I've had a hunch for quite a while that all those Biblical epics of the '50s were in fact allegories for, amongst other things, the Holocaust and the creation of the state of Israel. Patricia Erens does a little bit with this in her book (_The Jew in American Cinema_), but I'd like to develop it a bit further. Does anyone have suggestions for titles that might lend themselves to this sort of analysis? Has anyone seen any particularly good articles on the topic? Can anyone recommend sequences from biblical films that would provide particularly compelling analyses? Feel free to contact me individually, or publicly, if you'd like to share with the rest of the list. Steve Carr U of Texas--Austin [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]