Mysteries of the Bible - Season 5

First aired: 8/10/1997 7 episodes

Episodes

1. Messiahs

Aired: 8/10/1997

In the ancient world, many were embraced as the Messiah. Why is a simple peasant from Galilee, who never publicly claims to be the Messiah, the one man much of the world reveres as such for two thousand years.

2. Old Testament Heroines

Aired: 11/1/1997

Sarah, the great matriarch...Esther, the queen...Deborah, the military commander...Ruth, the despised foreigner...Miriam, the prophetess. For countless generations, women the world over have patterned their lives after these heroines of the Hebrew Bible, looking to them for inspiration and examples of virtue.

3. Judas: The Ultimate Betrayal

Aired: 12/6/1997

His name is so synonymous with evil that according to German law it cannot be given to a new born child. Judas Iscariot, a Satan incarnate so depraved that he kissed "The Son of God" after betraying him for a measly thirty pieces of silver.

4. Maccabees: Revolution and Redemption

Aired: 12/20/1997

Every December in households all over the world people of the Jewish faith gather to celebrate the joyous holiday of Chanukah. Yet few realize that the foundations of this celebration are rooted in bloody violence.

5. John the Baptist

Aired: 3/7/1998

He was called John the Baptist and he preached in the wilderness in the time of Jesus. All four gospels of the New Testament acknowledge the importance of John the Baptist's life.

6. Magic and Miracles in the Old Testament

Aired: 6/7/1998

In book after book of the Hebrew Bible, it is through miracles that God makes himself known to His chosen people. Are the miracles of the Bible merely stories or did they actually occur, and can they be explained scientifically? Why did the time of miracles draw to a close... or did it?

7. Samson and Delilah

Aired: 6/13/1998

Explores the theory that the Philistines kept Samson, not as a laborer, but as a sex slave in order to breed a race of giants.