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Those British Jesus Movies

19 December 2005 2 Comments

Those British Jesus movies are on television again for the holiday season. You know, the movies where Jesus speaks in the King James 1611 Shakespearean dialect.

Why is this? I would figure that Jesus probably had an accent and dialect of the people of Nazareth and Bethlehem.

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  • Andrew said:

    He wouldn’t have been white, had blue eyes, or long hair either!

    # 19 December 2005 at 10:20 pm
  • Ken said:

    And a Roman speaking modern English would probably have an accent more like Ricardo Montalban than Mid-Atlantic King’s English.

    The convention of Biblical figures speaking British-Upper-Class English has spread far and wide. My sister-in-law (Iraqi Christian from Kurdistan) speaks Aramaic (it’s her denomination’s liturgical language). She had one complaint about The Passion — that all the Aramaic was spoken with such thick English accents.

    (Kinge Jaymes 1611 Englyshe leaking through even in ancient Judea?)

    # 23 December 2005 at 2:22 pm