“Redemption” depicts a prison cell romance between Christ and Barabbas, in which “spellbound” by the thief’s brutishness, Christ comes to embrace his own humanity. Despite the irreverence, it is ...
“Vodsels couldn’t do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn’t siuwil, they couldn’t mesnishtil, they had no concept of slan. In their brutishness, they’d never evolved to use ...