Kingdom of David - Saga of the Israelites (PBS Empires Series 20

Kingdom of David Typical Epsiode Notes Video Codec..........: XviD ISO MPEG-4 Video Bitrate........: 1571kbps Duration.............: 55:16.036 Resolution...........: 800*458 Framerate............: 23.976 Audio Codec..........: 0x2000 (Dolby AC3) AC3 Audio Bitrate........: 384 kbps CBR Audio Channels.......: 6 Filesize.............: 815,157,256 NO SUBTITLES http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0457671/ http://bayimg.com/hAJeiAADn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_David Kingdom of David was a part of the Empire Series of history documentaries for PBS. Public television stations produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) in joint venture with Red Hill Productions of Los Angeles, California. The documentary chronicles the story of how the Jewish people were able to preserve their culture from being overwhelmed by other more powerful worldly kingdoms. It begins with the Babylonian Exile where the Judean scribes, realizing that they faced the same fate as their ten northern brothers of the lost Kingdom of Israel, fought to preserve their identity and culture though the written word. From there it describes the struggles that the Jewish people faced against the materialism of the Seleucid Empire to the armed might makes right attitude of the Roman Empire. The story culminates with the triumph of individual Jewish sages such as Hillel, Yochanan ben Zakai and Akiva in preserving Jewish tradition that has survived to this day. The 220 minute video presentation is broken down into 4 parts which, in turn, are subdivided into scene selections. Product Details Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Rene Auberjonois, Jake Borowski, Keith David, Glenn Hoeffner Directors: Carl Byker, Mitch Wilson Writers: Carl Byker, David Mrazek, Isaac Mizrahi Producers: Carl Byker, Brian Donegan, David Davis Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1) Region: Region 1 Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1 Number of discs: 1 Rated: NR (Not Rated) Studio: PBS DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005 Run Time: 220 minutes 1 By the Rivers of Babylon 1.1 The Hebrew Bible 1.2 Abraham 1.3 Moses 1.4 The Ten Commandments 1.5 Canaan 1.6 The Story of King David 1.7 Book of Deuteronomy 1.8 Jeremiah and the Babylonian Exile 2 The Book and the Sword 2.1 Temple of Yahweh 2.2 Ezra and the Torah 2.3 The Book of Job 2.4 The Greeks 2.5 Ben Sira: Lover of Wisdom 2.6 Open to Interpretation 2.7 Antiochus, the Madman 2.8 The Maccabees 2.9 Hanukkah 3 The End of Days 3.1 Roman Rule 3.2 Civil War 3.3 The Essenes 3.4 Hillel 3.5 Jesus of Nazareth 3.6 The Zealots 3.7 The Siege of Jerusalem 3.8 Destruction of the Temple 4 The Gifts of the Jews 4.1 Masada 4.2 The Rabbis and the Synagogue 4.3 Seder 4.4 Bar Kockba Rebellion 4.5 Julius Severus and Exile 4.6 Christianity 4.7 Constantine 4.8 The Shepherd Akiva 4.9 The Talmud 4.10 Gifts

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Abrahambel (2011-09-01)

In my opinion this is very decent production of a historical religious story. I wonder what is you take on the scholarship behind it?.

 rambam1776 (2011-09-01)

Abe - I haven't had a chance to watch the whole thing yet, but so far it seems a decent generic approach. For newbies, it's a good introduction, and for scholars there is little new. However, when was the last time you saw any TV documentary by anyone on anything that was more than skin deep? Complex documentaries don't have enough appeal to be viable. That's why Michael Moore is so popular - he's stupid.

Abrahambel (2011-09-02)

Although your posts quality is out of question to me, my main concern really was just about the authenticity of work that draws heavily from historical document and other texts and sources. Additionally I was interested in your opinion about it. Otherwise you're completely right about the goal and propose of this work which is mainly to provide a whole idea about that subject to the novice; for any further deep or broad understanding, books are more appropriate I believe.
Thanks for your clarification.