How is “The Bibles Buried Secrets” different from other films about biblical archeology?
Apsell: As with all our programs, we secured access to the most authoritative experts to make this film. Our aim was to present the most definitive synthesis of the latest thinking in biblical archeology and scholarship, and to forge this scholarship into a cohesive account of how an ancient people, the Israelites, came to believe in one God—the foundation for the universal God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Our program is different from others because it was not our goal to use archeology to attempt to prove or disprove the Bible. It was, rather, our intention to go beyond the question of fact or fiction to explore why the biblical narrative may have been written in the first place and what its deeper meaning may have been to the ancient Israelites whose history it relates. Q: So NOVA is not out to disprove the Bible? Apsell: Not at all. NOVA is certainly not out to disprove the Bible or to denigrate anyone’s religious convictions. Our approach is simply to present the results o
