* Judah Ben-Hur, main character of the 1880 Lew Wallace novel, " Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ".

Of his novels and biographies, he is best known for his historical novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ), a bestselling book since its publication, and called " the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century.

While serving as governor, Wallace completed his second novel, which made him famous: Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ).

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( New York: Harper & Brothers ), 1880.

* Lew Wallace, 11th governor of New Mexico Territory, Union general in the American Civil War, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

In 1880, prominent local citizen Lew Wallace produced Crawfordsville's most famous literary work, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a historical novel dealing with the beginnings of the Christianity in the Mediterranean world.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

His negotiations with governor Lew Wallace ( a famed Civil War general and author of the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ) for amnesty came to nothing.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1925 )

* February 15-General Lew Wallace, author of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The play, based on Lew Wallace's book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, opened on Broadway in November, 1899 and proved to be a great success.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ ( 1880 ) by Lew Wallace ; famously made into a film starring Charlton Heston ; set in the reign of Tiberius in Judaea, the Mediterranean, and Rome.

* A supporting character in Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and its various adaptations

It was the third-largest bestseller of its time, after Uncle Tom's Cabin and Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

* Judah Ben-Hur from Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers.

* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, 1887 printing, scanned book via Internet Archive

Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo.

Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, one of the best-selling books at that time.

A remake of the 1925 silent film with the same name, Ben Hur was adapted from Lew Wallace's 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

* The Story of the Making of ' Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ '.

Ben Hur is a 2003 animated film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, by Lew Wallace.

With the Crucifixion, Ben-Hur recognizes that the Christ stands for a different goal than revenge, and he becomes Christian, turning to supporting the new religion with money which he has inherited, inspired by love and the talk of keys to a greater kingdom than any on earth.

Ben-Hur is shocked at how his supporters have deserted Christ in his time of need.

Ben-Hur is eventually reunited with his mother and sister, who are suffering from leprosy but are miraculously cured by Christ.

Another example, as Martin Scorsese has noted on television, is in the 1959 Ben-Hur.

* November 18 – MGM's widescreen, multimillion dollar, Technicolor version of Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston, is released and becomes the studio's greatest hit up to that time.

Heston is known for heroic roles in films such as The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor ), El Cid, and Planet of the Apes.

Ben-Hur — filmed around the same time — contains two-tone sequences but is shot primarily in black-and-white with tinting and toning in many scenes.

He is a good friend of Judah Ben-Hur's Roman adoptive father Quintus Arrius, but he reminds Ben-Hur that he wields the emperor's own authority to keep peace in Judea.

Later examples appear in Ben-Hur ( 1925 ) and in Cecil B. DeMille ’ s Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ) and Cleopatra ( 1934 ), although the execution of the gesture is still variable.

Upon the film's release, Bosley Crowther wrote " it is hard to remember a picture — not excluding Henry V, Ivanhoe, Helen of Troy and, naturally, Ben-Hur — in which scenery and regal rites and warfare have been so magnificently assembled and photographed as they are in this dazzler ... The pure graphic structure of the pictures, the imposing arrangement of the scenes, the dynamic flow of the action against strong backgrounds, all photographed with the 70-mm.

The scene where Kearney beats a drum to make the campers work in the sweatshop is taken from the slave galley scene in the 1959 film Ben-Hur.

" The Cathy Eckhardt Story " ( fourth season, broadcast November 9, 1960 ) clearly shows the year is 1870, but in " The Charlene Brenton Story " ( late third season, broadcast 8 June 1960 ) reference is made to Bill Hawks ' having read the novel Ben-Hur, which was not published until 1880.

As far as it goes, this confession is broad and unqualified, and it ought and would be sufficient were it not that books of mine — Ben-Hur and The Prince of India — have led many persons to speculate concerning my creed ....

The giving a cup of water to Ben-Hur at the well near Nazareth is the only violation of this rule ...

Judah Ben-Hur is a prince descended from a royal family of Judaea.

Esther, Simonides and Malluch talk together, and conclude that Ben-Hur is who he claims to be, and that he is on their side in the fight against Rome.

For Ben-Hur, Simonides bribes Sejanus to remove the prefect Valerius Gratus from his post, who is succeeded by Pontius Pilate.

Understanding the betrayal, Ben-Hur is spotted by a priest who tries to take him into custody ; he breaks away and flees.

In the tenth year of Emperor Nero's reign, Ben-Hur is staying with Simonides, whose business has been successful.

Ben-Hur is a wealthy Jew and boyhood friend of the powerful Roman Tribune, Messala.

Ben-Hur is sent to work in the galley of a Roman warship.