Middleton, Darren J.N., ed. Scandalizing Jesus: Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years On. Featuring essays by Martin Scorsese, Peter Bien, & Peter T. Chattaway. New York; London: Continuum, 2005. xxi, 265 p.

ISBN 0826416063 hbk; 9780826416063 hbk; 0826416071 pbk; 9780826416070 pbk

Contains: "Foreword" by Don Cupitt (pp. ix-x); Darren J.N. Middleton, "Introduction: Literary Lord, Screen Savior" (pp. xv-xxi).

Part I Literary Lord. Peter Bien, "Vie de Jésus as a Primary Source for The Last Temptation" (pp. 3-18); W. Barnes Tatum, "The Novel, the Four Gospels, and the Continuing Historical Quest" (pp. 19-33); Lewis Owens, "Pontius Pilate: Modern Man in Search of a Soul" (pp. 35-46); Daniel A. Dombrowski, "Kazantzakis, Chalcedonian Orthodoxy, and Monophysitism" (pp. 47-60); Pamela J. Francis, "Reading Kazantzakis through Gregory of Nyssa: Some Common Anthropological Themes" (pp. 61-71); Vrasidas Karalis, "The Unreality of Repressed Desires in The Last Temptation" (pp. 73-83); Roderick Beaton, "The Temptation That Never Was: Kazantzakis and Borges" (pp. 85-95); C.D. Gounelas, "'This Clay Bird Is the Soul of Man': A Platonic Reading of Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation" (pp. 97-110); Charitini Christodoulou, "In the Name-of-the-Father: The Semiotic Threat over the Symbolic Logos" (pp. 111-123); Jen Harrison, "An Unholy Trinity: Women in Pre-Easter Patriarchy" (pp. 125-133); Mini Chandran, "Distant Flutter of a Butterfly: The Indian Response to The Last Temptation" (pp. 135-145).

Part II Screen Savior. Elizabeth H. Flowers and Darren J.N. Middleton, "Satan and the Curious: Texas Evangelicals Read The Last Temptation of Christ" (pp. 147-155); Peter T. Chattaway, "Battling the Flesh: Sexuality and Spirituality in The Last Temptation of Christ" (pp. 157-171); Lloyd Baugh, S.J., "Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ: A Critical Reassessment of Its Sources, Its Theological Problems, and Its Impact on the Public" (pp. 173-192); Melody D. Knowles and Allison Whitney, "Teaching the Temptation: Seminarians Viewing The Last Temptation of Christ" (pp. 193-202); Randolph Jordan, "The Dual Substance of Cinema: What Kazantzakis's Christ Can Teach Us about Sound/Image Relationship in Film" (pp. 203-216); Eftychia Papanikolaou, "Identity and Ethnicity in Peter Gabriel's Sound Track for The Last Temptation of Christ" (pp. 217-228); Martin Scorsese, "On Reappreciating Kazantzakis" (pp. 229-230).

Austin S. Lingerfelt, "Webliography" (pp. 231-236); "For Further Reading" (pp. 237-243).