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The Exodus Decoded (History Channel) 
Actors : James Cameron
Director : Simcha Jacobovici
Studio : A&E Home Video
by A&E Home Video
Brand : A&E
Release Date : 2006-10-31
Publisher : A&E Home Video
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 0733961764796
UPC : 733961767315
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 24 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $14.41
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Product Description |
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After six years of unprecedented research host Simcha Jacobovici and a team of renowned archeologists Egyptologists geologists and theologians shed revelatory new light on the Exodus and the era's ruling Egyptian Dynasty. Their new theory pushes events hundreds of years earlier than previously thought allowing age-old stories to sparkle with new perspectives and startling historical import. Using elaborate state-of-the-art CGI THE EXODUS DECODED offers a stunning virtual account of stories like the birth of Moses the ten plagues and the parting of the Red Sea revealing once and for all the difference between acts of Nature and the hand of God. Also included is a bonus disc that examines two pivotal figures of the Exodus--Moses and Ramses the Great--as well as the Ark of the Covenant.System Requirements:Running Time: 275 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 733961764796 Manufacturer No: AH76731 |
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Americancivilwar.com |
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Complex yet utterly compelling, The Exodus Decoded is presented by movie director James Cameron (Titanic) but is the passion of Jewish-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici. Jacobovici has extensively researched evidence that the Biblical account of the Exodus was real, and concludes that it actually took place in 1500 BCE (during the reign of pharaoh Ahmos I), historically known as the Hyksos Expulsion. The Hyksos people were a Semitic race about whom little is known. But their departure from Egypt, following a long enslavement, along with early writings and other physical evidence, make a strong case that they are the Hebrews of lore. Jacobovici suggests the Exodus is also connected to the catastrophic eruption of the Santorini volcano, which ended the Minoan civilization and triggered a limnic eruption (a surge of carbon dioxide) in the Nile river delta. The latter would have killed the river's fish but likely chased out all the frogs, a phenomenon that could have been considered one of the famous plagues in the Exodus story. (Jacobovici makes a case for the other so-called plagues also being a consequence of the eruption.) Whatever one's opinion of The Exodus Decoded as a historical documentary, it is engrossing viewing, shot in some truly exotic locations, often under the highly suspicious eye of Egyptian authorities. Several moments--such as the revelation of a Hyksos slave's rock carving, pleading with God to be rescued--are astonishing. --Tom Keogh |
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The Exodus Decoded (History Channel) |
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The service was fast and the program is very interesting. If you think you know when the exodus occured, than this film will have you asking questions,and that is what a good educational program does. |
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Exodus Decoded Makes Sense, Period |
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Great work, extremely entertaining and interesting. All of the arguments posed by Jocobovici's critics are questionable and do not eliminate his possible explanations. They bring their favored dates and events as facts, but it is dangerous to be assertive and exact when talking about history: they weren't there to verify those dates or events; they just rely on other scholar interpretations. The fact is that Jacobovici's explanations bring together observations from separate disciplines (which don't talk to each other), and a surprising big picture emerges which makes a lot of sense. |
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AWFULLY DREADFUL |
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I am not going to waste much time writing this since I wasted so much time actually watching this. You can tell that these "so-called facts" are nothing more than rubbish. They did a great job trying to sell it, but anyone who knows the bible and has common sense can see that not much research was put into this. I found myself shaking my head constantly in disagreement with everything that was being said. I could tell a lot of this stuff was ridiculously made up (and I am not a scientist). Also, being a Christian has nothing to do with this negative review. There was simply no research, a lot of bending over backwards to make things fit. In reality, watching this thing kind of insulted my own intelligence. If you want something that is worthwhile... something that is accurate read the Bible or something else that someone on here recommends. But, this is one thing I do not recommend and think that the History Channel should be ashamed to have ever produced. Just awfully dreadful |
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Baggage Train from Egypt |
I was pleasantly surprised by this documentary, since what I'd read about it didn't have anything but the really stupid claim -- that the death of Pharaoh connected with the eruption of Thera -- which has been regurgitated over recent years. There's no connection between Thera and Exodus, just as there's no connection between a 2nd millennium eruption and the end of Minoan civilization. While I share the view that unusual natural events made the Exodus possible, Thera was not it; neither is there anything to the "Mt Sinai a Volcano" school of thought.
