7 episodes

Mysteries of the Bible - Season 5

First aired Aug 10, 1997Season 5

Browse all 7 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

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GenerationofSwine

10.0

I am one of those freaks that get super excited whenever things like this come on the TV. Even as a little kid I loved documentaries. This one is up there with Connections and Russia Land of the Tsars as one of my all time favorites. It's like they sat Jean Simmons down and told her..."we want you to read passages from the Bible...but they are mostly Old Testament, so read them as spooky as you can." And she is scary. The best narrative voice, even better than the guy that does Haunted History. It's a Biblical version of In Search Of... so it you liked that you will love Mysteries of the Bible. And it does it fair. It doesn't assume anything save for that it is dealing with Holy Writ and as such shows it the proper respect. So don't worry, if you are so anti-religious that you will blindly ignore it, you can still watch the show without being offended... ...and if you are the blindly religious type that to have everything literal...well...you'll hate it but at least you'll have to admit that it handled it respectfully. It balances history and religion very well and never draws conclusions.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Messiahs

NR
Aug 10, 199745 min

In the ancient world, many were embraced as the Messiah. Why is a simple peasant from Galilee, who never publicly claims to be the Messiah, the one man much of the world reveres as such for two thousand years.

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Episode 2

Old Testament Heroines

NR
Nov 1, 199745 min

Sarah, the great matriarch...Esther, the queen...Deborah, the military commander...Ruth, the despised foreigner...Miriam, the prophetess. For countless generations, women the world over have patterned their lives after these heroines of the Hebrew Bible, looking to them for inspiration and examples of virtue.

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Episode 3

Judas: The Ultimate Betrayal

NR
Dec 6, 199745 min

His name is so synonymous with evil that according to German law it cannot be given to a new born child. Judas Iscariot, a Satan incarnate so depraved that he kissed "The Son of God" after betraying him for a measly thirty pieces of silver.

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Episode 4

Maccabees: Revolution and Redemption

NR
Dec 20, 199745 min

Every December in households all over the world people of the Jewish faith gather to celebrate the joyous holiday of Chanukah. Yet few realize that the foundations of this celebration are rooted in bloody violence.

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Episode 5

John the Baptist

NR
Mar 7, 199845 min

He was called John the Baptist and he preached in the wilderness in the time of Jesus. All four gospels of the New Testament acknowledge the importance of John the Baptist's life.

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Episode 6

Magic and Miracles in the Old Testament

NR
Jun 7, 199845 min

In book after book of the Hebrew Bible, it is through miracles that God makes himself known to His chosen people. Are the miracles of the Bible merely stories or did they actually occur, and can they be explained scientifically? Why did the time of miracles draw to a close... or did it?

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Episode 7

Samson and Delilah

NR
Jun 13, 199845 min

Explores the theory that the Philistines kept Samson, not as a laborer, but as a sex slave in order to breed a race of giants.