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Holy Moses! PBS documentary suggests Exodus not real
OrlandoSentinel.com ^ | July 21, 2008 | Hal Boedeker

Posted on 07/22/2008 2:37:05 AM PDT by Man50D

Abraham didn't exist? The Exodus didn't happen?

The Bible's Buried Secrets, a new PBS documentary, is likely to cause a furor.

"It challenges the Bible's stories if you want to read them literally, and that will disturb many people," says archaeologist William Dever, who specializes in Israel's history. "But it explains how and why these stories ever came to be told in the first place, and how and why they were written down."

The Nova program will premiere Nov. 18. PBS presented a clip and a panel discussion at the summer tour of the Television Critics Association.

The program says the Bible was written in the sixth century BC and that hundreds of authors contributed.

"At least the first five books of the Bible come together during the Babylonian exile," says producer Gary Glassman.

The program challenges long-held beliefs. Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn't exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University.

"These stories are unlikely to represent real historical events, but rather there's some kernel of ancient experience in there which has survived and which helps give identity to the people at the time the Bible finally took shape centuries and centuries later," Meyers says.

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To: Man50D

Abraham and Sarah are more real than ethics and honesty
at PBS.

But then if Abraham was gay, or a dictator, then
PBS would be on its knees before him.


21 posted on 07/22/2008 3:46:30 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: I still care
I doubt they did either, but if any were built during that period of captivity, then they would have been skilled enough to do it.

The skills to build thew temple in Israel (Herod's stones for example) had to come from somewhere, so no doubt their were many stone masons among them. Also farmers, and every other type of craftsmen

22 posted on 07/22/2008 3:47:35 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Man50D

Great to see PBS leaning on scholarship with its feet firmly planted in the 1800’s.


23 posted on 07/22/2008 3:52:42 AM PDT by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: Man50D
Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn't exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University.

Oh, if Carol says it, that settles it.

24 posted on 07/22/2008 3:54:35 AM PDT by Skooz (Property taxes are immoral)
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To: Man50D
"The program challenges long-held beliefs. Abraham, Sarah and their offspring probably didn't exist, says Carol Meyers, a religion professor at Duke University."

Is this the same Duke University whose professors were ready to lynch 3 Lacrosse Players three years ago?

Not surprised in the least.

25 posted on 07/22/2008 3:56:03 AM PDT by wmileo (I miss Ronald Wilson Reagan. POTUS #40)
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To: ClearCase_guy

It is also possible that the producer of this film screws his dog each day, and the little bitch begs for more.

It’s possible.

No one has proven otherwise.

We’ll leave it up to you to reach a conclusion.


26 posted on 07/22/2008 4:02:22 AM PDT by Notwithstanding ("You are either with America in our time of need or you are not" - Hillary from Senate well 9/12/01)
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To: Man50D
This isn't exactly new news. The books and ideas have been around for many years, even if PBS just discovered them.

I have one of the books, but haven't looked at it in awhile and am too lazy to do so now. But from (flawed) memory;

Textual analysis indicates 3 or 4 principal sources for the first 5 books of the old Testament.
In stories about events which supposedly occurred in the 10th or 11th centuries B.C. there are references to customs and practices which characterized the 6th century and were unknown to the earlier time.
There are no references in Egyptian records to the events described in the Bible.

That's all I can remember but it's pretty interesting stuff. Worth looking at.

27 posted on 07/22/2008 4:06:49 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: Nathan Zachary

The pyramids were built around 2600 B.C. Herod flourished 2500 years later.


28 posted on 07/22/2008 4:09:32 AM PDT by liberallarry
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To: Man50D

Lies brought to you via television sponsored by Satan.


29 posted on 07/22/2008 4:10:16 AM PDT by MBB1984
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To: Man50D
"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"

Just more of the liberal mo - attack what threatens your warped worldview. Bad old Christianity is anti-homosexual, pro-life and moral. Certainly can't stand that.

30 posted on 07/22/2008 4:17:33 AM PDT by Heartland Mom (Build the fence, secure our borders, deport illegals - Protect our sovereignty!)
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To: Man50D

The Bible is The Word Of God. If anyone disagrees with God, who is always right, he is automatically wrong. That’s simple arithmetic.


31 posted on 07/22/2008 4:28:44 AM PDT by RoadTest ( Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. But he spake of the temple of his body.)
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To: Man50D

My guess is the part about Abraham not existing will be minimized, though the rest, beginning with Sara won’t... The reason? Well, Abraham was the “father” of Judaism, Christianity, and islam... And while PBS will have no problem with claiming that the first two are based on lies and stories, we must remember that this IS a leftist front group, and as such, is inherently cowardly. And in this case, for good reason. Because though PBS and their ilk will talk about Christian “NAZIs” and such, they do know that insulting muslims regarding their faith WILL get them killed.

Mark


32 posted on 07/22/2008 4:34:01 AM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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To: Man50D

A few years ago, National Geographic did a lengthy illustrated piece on the construction of Egypt’s pyramids. There was no mention of Jews or Hebrews or Exodus. I let my subscription lapse, tossed out my mountains of back issues, and that was that.


33 posted on 07/22/2008 4:39:43 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: Man50D

Well, then answer me this smart guys: if it didn’t happen, then just what did Indiana Jones rescue in “Raiders of the Lost Ark”? Huh?? Don’t got an answer, do ya!


34 posted on 07/22/2008 4:41:11 AM PDT by Tanniker Smith (Teachers open the door. It's up to you to enter.)
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To: Man50D
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35 posted on 07/22/2008 4:42:11 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: Man50D

OK, break it up. Move along. Nothing to see here. It’s the same old story we’ve been being told for as long as the Bible has been considered by the Lord’s people to the divinely inspired word of God. These people have no concept of faith. They don’t believe any farther than they can see on a clear.


36 posted on 07/22/2008 5:03:53 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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To: Man50D

A woman’s right to choose and AGW are falsities.

There, I just dismissed two Liberal religious beliefs.


37 posted on 07/22/2008 5:18:26 AM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: jwparkerjr
They don’t believe any farther than they can see on a clear.

Day? ;-)

38 posted on 07/22/2008 5:18:55 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: coconutt2000
Like who killed Kennedy (either), or what really happened at Tora Bora, or where the heck was Obama born?

He was born in a stable.

Cordially,

39 posted on 07/22/2008 5:23:18 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Jonah Hex

Hmmmm... It’s the brain fade thing again! My brain just outpaces my fingers. Thanks for the assist.


40 posted on 07/22/2008 5:41:56 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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