What comes to mind when you hear the Imperial March play in the Star Wars universe? “Dun dun dun, dun da dun, dun da dun.” What if I told you the Bible has its own version of Frodo’s sword or Darth Vader’s song?

Adaptation demands change, while audiences often search for faithfulness. According to scholars, adaptations by definition are never meant to be fully faithful to the original material.

You may have watched Odysseus wrestle with the consequences of violating Zeus’s sacred law of hospitality and may have wondered: “Wait, why does this sound so familiar?”