Season 5
7 episodes · Aug 10, 1997
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- S5E1
Messiahs
Aug 10, 199745mIn 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.
- S5E2
Old Testament Heroines
Nov 1, 199745mSarah, 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.
- S5E3
Judas: The Ultimate Betrayal
Dec 6, 199745mHis 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.
- S5E4
Maccabees: Revolution and Redemption
Dec 20, 199745mEvery 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.
- S5E5
John the Baptist
Mar 7, 199845mHe 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.
- S5E6
Magic and Miracles in the Old Testament
Jun 7, 199845mIn 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?
- S5E7
Samson and Delilah
Jun 13, 199845mExplores the theory that the Philistines kept Samson, not as a laborer, but as a sex slave in order to breed a race of giants.