational film about the Bible approaches the text from a literary, as opposed to spiritual or historical, perspective. It consists mostly of still pictures in overlapping DISSOLVEs and is mostly SFU. The highlight is a reenactment of the apocryphal story "Suzanna and the Elders", amusingly dated and overacted in the best educational-film manner. Directed by John Barnes. 00:42:08:00 Color 1974 cu Manuscript in Hebrew lettering. 00:45:42:00 Color 1974 ws Ruins of Palace of King Solomon, near Jericho, Israel. 00:58:30:00 Color 1974 Dramatization of the Bible story "Suzanna and the Elders". Two men lust after a beautiful woman in a garden, but when she spurns their advances, they falsely accuse her of adultery she's about to be stoned for her crime when an angel intervenes. Very hokey and dated the clothing styles are somewhere between Biblical and Elizabethan, and Susannah has a distinctly 1960s flower-child look. Cast: April Shawham, Michael Higgins, Barnard Hughes, Thomas Scott
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