Past Programs
Judaism - 2003
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The Exodus Miracles - Fact or Fiction?
08/10/2003
Did the Red Sea really part before the Israelites? Why didn't the fire consume the Burning Bush? What was the Manna in the Wilderness? Distinguished British scientist, Colin Humphreys, examines the evidence and provides a remarkable account of "what really happened".
The Kabbalah and the Enlightenment
23/07/2003
Conventional wisdom had it that science came in when religion and magic moved out. But scholar of the Enlightenment, Alison Coudert, has uncovered the considerable influence of the Jewish mystical ideas of the Kabbalah on the Enlightenment's leading lights, Leibniz and Locke.
The Lost Tribes of Israel - Found
04/06/2003
Vanquished and dispersed by the Assyrians in the 8th Century BC, the Lost Tribes of Israel have "shown up" around the world ever since. Maoris, Africans, Native Americans, Japanese and the British - are just some of the groups that have claimed to be the Lost Tribes of Israel.
Cabal - Cabbala
23/04/2003
The word 'cabal' refers to a group of people with sinister motives who are working in secret to exert their power over unsuspecting people. The term actually comes from Kabbalah (spelled Cabbala by Christians), the Jewish mystical tradition. How one gave rise to the other is the tale that historian Gordon Wiener unravels on this week's Ark.
The Kabbalah and the Enlightenment
12/03/2003
Conventional wisdom had it that science came in when religion and magic moved out. But scholar of the Enlightenment, Alison Coudert, has uncovered the considerable influence of the Jewish mystical ideas of the Kabbalah on the Enlightenment's leading lights, Leibniz and Locke.
