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1 online resource (streaming video file) (1 hr.) ; 324015901 bytes |
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Come on a scientific journey to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, otherwise known as the Old Testament.In this two-part program screened over consecutive Sunday nights, The Bible's Buried Secrets brings together decades of archaeological exploration and more than a century of meticulous literary research of the Holy Land. As a result, it sheds new light on how the ancient Israelites finally turned their back on idol worship to find their one God - a God that is now central to the world's three biggest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.Narrated by Liev Schreiber and incorporating Bible readings from Stockard Channing, this scientific detective story unfolds through careful study of archaeological artefacts left behind by the ancient Israelites.The doco's archaeologists and biblical scholars tackle major questions such as where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, when and why? And how did the worship of one God emerge? They also offer provocative new insights, such as:*The first five books of the Bible were not written by Moses, as traditionally held, but by at least four different groups of scribes writing over several hundred years.*Deciding to worship just one God was a process that took hundreds of years to evolve, and only truly happened after the Israelites' devastating exile in Babylon - centuries later than previously thought - as proven by the discovery of pagan idols at dozens of ancient Israelite archaeological sites.*There is no historical evidence to prove that the Exodus - the mass movement of Israelites from Egypt - actually took place.The Bible's Buried Secrets is a powerful partnership between science and scholarship which transports viewers into the world of the Old Testament through guided explorations of ancient ruins, interviews with experts, animations of biblical passages and dramatic recreations of Biblical events. (From the US) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 2) CC WS |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2010-09-12 at 19:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Antiquities, Prehistoric.
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Archaeological expeditions.
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Bible and science.
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Bible stories, Hebrew.
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Religion -- Study and teaching.
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Israel.
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Streaming video
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Glassman, Gary, director
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Schreiber, Liev, cast
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