I don't know what "scriptural sophistication" means, exactly, or what it has to do with Gibson's film.
The film is not intended to be "sophisticated" but faithful to the actual Gospels. Instead of saying "well, this is what must have happened in real life, based on what we know of Roman and Hebrew history", as Frederiksen does, it sticks to the text, as it was written.
I did a bit of reading up on her - she argues that a lot of the New Testament was invented for various reasons.
I can't make out why she, or you, think it's significant that the four Gospels differ slightly. Isn't that what you'd expect from four different eyewitnesses? One person thinks the car was blue, one thinks it was green, but none of them say it was a truck or a motorcycle.
The disagreement in facts between Gospels are not about material facts, which is why all four matter.
All in all, a nice exercise in "spiritual sophistication" - I think your term describes the author's perspective very well - that is, if you mean what I think you meant. |
