Posted on 03/19/2013 8:24:14 AM PDT by fwdude
With Ninja angels in ancient Sodom, the highly publicized TV miniseries "The Bible," which made its national debut Sunday night on the History Channel, does not always stick to Scripture, despite being produced by two famous Christians and having numerous biblical experts as well as Texas megapastor Joel Osteen advising on the project.
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I’m always amazed by the predictability of those clamoring for something wholesome on TV to have it given them in spades and then to badmouth the good because it wasn’t the perfect.
Here they have the bible, and I guess they’re encouraging folks to watch “Chainsaw Massacre Part 666” instead because Salome didn’t dance and because Daniel was in the reviewing stand.
It’s madness.
I specifically mentioned the character of Samson as portrayed in the series; Samson's parents were Israelites from the tribe of Dan. They were not black Africans with dreadlocks; they were Jews with olive skin and dark hair. Whether or not the true "cast" of the Bible was diverse (and yes, it was), given Downey's gushing protestations of love for Obama, along with the miscasting of Samson, it seems diversity might have been uppermost in her mind. Even over accuracy.
"I’d say you were the PC one, where every image of the Bible is north European"
Well, actually, if I had put forth such a view, it would be the opposite of PC, wouldn't it? Besides, I never put forth any such foolish opinion, so why are you trying to attribute it to me?
We should throw out children's Bible story books because they're not exactly like the Bible.
Yeah. Sheesh.
After all, the Egyptian empire of the day included well into the Sudan, and, they were in Egypt for 400 years.
Lots can happen.
Group in Africa Has Jewish Roots, DNA indicates
By NICHOLAS WADE
The Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba. They practice circumcision, keep one day a week holy and avoid eating pork or piglike animals, such as the hippopotamus.Several groups around the world practice Judaic rites or claim to be descended from Biblical tribes without having any ancestral Jewish connection. And there is no Buba in the records of Jewish history.
But the remarkable thing about the Lemba tradition is that it may be exactly right. A team of geneticists has found that many Lemba men carry in their male chromosome a set of DNA sequences that is distinctive of the cohanim, the Jewish priests believed to be the descendants of Aaron. The priestly genetic signature is particularly common among Lemba men who belong to the senior of their 12 groups, known as the Buba clan. The discovery of the Lemba's Jewish ancestry has come about through the intertwining of two unusual strands of inquiry. One was developed by geneticists in the United States, Israel and England who wondered what truth there might be to the Jewish tradition that priests are the descendants of Aaron, the elder brother of Moses.
The other strand was provided by Dr. Tudor Parfitt, director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Parfitt, who has done research among the Lemba for 10 years, believes that he has discovered Senna, the mysterious northern city from which Lemba tradition maintains they came, and that he can retrace their steps from Senna to Africa, maybe a thousand years ago.
The genetic side of the story began when Dr. Karl Skorecki, a kidney expert at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, was sitting in a synagogue in Toronto. Skorecki, who is a priest, wondered if a fellow cohen who was being called to attend the first Torah reading might be distantly related to him, as the tradition of priestly descent from Aaron implied.
He called Dr. Michael F. Hammer of the University of Arizona, an expert who studies the genetics of human populations through the male or Y chromosome. Unlike the other chromosomes, the genetic material on the Y chromosome is not shuffled every generation, obscuring the lines of individual descent. Y chromosomes are bequeathed from father to son, more or less unchanged apart from the occasional mutation.
The mutations are particularly helpful for reconstructing population history because each lineage of men has its own distinctive pattern of mutations. It was a Y chromosome study last year that confirmed the oral tradition among the descendants of the slave Sally Hemings that their ancestor was Thomas Jefferson, the nation's third President.
Hammer, Skorecki and their colleagues reported in 1997 that they had analyzed the Y chromosomes of priests and lay Jews (priests, a hereditary caste, are different from rabbis and also from Levites). They found that a particular pattern of DNA changes was much more common among the priests than among laymen. The pattern was equally recognizable in Ashkenazic and Sephardic priests, even though these two branches of the Jewish population have long been geographically separated.
I'm not into politically correct pandering, which is what that casting was....and from Downey's gushing over Obama, I see why she IS swallowed up with it.
http://bibleresources.org/bible-samsons-race/
I concur they are telling many portions of the Bible very well.
I do wonder why some portions are explicitly changed.
Shadrach, Mishach, and Abendigo,....why not name them and present them as the story is presented in Scripture?
Major and Minor Prophets,...OK they present Jeremiah, Daniel and some mention of others, but it also might be summarized to express major portions.
I have to admit,..I wonder why Obama looks so much like Satan and not the other way around...;^)
Yep Matthew ch 11 v 16-19 applies it seems.
Agree. It gets so old...so many authorities on so many things!
6Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah were four of the young men chosen, all from the tribe of Judah. 7The chief official renamed them with these Babylonian names: Daniel was called Belteshazzar. Hananiah was called Shadrach. Mishael was called Meshach. Azariah was called Abednego.
Their names were changed in captivity. They showed them in the movie before captivity and afterward.
This line in the article linked to is pure speculation.
There are lots of things NOT mentioned in the bible, and their not being mentioned means absolutely nothing.
Daniel's location at the time of the Golden IMage and the Fiery Furnace is not addressed.
ANY answer given to the question of his location is speculation.
My resources are easily as good as "bibleresources.org". My link to the DNA study says that mixing of DNA is just the way things sometimes happen.
The real point of this is that folks are making a huge point out of a silly objection when they should be excited that someone is telling the bible story of Samson.
Just to consider: If Moses' wife was black, then what were her parents?
Song of Solomon 1:5 KJV I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. Song of Solomon 1:6 KJV Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept .
They tried to pull off a major production of 10 hours on about a 20 million dollar budget.
It strikes me that they could cover only so much.
The one for certain bloodline we know of in The Bible is pure according to the laws is that of Christ and His bloodline as related to both Mary and Joseph. Matthew gives Joseph's family and Luke gives Mary's with both sides traced to Jesse.
My apologies to you. I think I cast a generalization of some Freepers attitude to you.
You are most likely correct in the Samson issue, but I think splitting hairs gets Christians no where when it comes to making most people aware of the Bible as a story of PEOPLE. That most don’t identify with and maybe with this ‘diverse’ cast... CAN IDENTIFY WITH.
SO RIGHT ON!!!! I think hyperbole was used in the Bible fables, and yet if it is not identical to the interpretation of Hebrew by English writers... IT’S WRONG!!!
I think that is wrong. Just my humble opinion as a Christian.
Yeah, I agree... I didn’t color Sunday School class pictures as Freepers think I should have. To Hell I go I guess...
Dinchaknow: angels are all Caucasians
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