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The documentary made extensive use of computer animation. It ran for two hours and was first aired in Canada on April 16, (Easter Day) 2006.


EGYPTIAN ARCHAOLOGICAL EVIDENCE


  • The Hyksos Expulsion, contemporaneous Egyptian records of the departure of the mysterious Semitic Hyksos people. Jacobovich suggests that the Hyksos and the Hebrews were one and the same, a thesis he supports with Egyptian-style signet rings uncovered in the Hyksos capital of Avaris that read "Yakob," the Hebrew name of the Biblical patriach Jacob )


  • The 2A Ahmose stele, a stone tablet unearthed in Karnak by Henri Chevalier in 1947, the only Egyptian tablet ever found which mentions "GOD" in the singular. In it, "God" incurs some of the same plagues described in the Biblical account(i.e. darkness, a great storm). The Exodus Decoded official website quotes the stele, "How much greater is this the impressive manifestation of the great god, than the plans of the gods!"


  • Ahmose. Jacobovitch suggests that the name Pharoah at the time of the Exodus may have been a .


  • 6A Serabit el Khadim turquoise mine, a slave labour camp in the Sinai with a Semitic aphabetic inscription that reads "O El , save me from these mines."



MYCENAEAN ARCHAOLOGICAL EVIDENCE


  • Gravestones. Three of the stones marking the wealthy tombs of Grave Circle A in Mycenae appear to depict the parting of the Sea of Reeds. A man on a chariot (Ahmose?) is shown in pursuit of a man on foot (Moses?) who is holding what archaeologists have commonly referred to as a spear but which Jacobovitch suggests is Moses' miraculous staff. Above and below the scene are rows of swirls which, in the Exodus interpretation, represent water.


  • A Gold ornament excavated from one of the tombs in the Grave Circle seemingly shows the Ark Of The Covenant against a background of the tabernacle alter. Jacobovich suggests that members of the Tribe Of Dan may have emigrated to Mycenae after the Exodus. This, the documentary suggests, is why Homer refers to the buried at Mycenae as "Dani."



SCIENTIFIC CONJECTURE


Jacobovitch suggests that the Biblical Exodus took place during the eruption of Santorini, even though, conventionally, Volcanologists date the eruption to 1600 BCE, one hundred years too early. Jacobovitch disputes the date with archaeological evidence and then goes to explain how each of the Mosaic plagues, and even the parting of the Sea of Reeds, could be explained by Earthquakes , Faulting and a Limnic Disaster all caused by Santorini.


THEOLOGY


The documentary claims that historians who do not believe in God refuse to see the clear evidence that the Exodus happened and dismiss it as a fairy tale, and that some believers also reject scientific explanations. Jacobovich postulates that God can control nature, and that there should be a scientific explaination for all miracles in the Bible. The ending voice-over is "Was the Exodus just a natural event or was it the hand of God? We'll leave that for the viewer to decide."


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