SUMARIO. A biblical story for the post-World War II generation : Victor Young’s music for DeMille’s Samson and Delilah / Turning away from concocted spectacle : Alfred Newman’s score for David and Bathsheba / Spectacle and authenticity in Miklos Rozsa’s Quo vadis score / Novel and film, music and miracle : Alfred Newman’s score to The robe / Spirit and empire : Elmer Bernstein’s score to The Ten Commandments / The law of genre and the music for Ben-Hur / King of kings and the problem of repetition / Suoni nuovi, suoni antich i: the soundscapes of Barabbas / Universality, transcendence, and collapse : music and the greatest story ever told.