As one of the few people in the world who speaks and understands Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew, Jack Miles belongs to “the over-educated sliver of the audience for “The Passion” that can hear both “original” languages with a measure of comprehension.” Of course there are historical inaccuracies. But “time will tell whether this film will have any longer a life or any deeper an impact than its predecessors in the genre, all of which seem faded or eccentric failures in retrospect. The plot of the Gospel—good, beautiful man confronts evil, ugly establishment, loses everything, but then miraculously wins everything back in the end—is Christianity’s supreme gift to Hollywood.”