NOVA | The Bible's Buried Secrets | PBS
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God is
dead or so it must have seemed to the
ancestors of the Jews in 586
BC Jerusalem and the temple to their God
are in
Flames the nation of Israel founded by
King David is wiped
out it would have seemed to have been
the end but it was rather the beginning
for out of The Crucible of Destruction
emerges a sacred book The
Bible and an idea that will change the
world the belief in one
God this is a new idea it was an idea
that nobody had ever had before
monotheism is well ensconced so
something major happened which is very
hard to
trace now a provocative news story from
discoveries deep within the earth and
the Bible we wanted to examine the
possibility that the remains of King
David's Palace are here we can actually
see Vivid evidence here of a destruction
question number one who did
it an archaeological detective story
puzzles together Clues to the mystery of
who wrote the Bible when and why and it
was very clear it was some kind of a
tiny scroll I immediately saw very clear
very distinct letters this is the
ancestor of the Hebrew
script and from out of the earth emerged
thousands of Idols that suggest God had
a
wife we just found this exceptional clay
figurine showing a fertility
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goddess powerful evidence sheds new
light on how one people alone among
ancient cultures finally turn their back
on idol worship to find their one
God this makes the god of ancient Israel
the universal god of the world that
resonates with people at least in Jewish
Christian and Muslim tradition to this
very
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day now science and scripture converge
to create a powerful new story of an
ancient
people God and the
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