Who was the historical Jesus? Here, veteran film director Paul Verhoeven's lifelong obsession with the facts and fictions surrounding the life of Jesus of Nazareth culmintaes in a work of brazen scholarship. Combining his passion for the subject with an in-depth knowledge of the history gained through rigorous study, Verhoeven paints a portrait of Jesus the man. He constructs a new vision of Jesus as a child born of rape, as a spiritualist who exorcised demons and a militant revolutionary. Like all things Verhoeven, this will shock, inspire and revolutionise thought.
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Who was the historical Jesus? Here, veteran film director Paul Verhoeven's lifelong obsession with the facts and fictions surrounding the life of Jesus of Nazareth culmintaes in a work of brazen scholarship. Combining his passion for the subject with an in-depth knowledge of the history gained through rigorous study, Verhoeven paints a portrait of Jesus the man. He constructs a new vision of Jesus as a child born of rape, as a spiritualist who exorcised demons and a militant revolutionary. Like all things Verhoeven, this will shock, inspire and revolutionise thought.