El embarazo adolescente de la Virgen María

nativity.jpgHabía visto los anuncios de The Nativity Story en los cines, pero no les presté mucha atención. “¿Qué es esto? ¿La Pasión de Cristo: Episodio 1?” “Zzzz…”

Pero leyendo a Laslo Rojas en Extracine me entero que TNS fue dirigida por Catherine Hardwicke, la directora de A los trece, una película de una crudeza un poco cliché, pero muy atractiva y enérgica. Ese buen antecedente me animó a comprar mi entradita para The Nativity Story este fin de semana.

Tsk-tsk.

No cometan el mismo error. Resultó bastante convencional -salvo tres o cuatro escenas bien planteadas-, sin rastro alguno que permita emparentarla con la película anterior de Hardwicke.

Pero…

(nótese el suspenso)

Pero -decía- más allá de su poco vuelo cinematográfico, TNS refresca una serie de tópicos histórico/religiosos que vale la pena revisar.

Para empezar -y corríjanme si me equivoco-, creo que es la primera vez que una película muestra claramente que la Virgen María era casi una niña -se supone que tenía sólo trece años- cuando quedó embarazada. El cálculo de la edad no sólo proviene de viejas tradiciones, sino de un hecho concreto: las mujeres judías de la época se casaban a esa edad.

Pero una de las tradiciones no representadas es la que señala que San José era mucho mayor que María (un evangelio apócrifo menciona, incluso, que al momento de su matrimonio el carpintero tenía noventa años). En la película, José no pasa de los treinta.

También aparecen los tres reyes magos. En TNS no son reyes, tan sólo magos, lo que es correcto según las escrituras. Pero -como a estas alturas ya todo el mundo sabe- nadie nunca dijo que los magos sean tres, como se muestra en el film. Tampoco se mencionó que se llamaran Melchor, Gaspar y Baltazar (nombres que surgieron recién en el siglo VIII). Y menos aún, nadie nunca hizo siquiera la más mínima referencia a que los tres sean graciositos.

La estrella de Belén se presenta en la película como la alineación de dos planetas y una estrella. Esto parece ser un guiño a la vieja teoría de Kepler (debatida hasta la actualidad) acerca de que los magos podrían haberse guiado por una conjunción de Júpiter y Saturno en el año 7 antes de Cristo (en la película son Júpiter y Venus).

(Por cierto, si la fecha de aparición de la estrella de Belén en el año 7 ANTES de Cristo les suena extraña, podrían irse enterando que los cálculos de la mayoría de historiadores sitúan el nacimiento de Jesús entre los años 6 y 4 A.C., no en el año 1. Y olvídense del 25 de diciembre, por favor.)

En fin, el tema da para largo y si alguien conoce alguna tradición no mencionada aquí, está invitado a compartirla. Y aquí les dejo el trailer de The Nativity Story, para que se ahorren el trabajo de ir a verla.

(Dos consejillos: Si quieren ver una película religiosa de verdad, vayan a Polvos y consíganse El Evangelio Según San Mateo, de Pier Paolo Pasolini. Pero si lo que quieren es otra película que muestre el nacimiento de una leyenda, corran al cine y disfruten Casino Royale, la última -y diría yo que definitiva- película de James Bond.)

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  • http://xpresa.blogspot.com Eduardo

    No deja de ser interesante toda la información religiosa cristiana, sobre todo si llega a contradecirse y además demuestra algunos fallos historicos, y creencias populares…

    Tal vez, me parece, que este tipo de películas (como tu la describes porque no la he visto, y sinceramente no la veré) que demuestra la histotia típica de la natividad de Jesús con un toque de realismo, crueldad y se atreve a romper los esquemas bíblicos…

    Por cierto, yo me habia olvidado del 25 de Diciembre…

  • gamma-normids

    Mencionaste que la actriz tambien está embarazada? :)

    Pajiba.com tiene una buena reseña, diciendo que no es nada de lo ordinario, definitivamente no el “acontecimiento del año” como dicen los periodicos.

