Engaging the Passion: Perspectives on the Death of Jesus

Engaging the Passion gathers an impressive array of scholars to survey how the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, and theology and ethicsfrom the first to the twenty-first centuries. The contributors approach the passion from a variety of perspectivesdiversely Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and secular. Their voices differ as well, from the challenging to the comforting and from the academic to the confessional. They addr...