I’m one of the strange people. I prefer facts to truth. A single cold hearted fact is worth more than a thousand feel good truths in my book. Thus, one of my favourite books is The Bible Unearthed. It’s a book about the factual history of Judaism and how much of what we think we know about it and the Bible is incorrect.
For example, there’s no evidence of the exodus out of Egypt nor for the existence of Abraham. We’re not talking “the details are in dispute”. We’re talking “there are no details to get in a dispute about because it didn’t happen”. In fact, up until about the 7th century BCE there isn’t much that can be said about ancient Israel.
So, it was a pleasant surprise to find out via The Atheist Jew that the book has been made into a documentary. It’s such a fascinating story, I encourage all to watch it. It’s been broken into ten clips. The first one is below. The others can be found on google.
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"People who advocate freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without the awful roar of the thunder and lightning.
Without struggle, there is no progress. This struggle might be a moral one. It might be a physical one. It might be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. People may not get all that they pay for in this world, but they certainly pay for all that they get." ~ Frederick Douglas
Thanks for the posting on the video clips on “The Bible Unearthed,” I have the book but didn’t realize a documentary for TV had recently been released. I just finised watching the 10 video clips on-line at Google. I am a secular humanist and my interest is in the “pre-biblical” origins of Genesis’ Garden of Eden as reworked Mesopotamian myths.
Those interested in said subject are invited to visit my website and peruse my research which is of an anthropolgical and secular nature. cf. http://www.bibleorigins.net