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( Have a sub to add?) Catholic Subreddits DENVER, Ap/Christian Newswire/ - Interest in Aramaic has soared over the past decade, notably after the release of Mel Gibson's blockbuster movie The Passion of The Christ, which was. Versebot: Bible Quoter Related Subreddits Michael Moores Fahrenheit 9/11 and Mel Gibsons Passion of the Christ. This subreddit is actually devoted to discussing Catholicism. Parasite overtakes The Passion of the Christ as biggest ever foreign language.
Q: How is /r/Catholic different from /r/Catholicism? A: /r/Catholicism is run by anti-Catholic trolls. Blatantly uncharitable responses to legitimate questions.Prayer Requests (see weekly post on /r/Catholic for prayer requests).Posts seeking advice, guidance, or clarification.Questions likely to generate discussion.Provide an avenue for reasonable dialogue amongst people of all beliefs.Discuss theological teachings of the Catholic Church.Many modern Aramaic communities still speak it, despite its status as a dead language. Present new developments in the world of Catholicism The Passion of the Christ movie has brought Aramaic to the forefront in recent years.Pilate addresses Jesus in Aramaic, and Jesus answers in Latin.If you would like to make a prayer request, please submit a comment in our weekly prayer request thread stickied at the top of the main page. To illustrate the groups' inability toĬommunicate with each other, each side speaks with incorrect Where the Roman soldiers, speaking Aramaic, are shouting to JewishĬrowds, who respond in Latin. Other linguistic tricks of Fulco's serve a function in the script.įor example, he incorporated deliberate dialogue errors in the scenes Williamįulco, a Jesuit priest and professor of ancient Mediterranean studiesĪt Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. The task of achieving linguistic authenticity fell to Rev. This article explains a reason for the language choice: He said that the advantage of using Latin and Aramaic was the sound of these two languages - they could have the actors speaking variously in Aramaic and Italianate Latin and then every viewer would be able to distinguish between who was talking in which language because of the basic sounds. Why Latin and Aramaic? Why not Greek? Fulco explained that they had tried using Greek too, but that it did not work and they thought they would have lots of complaints about pronunciation. Fulco, S.J., the film's theological consultant, who was responsible for the translations to Aramaic and Latin.ĭavid Shepherd did put the difficult questions, though, and in particular pressed Fulco on the issue of Greek. One of the ballrooms hosts an event entitled "An Interview with the Writers of the Passion." The writers in question were Benedict Fitzgerald, co-screenwriter, and William J. I showed it to confirmation classes I lead to great effect. Surprised that he did not need most of the subtitles in English toĪccording to Mark Goodacre's academic blog: Christ’s passion in the hands of a brilliant and faithful artist truly brought Christ’s sufferings to a higher sense of reality.
Of the Christ with most of the dialogue in Aramaic, he was very When an Arabic speaking Muslim friend saw Mel Gibson’s movie Passion Mostly Aramaic, if this is to be believed: