Actually I wish it was at least four hours long. I hated to see it end. It was all that to me. :-)
I majored in History in college and one of the things I have against the profession and the PhD’s who sit atop it is their inflexibility. Once they publish and a particular structure is generally accepted (such as the Egyptian chronology and the almost baseless identification of Exodus with the reign of Rameses II) they won’t even look at any new evidence coming out of the ground. And of course, the only fully extant historical records in our hands, the Torah and the New Testament, must be whole cloth mythology. It has more than a whiff of latent anti-Semitism and anti-Christian bias. If the Bible was unknown and newly discovered tomorrow on a set of clay tablets they would fall over each other trying to relate the contents to the archaeology.