Giday, I'm Gary Stevens.

And welcome to the third season of the History in the Bible podcast.

In this final season, I explore how the Jews and the Christians constructed new religions when they were

sent spinning into the void after the destruction of the temple. All of the history, about all of the

books beyond the Bible. In this bonus episode, Steve Gwera, the History of the Papersie podcast and I take a critical look at Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Hope you enjoy the show.

Welcome back to another collaboration between the History of the Papacy

podcast, the History and the Bible podcast, and I'll put on my Beyond the Big Screen podcast

hat too, so I'm wearing two hats. But today we're tackling the big one, the movie of all movies, history of

Christianity related, history of Bible, Judaism, you name it, and that is 2004's The Passion

of the Christ, written and directed by Mel Gibson. So Gary, how are you doing today? I'm doing fine. And, you know,

I have difficulty believing that movie came out 17 years ago. Yeah, it's pretty unbelievable.

Yeah, it feels like it just came out last month or something. And I believe that they're coming out

with the sequel to it,

and not too long from when we're recording this.

Really? Yeah.

Jesus Part 2.

It's titled The Passion Resurrection.

So I think that probably gives a little clue.

So maybe we could talk about that at some time.

What we might predict would be in that film.

It would definitely be a lot less gory than this one.

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