Past Programs
Sacred Texts - 2007
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The Word of God Times Three: Part 3 Read Transcript
09/09/2007
How do Muslims understand the revelation of God to Muhammad? The final in a series looking at Jewish, Christian and Muslim beliefs concerning the Word of God and how it was transmitted.
The Word of God Times Three: Part 2 Read Transcript
02/09/2007
Frank Peters, from New York University, explains the Christian understanding of Revelation, and how they came to possess a different Old Testament to the Jews.
The Word of God Times Three: Part 1 Read Transcript
26/08/2007
Frank Peters at New York University begins this three part series, looking at how revelation and transmission is understood in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.
Torah in Space Read Transcript
29/07/2007
The first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, on the U.S. space shuttle Columbia took up a little Torah Scroll that his Physics professor Joachim Joseph received when he had a secret Bar Mitzvah as a boy in the Nazi concentration camp, Bergen Belsen.
The Buddhist Scrolls, Pt 2 Read Transcript
24/06/2007
Out of the turmoil of Afghanistan, several sensational collections of early Buddhist manuscripts have come to the West in the last ten years. They are the oldest original manuscripts of Buddhism still existing.
The Buddhist Scrolls, Pt 1 Read Transcript
17/06/2007
Out of the turmoil of Afghanistan, several sensational collections of early Buddhist manuscripts have come to the West in the last ten years. They are the oldest original manuscripts of Buddhism still existing.
The Jesus Tomb Pt 3 Read Transcript
29/04/2007
Biblical scholar, Dr Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill casts doubt on the findings and conclusions put forth by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino in their book, The Jesus Family Tomb.
The Jesus Tomb Pt 2 Read Transcript
22/04/2007
Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino believe they've found the family tomb of Jesus. The tomb, originally found in 1985, was deemed undistinctive but a recent reconsideration challenges the old view. Jacobovici has re-opened the debate, and next week we hear from a critic.
The Jesus Tomb Pt 1 Read Transcript
15/04/2007
Would the discovery of Jesus' family tomb change Christianity? Simcha Jacobovici thinks he's found the burial cave of Jesus, but why have archaeologists kept silent about what they've known for decades?
