Reeve in our class just alerted me to the following PBS documentary called The Bible’s buried Secrets, which will show this Tuesday night, Nov 18, at 8pm:

The Bible’s Buried Secrets is an archeological journey into the Hebrew Bible, more commonly known as the Old Testament. It builds on centuries of biblical scholarship and excavation to tackle some of the biggest questions in biblical studies: Where did the ancient Israelites come from? How and when did their religion transform into modern Judaism? Who wrote the Bible, when, and why? How did the ancient Israelites, who, like virtually all ancient peoples, worshiped many gods, come to believe in a single God?

The answers to these questions emerge as we look both at the archeological evidence and at the biblical text itself—the powerful accounts describing Abraham and his journey to the Promised Land; Moses and the Exodus; David’s kingdom and Solomon’s Temple; and the destruction of that temple and Jerusalem followed by the Exile of Jews to Babylon.