Mysteries of the Bible

Season 5

7 episodes · Aug 10, 1997

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  • S5E1

    Messiahs

    Aug 10, 199745m

    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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  • S5E2

    Old Testament Heroines

    Nov 1, 199745m

    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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  • S5E3

    Judas: The Ultimate Betrayal

    Dec 6, 199745m

    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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  • S5E4

    Maccabees: Revolution and Redemption

    Dec 20, 199745m

    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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  • S5E5

    John the Baptist

    Mar 7, 199845m

    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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  • S5E6

    Magic and Miracles in the Old Testament

    Jun 7, 199845m

    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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  • S5E7

    Samson and Delilah

    Jun 13, 199845m

    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.

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