Biblical Intertextuality (Part 6): Five Biblical Themes in “The Matrix”
Given the basic plot of The Matrix, there are five essential biblical themes, one of which is a “Jonah theme,” that are essential to furthering the plot. The ot...
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Biblical Intertextuality (Part 5): Jonah and The Matrix (along with a few other biblical themes)
As hard as it is to believe, The Matrix is 16 years old. As I sat in the movie theater, watching The Matrix for the first time, I had two distinct impressions. ...
Biblical Intertextuality: Jonah in Moby Dick–Father Mapple’s Sermon (Part 2)
At various times in college, I attempted to read Moby Dick—I failed every time. My natural inclination was toward poetry, and Moby Dick was a novel…a long novel...
Biblical Intertextuality: Looking for Jonah in Modern Literature and Film (Part 1)
Back when I was in graduate school at Trinity Western University, I wrote my master’s thesis on the book of Jonah. There was one chapter of it, though, that I e...
U2 and Faith…in Zoo Station
By the end of the 1980s, U2 had become one of the most, if not the most, popular rock bands in the world. Their Joshua Tree album of 1987 gave us songs like “I ...