It all boils down to what you want in your Biblical epic.
No biblical epic would be worth the name without a few showstoppers.
If you were making a biblical epic, whom would you get to play God?
And of course we've all seen the grand biblical epics from the fifties.
In biblical epics and similar movies, God's voice is generally cast to provide a sense of authority.
This biblical epic also shows the graphic defeat of the Roman army.
Leonard also notes that Milton "did not at first plan to write a biblical epic."
The film consisted of the rushes for a Biblical epic that was a film-within-the-play.
Suddenly they all start singing the same song and later, as if in a biblical epic, it starts raining frogs.
Such biblical epics have less trouble with this obliquity than non-biblical works.