Jesus Christ Superstar Do you think you're what they say you are...? I suspect this 1969 "rock opera" by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber was created to strip off 2000 years of filtering and interpretation, to challenge us to appreciate the actual context of the world Jesus lived in, to get a sense of the culture and society, the politics and the people of that world. The efforts of followers of Christianity to understand and explain and legitimize, end up distorting and distracting: the content... Sign in to see full entry.