I watched History Channel’s new Bible Secrets
Revealed, otherwise known as “My Facebook Feed: the TV Series.”
For fear of damning with faint praise, it certainly was more scholarly than you
would expect from the network that brought you Ancient Aliens and Cajun Pawn
Stars. It features a number of top-notch scholars (and Reza Aslan), and
despite the baritone narrator’s attempt to make it sensational (“Could the
Bible hide secrets of blah blah blah…?”), the experts kept things quite
sensible.
But despite being basically factually, the show was all over the
place. It goes from David and Goliath to the Gospels and then makes a wild,
inexplicable turn to the Reformation, Thomas Jefferson, and the Book of Mormon.
It seemed like something a really bright freshman might have turned in, citing
lots of good sources, but without a clear thesis or structure. B-
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