Product Details
- Starring: Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 9786304340004
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- Format: Box set, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304340001
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- Label: A&E Home Video
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- Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
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- Number of Items: 7
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: A&E Home Video
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- Release Date: 1996-12-23
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- Studio: A&E Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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- Title: Mysteries of the Bible - Box Set 3: The Greatest Stories (1996)
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- UPC: 733961116304
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Product Description: This seven-volume set spans the length of biblical times and beyond, beginning with a segment on Cain and Abel and ending with the Jewish revolt against the Romans, a post-Bible event. Richard Kiley narrates each 45-minute segment and Jean Simmons reads accompanying passages from the Bible, the Apocrypha, and accounts by first century historian Josephus. Fleshing out the discussion is the usual parade of professors with a stunning array of specialties: New Testament, Hebrew and Judaic studies, architecture, archeology. A few authors and theologians also weigh in on what could be alternately called Unanswered Questions of the Bible, if not full-fledged mysteries. Each tape is divided into five "acts," efficiently organizing and summarizing the content. Although this boxed set (the second of the Mysteries of the Bible series) begins a little weakly, it builds in intensity, with three of the tapes (Herod the Great, The Bible's Greatest Secrets, and The Last Revolt) providing a primer for beginning Bible history buffs. --Kimberly Heinrichs
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