Documentary on the History of Ancient Israel and the Hebrew Bible

Welcome to the scientific journey that began 3,000 years ago and continues today. The film presents the latest archeological scholarship from the Holy Land to explore the beginnings of modern religion and the origins of the Hebrew Bible, also known as the Old Testament.

This archeological detective story tackles some of the biggest questions in biblical studies:

Where did the ancient Israelites come from? Who wrote the Bible, when, and why? How did the worship of one God - the foundation of modern Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - emerge?

Sources for the documentary are listed at this link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/bibles-buried-secrets.html

Participants / contributors (biblical scholars, archeologists, etc):

Gabriel Barkay Bar-Ilan University

Amnon Ben-Tor The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Manfred Bietak Austrian Academy of Sciences www.oeaw.ac.at/oeaw_servlet/e_PersonenDetailsGeneric?id=10157

Elisabetta Boaretto Weizmann Institute

Joan R. Branham Providence College www.providence.edu/art/history/branham.htm

Thomas Cahill Author, The Gifts of the Jews

Shaye J.D. Cohen Harvard University

Michael Coogan Harvard Divinity School

Gila Cook Hebrew Union College - Jerusalem www.huc.edu/

William G. Dever University of Arizona

Hani Nur El-Din Al-Quds University

Avraham Faust Bar-Ilan University

Israel Finkelstein Tel Aviv University

David Ilan Hebrew Union College

Lee I. Levine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeology.huji.ac.il/depart/classical/leel/leel.asp

Peter Machinist Harvard University

Jodi Magness University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Amihai Mazar Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Eilat Mazar Shalem Center

P. Kyle McCarter Johns Hopkins University neareast.jhu.edu/

Carol Meyers Duke University www.duke.edu/religion/home/carol/cmeyers.html

Eric Meyers Duke University www.duke.edu/religion/home/eric/emeyers.html

Donald Redford Pennsylvania State University

Lawrence Stager Harvard University

Ephraim Stern The Hebrew University of Jerusalem dor.huji.ac.il/ES.html

Ron E. Tappy Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

Andrew G. Vaughn American Schools of Oriental Research homepages.gac.edu/~avaughn/

Sharon Zuckerman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem archaeology.huji.ac.il/depart/biblical/sharonz/sharonz.asp