The Bible and Music

I have seen many portrayals of the Exodus story in my previous education. By far my favorite is The Prince of Egypt because despite some of the inaccuracies and deviations from the biblical text.I think the music is expertly written and carries universal messages that are not only applicable to those who follow Christian traditions. For example, in “Through Heaven’s Eyes” Zipporrah’s father sings “When all you have is nothing, there’s a lot to go around.” I think that the use of music in this film is used to spread messages of love and humanity to several different religions. Jews, Muslims, and Christians are all connected to the exodus story in some way so I imagine many children of different denominations saw this movie growing up and hopefully some of the positive messages stuck with them. This movie is just one example of biblical stories being used to make a film. The music in these films is often very dramatic and inspiring which as someone who highly values music this helps me connect to the film and the story more.