08-26-2005, 06:01 PM
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Media watch: The Naked Archeologist
This seems to be a Canadian product.
Filmmaker Jacobovici offers biblical archeology with a twist
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. . . the award-winning Toronto filmmaker has turned his talents to biblical archeology. He has churned out a 26-part series, The Naked Archaeologist, the first episode of which will be aired on Vision TV on Sept. 5 at 9:30 p.m.
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“I want to serve it up naked, stripped of the bullshit,� he said in a burst of Jacobovician rhetoric. “I bring a kind of simplicity, an outsider’s perspective, the skills of an investigative journalist, to it.�
He gravitated to the subject of archeology after making The Quest for the Lost Tribes in 1996, a film that explored an intriguing dimension of Jewish history.
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Currently, Jacobovici is editing and polishing his next documentary, The Exodus Decoded, which will be broadcast on the Discovery Channel come November and privately screened around the same time.
There is not a single shred of archeological evidence to support the thesis that the events in Exodus occurred, he allowed.
But in his forthcoming 90-minute film, a mix of The Matrix and The Da Vinci Code, he excavates proof that Exodus is not a figment of the imagination.
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Jacobivi is also responsible for a documentary on the ossuary, "James the Brother of Jesus"
http://www.visiontv.ca/Programs/documentaries_naked_arch.html]Vision TV write-up
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Fast, funny and irreverent (think the Ali G. meets Indiana Jones), Jacobovici asks the questions we all want to know the answers to: Why is it so bad to be called a Philistine? Was Jezebel really that sexy? What do you do when you find a 2,000-year-old palace under your house? And where do you stop for a good falafel when you're on your way to find the real Mount Sinai?
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