  • http://www.condecoracioneshonrosas.blogspot.com Eduardo

    Hace un tiempo entrevisté a una poetisa, Cecilia Podestá, que tiene un poemario, “La primera anunciación”, donde expone la idea de que el ángel Gabriel se le presenta a José antes que a María advirtiéndolo de lo que sucedería, que María nunca sería su mujer, y que él tendría que sacrificarse como “hombre”. Entonces comienza así el libro: “Yo quiero que ese niño nazca muerto María, poco me importa ser el padre de un salvador…” Ahí también hablá sobre un José anciano y una María de 13 o 14 años, no lo recuerdo, “sacado de los textos apócrifos” -me dijo- de no recuerdo quién. Saludos.

  • http://www.desdeeltercerpiso.blogspot.com Jose Alejandro Godoy

    De haber nacido en diciembre, no habrían habido pastores que acudieran a adorar a Jesús, ya que en la zona hace un frío bastante intenso en esa época del año. Las estimaciones señalan que habría nacido en marzo o abril.

    Y la recomendación de Pasolini es imprescindible para cualquier cinemero.

  • http://reagno.blogspot.com Reaño

    qué dirá Guille?

  • Prejuiciosa

    Guille, creo que el pueblo no-tan-vruto te reclama.

  • Kevin

    Si quieren aprender algo de religión, encontrarán muy buenos documentales en los videos de Google (http://video.google.com/), lo que les sugiero para las búsquedas es: “Beyond Belief”, “Sam Harris”. Ya es tiempo que los peruanos despertemos, y un buen libro para ello sería “The God Delusion” por Richard Dawkins.

    Lo siguiente no es SPAM, pero me da flojera traducirlo…

    ==================================

    Good evening everyone. I’m your neighbor David Cowan, and I have the
    great pleasure of introducing tonight’s author, Oxford University
    Professor Richard Dawkins. His contributions to evolutionary biology
    have earned him the Faraday Award, the Kistler Prize, and the Kelvin
    Medal.

    In the spirit of his late friend Douglas Adams, Professor Dawkins has
    launched a campaign, along with allies Michael Shermer, Daniel Dennett
    and Penn Jillette, to change the course of history. To understand how,
    please permit me 2 minutes to explain how he has already changed the
    course of my life.

    Here in Silicon Valley we’re acutely aware of the many hackers who
    marshal other people’s resources on the internet to suit their own
    means. We understand how malicious programmers employ various
    technologies to embed viruses in our computers, turning them into
    zombies that quietly do the evil programmer’s bidding in the
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    spyware you know how common and resilient these infections are.
    Indeed, without our knowledge, many of our computers at home are so
    compromised, inciting them to snoop, steal, spam, phish and infect.
    Criminals regularly rent entire networks of zombies-often 50,000 PC’s
    strong. For example, they might instruct their rented zombies to
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    such time as the owner of the web site wires a ransom payment to the
    extorters’ Cayman Islands bank account.

    Like their organic cousins, computer viruses MUTATE, ATTACK, RESIST
    and TRANSMIT. Since there really is an intelligent designer behind
    computer viruses, their MUTATIONS are not random-they come in the form
    of new instructions downloaded as the viruses regularly re-connect
    with the virus Creator.

    The ATTACK involves execution of some program that serves the
    interests of the Creator, not the PC owner.

    The viruses RESIST your anti-virus software sometimes by disabling it,
    and also by embedding themselves into your computer in so many
    different ways that only one of them needs to survive your anti-virus
    defenses for the Creator to re-establish control.

    And finally, the virus TRANSMITS to new hosts through email, instant
    messages, shared multimedia documents, or so-called worms that burrow
    through buggy software.

    Obviously you don’t want a zombie in your home-it exposes you to
    identity theft, wreaks havoc on others, clogs up your internet
    connection, and eventually cripples your computer. Now that’s bad
    enough, but we’re here today to hear about a much more dangerous kind
    of zombie network…

    50,000 computers are a useful resource to steal, but what if instead
    one could recruit a zombie army a thousand times larger, and comprised
    of human hosts? That would be a formidable resource-one that commands
    high rents from businesses, politicians, criminals and military
    aggressors.

    Of course, people aren’t as pliable as computers-we have our own needs
    and desires. To compel us to follow someone else’s ATTACK plan, the
    virus Creator would have to fool us into thinking that HIS interests
    were actually OUR interests. And to effect MUTATIONS, the Creator must
    compel us to return periodically-say, every Sunday-to download new
    instructions.

