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* Franco Zeffirelli's Jesus: A Spiritual Diary ( 1984, Harper & Row ) by Franco Zeffirelli ISBN 0-06-069780-6.

An account of the film from conception, along with Zeffirelli's main motivation for making it ( namely, removing sole responsibility for the death of Jesus from the Jews ), to final edit and audience reactions to it.