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Title: Jesus of Nazareth and Other Writings by Richard Wagner, William Ashton Ellis ISBN: 0-8032-9780-7 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: November, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Summary: THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO...RICHARD WAGNER?
Comment: More than just a dry run for his liturgical Christian music drama PARSIFAL, the German composer's personal look at the life of Christ merges the traditional Passion story with his own brand of revolutionary politics, proving true novelist Reynolds Price's words that "virtually all post-Gospel lives of Jesus [have] told us far more about their authors than their subject." Yet for a man so often identified with anti-Semitism, readers will be surprised that Wagner's mystery play is remarkably free of racial bias or slurs. Not only are the Jews not scapegoated as the Christ-killers of Medieval lore, but the portrayal of Judas as a heroic freedom fighter echoes the portrait in Nikos Kazantzakis' THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. (One wonders if this interpretation tricked down to Kazantzakis during his intensive studies of Wagner friend-turned-foe Friedrich Nietzsche.)

All in all, fascinating material not only for musicologists, historians, and Wagnerites, but for those interested in the Christology as seen though the eyes of historical personages.

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