    But human beings are smart enough to recognize our own interests,
    right? After all, each of us has eyes, ears and a brain at our
    disposal. So the virus Creator, borrowing from the 4-step recipe,
    would have to somehow RESIST our defenses. He might disable our powers
    of observation and our logical faculties by making us feel good about
    believing things without evidence, and convincing us that it’s somehow
    incorrect, dangerous, a-social or unhealthy to question such leaps of
    faith.

    Finally, the zombies must feel compelled to TRANSMIT their zombie
    status to other hosts. The easiest hosts to infect, of course, are the
    people most receptive to new inputs, most gullible, and easiest to
    control. And so children are most vulnerable to infection by zombie
    viruses.

    I wish this were simply science fiction, but it’s not.

    I know because I was a child zombie. I was convinced that following
    Halachah (literally, the Path), would lead me to Heaven, where all my
    needs and desires would be satisfied. I refreshed my programming for
    hours every day in synagogue and Talmud class, and aspired to the
    loftiest status in my community-a man of faith.

    Fortunately, my virus Creator didn’t send me on suicide missions-just
    a few protests at the U.N. now and then-but I prepared myself for an
    adulthood in which I would serve the Creator, breeding new zombies
    along the way.

    Luckily, my particular strain of the zombie virus allows for
    university education, and it was there that I learned enough history,
    sociology, science and comparative religion to diagnose my condition.
    As I engaged my powers of observation and logic, I dismissed the
    fantasies foisted upon me, and turned my attention instead to
    scholarship, sports and girls. But like a child who has learned the
    truth about Santa Claus, I went along with the story, afraid to
    disappoint my parents. After all, what’s the harm?

    As you know, removing most of the spyware in your PC just isn’t good
    enough–all it takes is one program to restore allegiance to the
    Creator. The same is true in human zombies, and so when I read
    Professor Dawkins’ book Devil’s Chaplain-particularly the chapter
    titled Viruses of the Mind–I scanned my own programming and found the
    zombie virus lying dormant inside me. Approaching fatherhood at the
    time, I confronted the reality that if I simply entertain the
    possibility of Jehova’s dominion, or even humor those who do, I will
    strain my children’s logical faculties, exposing them to the zombie
    virus.

    So, together with my wife Nathalie, we came out of the closet.

    My parents were stunned, but they have accepted me as an Atheist. We
    can now raise our children to be critical thinkers, scientists,
    independent minds who must do what their parents tell them to do, but
    are free to believe only what makes sense to them. When my
    six-year-old asked me if the tooth fairy’s real, I challenged him to
    figure it out himself. So when his next tooth fell out he stowed it
    under his pillow without telling anyone, and in the morning he had his
    answer. And even without religion, our children treat people
    kindly-not for divine compensation-but to satisfy their natural caring
    instincts.

    I’ve shared my own story about the impact of our guest’s earlier book,
    because in his newest one, The God Delusion, the professor explicitly
    challenges his allegedly agnostic readers to stop hiding in the
    closet. It’s really okay to come out. Jehova, Jesus and Allah deserve
    no more respect than the tooth fairy, Zeus, Santa Claus, or Pooh Bear,
    and voicing your honest assessment of ancient fairy tales doesn’t make
    you a Communist, an enemy of the state, or even a bad child.

    So why does he do this anyway? Why does a great scientist descend from
    the higher realm of truth to muck around in human irrationality?

    At first Professor Dawkins had simply dismissed and ignored the zombie
    viruses that thwart popular support for evolution despite the
    overwhelming evidence. But he came to observe that humanity has even
    more than science at stake. Religion is a powerful zombie virus that
    not only retards science, but also promotes terrorism, precludes
    peace, distorts democracy, undermines educators, prohibits stem cell
    research, suppresses women’s rights and impoverishes the gullible.

    The professor decided it was time to stand up and say out loud not
    just that the Emperor has no clothes, but there is no Emperor at all.

    Now please join me with gratitude and jubilance in welcoming to our
    community the man they call Darwin’s rottweiler. Friends, let’s bring
    down the house for that Shameless Infidel, the Trinity of the
    Anti-Christ, Dajil, and Apikores all wrapped up into the Great Satan
    himself, Dr. Richard Dawkins!

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