Amziah King (Matthew McConaughey), a beekeeper and banjo player, is the leader of this rag-tag crew, and there’s an intentional hokiness to his dramatic entrance. Patterson shoots him low ...

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The Messiah is a collection of gnomic scriptural passages that are prophetic in import but offer no story at all. King proceeds to relay more about Jennens’s inner life and creative struggles ...

Dr. King is a professor at Georgetown and the author of “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah.’” When Charles Jennens, a wealthy art collector ...