Jacobivici and company present the case well. The graphical manipulation of various artifacts, IOW the special effects, I found to be eye-catching and helpful. I found the detective work which led to plausible identifications of the Sea of Passage and Mt Sinai compelling. But the supposed connection between the Thera eruption and the so-called site of Avaris (it isn't Avaris) had already been broken by the time of the broadcast when the pumice stone was found to be from a different volcano (and a volcano which erupted 10s of 1000s of years ago, to boot). Even the expert shown in a clip stated that he'd found forty ash grains he claimed were from Thera -- that's a mighty small number for a super-eruption. Of course, I had the same reaction when I learned that the average layer of (supposedly) Theran ash in Crete was 5 mm.
Worst of all was the blatantly false statement -- no doubt made due to overreliance on Charles Pellegrino -- that the supposed Theran super-eruption wiped out Minoan civilization. That's been rejected for at least forty years, and during the last ten or fifteen years the drive to push the supposed super-eruption into the middle of the 17th c BC made the disconnect worse, because instead of 80 or so years for the civilization to die, it's now 150 or more. To put that in perspective, it's as if, in 1859, Mt St Helens had erupted with three orders of magnitude more energy than it did in 1980, but US society managed to survive and thrive, only to vanish next year as a result of that eruption.
Americancivilwar reader reviewer ScienceMinded was exactly correct -- Velikovsky should have been credited, since the naos of el-Arish and the Papyrus Ipuwer are linchpins for the late Dr's "Ages In Chaos". Had Jacobovici et al been familiar with that work, they'd have noted that the name of the site given in the inscription on the naos synchs with the name of the place given in the Old Testament, thus strengthening their case. In 1945, when Velikovsky identified the Papyrus Ipuwer as an Egyptian account of the ten plagues of the Exodus, the general view of its date was Old Kingdom, with some viewing it as Middle Kingdom in date; now Jacobivici states that it is generally seen as a 1st Intermediate Period document, which exactly agrees with Velikovsky.
I liked the program's segment on the monuments from Schliemann's dig at Mycenae. His novel interpretation of the images on those stones were interesting. I didn't think he was right, not at all, and thought his treatment of that particular corner of his theory was sketchy at best. Bietak excavated Tell el-Dab'a in Egypt and found Minoan frescoes. Seagoing trade has been going on for thousands of years in the eastern Mediterranean (at least!), even into prehistoric times (the obsidian trade reached Aegean Islands and more).
It is generally thought that Linear A was invented (or adapted?) by the Minoans, and it is nearly universally agreed that Linear A does not contain Greek -- unlike Linear B, which does, and probably was based on Linear A. If Linear A conceals a Semitic language -- and there's only one scholar of whom I'm aware who thinks it does -- then Jacobovici's idea about the origin of these monuments would be strengthened. But he doesn't develop this idea, merely -- and sensationally -- equates a cryptic gold artifact with the ever-popular Ark of the Covenant. There's even a clip of Indy opening the crypt and finding the Ark.
Jacobivici's claim that the Egyptian government doesn't like anyone trying to investigate the Exodus and kept an eye on the documentary group's activities rang true. Anyone who calls that claim evidence of some kind of conspiracy theory is just ignorant. Zahi Hawass has pushed his cuckoo view that ancient Egypt was slavery-free, and anyone who digs in Egypt has to toe that ridiculous party line. In his own book, Kent Weeks, rediscoverer of KV-5, describes a problem his team had with the Egyptian government's destructive mishandling of aerial photos taken by the team in order to map the Valley of the Kings, a problem they had to circumvent by trickery in order to effectively do their job -- and the Egyptian antiquities authorities *like* the Theban Mapping Project. Gantenbrink got banned from the Giza plateau simply for announcing his fairly modest finds in the Great Pyramid. Some people seem to forget that nominally democratic Egypt is a police state.
I didn't notice anything that would make it objectionable for those few parents who still care what their children watch. Jacobovici even closes the show by suggesting, despite the apparent natural causes of the plagues and Pharaoh's death, that God made it happen in order to free his Chosen People. As long as the chronology used in the show isn't taken seriously -- Ahmose was most definitely *not* the Pharaoh of the Exodus -- I think you'll enjoy this disk. I do strongly suggest reading Immanuel Velikovsky's "Ages In Chaos" to get the chronology straight. |
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Eye Opening!!! |
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Very good Documentery about the Exodus out of Egypt and very plusable what could have really happened. |
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