Hello, it's Zahava. As some of you shall recall, at the beginning of the year we talked about Shlomo and the splendor of the kingdom before they started on a downward spiral to sin and worshipping avoda zara.
About a half hour ago, I was flipping through tv channels when i stopped at WKNO/PBS. Sometimes they have interesting documentaries, and tonight, I got lucky. They are doing a whole documentary on archeologists digging and using radiology to prove how certain sites are old enough to have been the sites of Shlomos kingdom. Then they showed other sites in different parts of Israel with the same structure- a structure described in navi, and in the same places. They proved how these places are the same places in the navi, and indeed these things have happened.
A moment ago they spoke of how they found ruins and reconstructed an animated version of Jersusalem as Assyria destroyed and exiled Samaria- Shomron.
Then they talked about how they found- and showed us people digging up mini idols- that although the Jews were serving Hashem they also worshipped idols.
The coolest part is that they are, as I type, talking about exactly what we are doing in class right now! What we started on Monday! They talked about how Josiah wanted to stop the people from idol worshipping and had the Beit Hamikdash cleaned. There he found a scroll and begain to weep because he realized the people had been breaking the rules. Then they talked about how Assyria was replaced by a new superpower, Babylonia, who came in and exiled the Jews, while killing the kings family in front of him, and then blinding him. They've really summarized what we did in the beginning of the year and have gone through the exile of the Jews. It's very interesting because they are showing us sights that they drew plans for and reconstructed digitally, and then compare it to places described in Tanach, which they confirm is all true.
Now they are talking about the theme of exile and return. Which is something we have been focusing on as well.
Now some of this might not all be completely accurate, as it is not a Jewish production but a christian one. but for the most part, this has been very interesting. I will post the link to a transcript of the documentary, as well as a link that will allow anyone who is interested to watch it. It is actually really cool, especially if you like connecting different events from different classes etc. I HIGHLY suggest watching this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Well i want to finish watching and focusing on this so I hope the rest of you watch it!
About a half hour ago, I was flipping through tv channels when i stopped at WKNO/PBS. Sometimes they have interesting documentaries, and tonight, I got lucky. They are doing a whole documentary on archeologists digging and using radiology to prove how certain sites are old enough to have been the sites of Shlomos kingdom. Then they showed other sites in different parts of Israel with the same structure- a structure described in navi, and in the same places. They proved how these places are the same places in the navi, and indeed these things have happened.
A moment ago they spoke of how they found ruins and reconstructed an animated version of Jersusalem as Assyria destroyed and exiled Samaria- Shomron.
Then they talked about how they found- and showed us people digging up mini idols- that although the Jews were serving Hashem they also worshipped idols.
The coolest part is that they are, as I type, talking about exactly what we are doing in class right now! What we started on Monday! They talked about how Josiah wanted to stop the people from idol worshipping and had the Beit Hamikdash cleaned. There he found a scroll and begain to weep because he realized the people had been breaking the rules. Then they talked about how Assyria was replaced by a new superpower, Babylonia, who came in and exiled the Jews, while killing the kings family in front of him, and then blinding him. They've really summarized what we did in the beginning of the year and have gone through the exile of the Jews. It's very interesting because they are showing us sights that they drew plans for and reconstructed digitally, and then compare it to places described in Tanach, which they confirm is all true.
Now they are talking about the theme of exile and return. Which is something we have been focusing on as well.
Now some of this might not all be completely accurate, as it is not a Jewish production but a christian one. but for the most part, this has been very interesting. I will post the link to a transcript of the documentary, as well as a link that will allow anyone who is interested to watch it. It is actually really cool, especially if you like connecting different events from different classes etc. I HIGHLY suggest watching this.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/
Well i want to finish watching and focusing on this so I hope the rest of you watch it!
http://www.ancient-hebrew.org/28_chart.html at some points in the documentary they show ancient scrolls with some really old hebrew. the link just helps you see the transition of hebrew letters.
ReplyDeletezahava-i briefly looked some at some of the transcript and this show seems sadly misinformed. they try to mix all these christian references into it, and say a number of things that dont seems very likely, i.e. they find sources that suggest that G-d had a wife, and other paganistic sorts of things. these may be sources from the jews of the time who were idol worshippers, but it seems kind of far fetched.
ReplyDeletelet me rephrase the beggining there-not sadly misinformed, because they are historians. just confused, perhaps.or something similar.
ReplyDeletei wrote that it wasnt completely accurate. if you watch it though, the parts about navi which we've learned are accurate, bc you cant put a christian spin on it as it was before christianity. which it was. furthermore, when we learned about the jews doing idol worshipping we didnt learn what type but in the film they find idols in judea and samaria of the goddess of fertility etc.. dont read the script, watch it or just ignore it :)
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