Questa sera sarà trasmesso sulla rete americana PBS il documentario “Bible’s Buried Secrets”. Ne parla un articolo:

1. Four years in the making, this sprawling, dense documentary - filmed in Israel, Egypt, Syria and the US - compares what is actually known by archaeologists about the ancient world to some of the Bible's most dramatic stories. Perhaps not surprisingly to some, the archaeological facts outlined in "The Bible's Buried Secrets" fly in the face of some of the strongest assertions of the Bible.
   

Luoghi comuni sfatati da tempo:

1. Among the findings that are likely to produce angry reactions from literal believers in the Bible:
   

2. * Though the story of the Hebrew nation's exodus from Egypt under the leadership of Moses is the most oft-mentioned incident in the Old Testament (according to the film), no real evidence of the event has ever been found.
   

3. * Archaeological evidence overwhelmingly supports a scenario in direct opposition to the biblical account of Joshua, the story in which the forerunners of the Jews - the Israelites - became established in Canaan only after they waged a triumphant campaign of conquest over key cities in the region (most famously Jericho) under Joshua's leadership.
   

Gli israeliti non conquistarono Canaan. Al contrario: emersero all’interno del collasso delle città stato:

1. Instead, says one of the archaeologists interviewed in the film, Israel Finkelstein, "In the text you have the story of the Israelites coming from outside, and then besieging the Canaanite cities, destroying them and then becoming a nation in the land of Canaan. Whereas archaeology tells us something which is the opposite. According to archaeology, the rise of early Israel is an outcome of the collapse of Canaanite society, not the reason for that collapse."
   

Ancora, luoghi comuni sul monoteismo:

1. The principle of monotheism (the worship of a single deity), established first by the Jews and later to form the foundation for both Christianity and Islam, took much longer to take root than most people assume. In fact, the archaeological discovery of troves of household idols in ancient Canaanite towns and cities proves that the Israelites practiced polytheism long after they had been thought to have discarded the practice.
   

Speriamo che il documentario sia presto disponibile perché la PBS è un canale che non riesco a vedere col satellite. L’hanno visto in anteprima quelli della BAR e qui c’è già una recensione.

UPDATE: mi informa Marco Sanna che l’intero documentario sarà disponibile gratuitamente qui a partire da domani.

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There’s an article on the upcoming “Bible’s Buried Secrets” documentary here, and an advance review of the film can be read here.

UPDATE: it will be available for free tomorrow. [HT: Marco Sanna]