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Any word yet on changes to the audio material for the Varese re-release?
I feel like I'm always asking this question (in regard to other Varese re-releases of Ryko CD soundtracks), but does anyone have a strong opinion or whether to buy the Varese of this title if I already have the Ryko?
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"Ophal Quarters"
Interesting to see Darby's (or Newman's or Stevens's) error still surviving these forty years. Surely "offal" was intended -- i.e.,
"rubbish" or especially "the viscera and trimmings of a butchered animal." I believe this cue accompanied our first view of Von Sydow as he observes the corruption and suffering of Jerusalem from a shadowed doorway.
Based on the visual context within the film, John, your judgment would seem appropriate enough, but actually "Ophel" is the name of a fortified hill on the SE corner of Jerusalem across the Kidron valley which coincided with the original site of the old citadel of "Zion," also known as the old "City of David." "Ophel" means tower or hill, as in the reference to Migdal Eder ("tower of the flock") in Micah 4:8: "The tower of the flock, the Ophel of the daughter of Zion." Most reputable Bibles with a map of first-century Jerusalem (before the destruction of the Temple by the Romans) label the walled area in its SE corner as "City of David (Ophel)."
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Thanks George, Ray and everyone for helping with my queries: now I know where the Last Supper went.
As regards the 'Ophel' thing, the title should be 'The OPHEL QUARTER'(singular). As George says, it was a high section directly south of the Temple area, containing a synagogue for freedmen and a housing area, the old 'David's City'. Herod the Great divided the city into four defensible separate areas, (the Northern City (Besetha), the 'Upper City', the 'Lower City' and the 'Ophel Quarter') by massive fortifications.
And other informative stuff.
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As regards the 'Ophel' thing, the title should be 'The OPHEL QUARTER'(singular). As George says, it was a high section directly south of the Temple area, containing a synagogue for freedmen and a housing area, the old 'David's City'.
You're right, William, it should be "Ophel quarter" (singular). Apparently at the time of the Herodian reconstruction, it was used as a priests' quarter, with access to the Temple through a long tunnel leading to the Temple's south gate.
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Ray,
Thanks for that sequencing list. I'll have to "assemble" it on CD for the car. 
Pete
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