Documentary: Who Wrote the Bible?

This is a nearly two-hour documentary from Channel Four in England, hosted by Dr. Robert Beckford, who is looking for good answers to what sounds like a simple question: Who wrote the Bible?

From the Channel Four site:

It's a question that has preoccupied biblical scholars for several generations but Beckford, who is director of the Centre for Black Theology at the University of Birmingham, forsakes the library and takes to the road in a journey from Jerusalem to Rome and on to the USA (with a stopover in Walthamstow). On the way, he talks to American pilgrims shouldering crosses on the streets of Jerusalem, to the head of the Pope's Bible Institute, to a former criminal and boxing promoter in East London, and many more. Beckford must be the only theologian in the UK who has his own Saturday night radio show, so he looks perfectly at home in the open top, electric blue fin-tail car he drives on the US leg of his quest.

Read the whole blurb about the show here.





Stolen from Throw Away Your TV, but available at Google video.

This is a good video -- it's honest and all of the information is easily researched and verified. As might be expected, evangelicals did not like the show too much. Still, as someone who enjoys Spiral Dynamics, it's easy to see some of the memetic issues at play in the world's monotheistic religions.

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