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you're watching Nova video podcast I'm
Gary Glassman from providence pictures
producer writer and director of Noah's
the Bible's buried secrets on Tristan
Braco associate producer and senior
researcher
ever since the 17th century scholars
mostly European scholars have been
thinking about who wrote the Bible
questioning whether or not it was really
God or Moses my background is in
Biblical Archaeology in biblical studies
and and this is widely accepted that
many people wrote the Bible over a long
period of time the writing of the Bible
becomes a dramatic part of the story it
was an important part of creating a
people called Israel and finding their
God we wanted to make sure that we put
faces and places and action to the
actual writing of the Bible and it was
very important to show different people
over different times depicting them in
different styles of clothing different
dress different locations to really
bring home that idea that there were
multiple groups of people writing over
centuries
we wanted to film in Israel because we
knew we could find people who could
write Hebrew there and secondly we
wanted people who were professional
scribes they people who actually draw
right Toras Torah scrolls today so we
had our production manager in Israel
contact some scribal schools and gets
some of their students and I think maybe
some instructors to to be our recreation
Actor's and most of the scribes you see
are actually are either rabbis or so
freeing scribes the scribes that we use
in our recreation are used to writing
Hebrew as you see today what we had them
write is a form of Hebrew that was used
at the time of David and Solomon Josiah
and other Israelite kings it looks quite
different unless you see the evolution
of the script you wouldn't know that the
two were related basically what I did
was just to sit down with them with this
script chart and tell them you know this
this is an all this is an a this is a
bet this is a bee-zooka mola syzygy and
so forth they were pretty quick studies
we wanted to be able to film in great
detail you know when you think about
writing it's not exactly an action scene
but to get the detail of the texture and
the ink going on to the page and the
scribe holding the quill and we put a
lot of attention to all of the fabrics
and the surfaces and we shot in
beautiful HD so we knew that there was
going to be a beauty and attraction to
that so we wanted to be able to film
extremely close up and Tristan and being
a PhD from Harvard didn't want to be
attacked by other PhDs who could
actually recognize that stuff
it's true and they will I hope people
can look past the fact that we're
presenting the idea that God did not
write the Bible Moses do not write the
Bible and appreciate instead that the
Bible was written group the great effort
of a lot of people and was written to
address specific problems and in
reaction to historical events and I
think there should be a reverence than
that that's exactly right i mean i find
it very inspiring that this was an
endeavor that took place over centuries
by many people grappling with the same
question of who are we here in this
world and how can we leave this world a
better place and i find that very
inspiring
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