Product Details

• Format: NTSC
• Region: All Regions
• Studio: Vision Video
• DVD Release Date: May 24, 2006
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000F6ZEFA
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #190,712 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Quest for the True Cross is based on the book of the same name by Carsten Peter Thiede and Matthew D'Ancona. In a church in Rome is a piece of wood believed to have been brought back by Helena, mother of the first Christian Emperor, Constantine, in the 4th Century. It is clearly inscribed with the remains of the line, "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews." When Thiede examined this piece of wood, described as the titulus cruces, or headboard, of Christ's cross, he came to believe that, far from being a medieval fake, it was the real thing. The writing on the board, in three languages, bore all the marks of having been done in the 1st Century. Now, for only the fourth time in six hundred years, the titulus cruces has been removed from its protective covering. It has been examined and filmed in close up. So the film has become a detective story, following all the clues leading to Thiede's and D'Ancona's belief in the authenticity of this relic, and also an account of how the cross came, through Constantine's conversion and his political acuity, the symbol and icon it is today. It is a fascinating and timely story, about a small walnut headboard, which it seems may well have been attached to the true cross immediately before the Crucifixion.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "The Quest . . ." pulls a reasonable case out of abysmal noise., January 7, 2007

By	acwitko (New York, New York United States) - See all my reviews

"The Quest for the True Cross" is an amalgamation and scholarly distillation of the data surrounding the search for and purported finding of the True Cross; that is, the cross upon which Jesus of Nazareth was crucified. Although I was predisposed to dismiss this book as make believe, I was ever so incrementally persuaded by the reasonable and remarkable structure given to what I had regularly dismissed as an unfathomable legend. This treatise is a perfect example of the capacity of reason to deduce important meaning even amidst abysmal cultural, historical, and religious noise regarding this subject. The necessarily complex analysis of the long-ignored fragment of the Titulus Crucis, the inscribed headboard of Christ's cross, is compelling. "The Quest" is nothing less than awesome in its methodology and conclusions. A chip off "The Jesus Papyrus."