Mysteries of the Bible - Season 4

1. Job: The Devil's Test

Aired: 9/12/1996

It is thousands of years ago that the Book of Job, a story of a decent man who suffers horrendous misfortunes, is written into the Hebrew bible.

2. Jacob's Ladder

Aired: 9/26/1996

Jacob's vision of a magnificent stairway to heaven has both fascinated and perplexed people of all religions for centuries. Explore four thousand year-old ruins with scholars and experts to learn more about this haunting account.

3. Biblical Angels

Aired: 11/14/1996

While the work of angels has long stirred popular imagination, the details of their holy purpose are clouded by wonder and debate. What do the Scriptures tell us about them?

4. The Last Supper

Aired: 11/21/1996

Few moments in the Bible hold more significance than Jesus' last supper in Jerusalem. Still, modern scholars continue to debate the specifics: Who attended the supper? What did they discuss? And what of the true role of Judas? Join the world's leading experts in an exploration of Jesus' final hours on earth.

5. Love and Sex in the Hebrew Bible

Aired: 12/12/1996

On the sixth day of Creation, God pronounced the sexual union between husband and wife "very good". The Hebrew Bible is rich in stories of love and marriage, as well as rape, prostitution, adultery, and polygamy.

6. Cain and Abel: A Murder Mystery

Aired: 3/8/1997

Their story is one of the most chilling in the Bible: a tale of cold-blooded murder between the world's first brothers. But despite the fact that Genesis records the identity of Abel's killer, the world's first murder remains in many ways a mystery.

7. The Story of Creation

Aired: 4/6/1997

An intriguing search for the fabled Garden of Eden and the forbidden Tree of Knowledge. Can the account of the Creation, as passed down in the book of Genesis, still be taken literally?

8. Paul the Apostle

Aired: 4/13/1997

With the exception of Jesus of Nazareth, Saint Paul is the single most important figure in the history of Christianity, transforming from its bitterest foe to its most ardent advocate.

9. King Solomon

Aired: 4/20/1997

According to the Hebrew Bible, Solomon was one of the mightiest kings to rule ancient Israel, gifted with unnatural powers. Explore new answers to some of the oldest questions that have perplexed historians and archaeologists about this mysterious ruler.

10. Mary of Nazareth

Aired: 5/11/1997

11. The Ten Commandments

Aired: 6/8/1997

Millenia past, in the searing heat of the Sinai Desert, a rag-tag band of survivors of history's first recorded slave revolt heard God's thunderous voice. The message delivered then has echoed throughout the ages: The Ten Commandments, the code that has come to be the very definition of moral behavior.