The Reverend Tom Horner, who wrote this article, is an Episcopalian priest. He holds degrees from Duke University Divinity School and Columbia University. He is the author also of Jonathan Loved David: Homosexuality in Biblical Times, published in 1978 by Westminster John Knox Press.
At left, “Christ of Saint John of the Cross” (1951), by Salvador Dalí; right, “Christ Pantocrator,” 6th Century, in the Monastery of Saint Catherine, Sinai, Egypt. NOTE: Near the bottom of the second column above, the reference to the Gospel of St. Mark should read, “Mark 14: 51-52.”
Clockwise from top left: Jeffrey Hunter in King of Kings (1961); Otello Sestili as Judas and Enrique Irazoqui as Jesus, The Gospel According to Saint Matthew (1964); Max von Sydow, The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
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