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Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins

Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins

2021•1h 30m•8.2/10
DocumentaryHistory

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8.2/10(4)

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.

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Production

ARTE, Gedeon Programmes, Cinephil, Kan

Language

FR

Status

Released

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Cast

Anne Cardona

Self - Narrator (voice)

Israël Filkenstein

Self - Archeologist

Thomas Römer

Self - Biblist

Matthew J. Adams

Self - Archeologist

Christophe Nicolle

Self - Archeologist

Amotz Agnon

Self - Geophysicist

Yaniv Darvasi

Self - Geophysicist

Marie de l'Arche

Self - Nun

Margaret Cohen

Self - Archeologist

Naomi Porat

Self - Geologist

Tatiana Meltsen

Self - Draftswoman

Noam Mizrahi

Self - Researcher

Pnina Shor

Self - Qumran Scrolls Curator

Scott Stripling

Self - Archeologist

Alexander Fantalkin

Self - Archeologist

Zvi Lederman

Self - Archeologist

Eythan Levy

Self - Archeologist

Lidar Sapir-Hen

Self - Archaeozoologist

Lionel Marti

Self - Antiquities Curator

Ariane Thomas

Self - Archeologist

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