Nativity of Jesus in later culture
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- This article deals with depictions of the Nativity of Jesus outside the fields of painting and sculpture. For depictions of the Nativity of Jesus in the fields of painting and sculpture, see Nativity of Jesus in art.
The Nativity of Jesus has been depicted in various ways outside the figurative arts.
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[edit] Literature
[edit] Novels
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Part One (1880)
- Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt (2005)
[edit] Drama
- The Nativity appears in many cycles of the Mystery Plays
- The first play of Dorothy L Sayers's radio-play cycle The Man Born to be King deals with the birth of Jesus.
[edit] Film
- Ben-Hur 's prologue recounts the Nativity, and Balthasar (a major character) also recounts it in the third person later in the film (1959)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) begins with the Nativity
- Monty Python's Life of Brian (1978) depicts the Magi arriving at the wrong stable and almost giving their gifts to the infant Brian, before realising their mistake and going next door to the stable where Jesus is.
- The Nativity Story (2006)
[edit] Television
- Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
- The Nativity (1978)
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