The Bible’s Buried Secrets is a two-hour NOVA documentary that is scheduled to air on PBS Tuesday. Glassman, who is the show’s writer, producer and director, describes it as an archaeological detective story that explores how the ancient Israelites were transformed from being a people who worshipped many gods into a people who believed in a single God.
“The traditional story is that Moses authored the first five books of the Bible, but the consensus of most scholars is that it was the work of many hands,” says Glassman.
The film largely accepts the hypothesis of scholars who say those five books represent texts that were written over a period of several hundred years, which were compiled and edited into a form familiar to people today in 536 B.C. after the Jews went into exile in Babylon....
Dr. Alan Cairns | 4/27/2009
