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| The Exodus Decoded (History Channel) | 
 enlarge | Director: Simcha Jacobovici
Actors: Uzi Avner, Manfred Bietak, John Bimson, James Cameron, Philip Davies
Studio: A&E Home Video
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 13465
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 92
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: AAE-76731
UPC: 733961767315
EAN: 0733961764796
ASIN: B000HOJR8A
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: October 31, 2006
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Product Description
The Exodus Decoded is a powerful feature-length documentary on a subject that has fascinated humankind for centuries--the Exodus. The visual language of the special breaks new ground for a documentary as it takes the viewer into a "Matrix-like" journey--a unique digital organic experience--to investigate the Biblical story of the Exodus. Executive Produced by James Cameron (who appears on camera) and Simcha Jacobovici (who also hosts) the viewer follows Jacobovici to Egypt Greece and Israel on an investigative archaeological journey that pieces together a puzzle of tantalizing clues. Probing questions of established archaeologists reveal mistakes and misunderstandings that drove many to conclusions that Jacobovici unravels before our very eyes.System Requirements:Run Time: 92 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 733961767315 Manufacturer No: AAE-76731
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Complex yet utterly compelling, The Exodus Decoded is presented by movie director James Cameron (Titanic) but is the passion of Jewish-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici. Jacobovici has extensively researched evidence that the Biblical account of the Exodus was real, and concludes that it actually took place in 1500 BCE (during the reign of pharaoh Ahmos I), historically known as the Hyksos Expulsion. The Hyksos people were a Semitic race about whom little is known. But their departure from Egypt, following a long enslavement, along with early writings and other physical evidence, make a strong case that they are the Hebrews of lore. Jacobovici suggests the Exodus is also connected to the catastrophic eruption of the Santorini volcano, which ended the Minoan civilization and triggered a limnic eruption (a surge of carbon dioxide) in the Nile river delta. The latter would have killed the river's fish but likely chased out all the frogs, a phenomenon that could have been considered one of the famous plagues in the Exodus story. (Jacobovici makes a case for the other so-called plagues also being a consequence of the eruption.) Whatever one's opinion of The Exodus Decoded as a historical documentary, it is engrossing viewing, shot in some truly exotic locations, often under the highly suspicious eye of Egyptian authorities. Several moments--such as the revelation of a Hyksos slave's rock carving, pleading with God to be rescued--are astonishing. --Tom Keogh
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 Exodus Decoded November 19, 2008
Excellent. As a Conservative Evangelical Christian I would take issue over his interpretation of the plagues but from an historical point of view proving that Moses and the Biblical Exodus are historical fact the video 'hit the spot'.
EXODUS September 30, 2008
The show was very interesting. If you enjoy history and believe in the Bible it is must see viewing.
Eh. Interesting, fun to watch, thin on facts and scientific process, could be better July 25, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Exodus Decoded is titled far more assertively than it delivers - it's more "Exodus sort of looked at in a different way than most others have done while still leaving a lot of questions and some loopholes in process."
The production values are certainly of the highest quality here - the computer graphics are whizbang, look very cool, and actually do contribute to the arguments and narrative that Jacobovici is offering.
Unfortunately, the level of scientific facts do not succeed in achieving the same heights of excellence as the whizbang graphics.
I'm not as willing as some other reviewers to call this entirely nonsense, but I'm also not as willing as some others to just accept everything here as absolute fact and go running around proclaiming "See! The Bible is historically perfectly true!"
The truth is, we really don't know when (or even if) the Exodus happened, and if it did happen, don't really know how. Other than the account in the Bible, there isn't much secondary proof out there of any of the biblical claims. And trying to piece together anything that far back into history is somewhat of a fool's errand.
Given that we probably will never really know the details, I think Jacobovici offers some compelling stuff to think about, but not a lot to take super duper seriously, or consider as definitely "solved".
Watch this, but watch it with a critical eye and have your hermeneutic of suspicion set on 11 and ready to use at a moment's notice. Who knows? The Exodus could very well have happened in the mid-1400s BCE, as he proposes; the stele could show bas reliefs of the crossing of the Reed See; Sinai could be where he says it is; and so on.
Perhaps the best way to sum this up is to say that is worth watching, so long as you remember that everything Jacobovici says should be preceded with "maybe" or "possibly" or could end with "but I might be wrong".
Unfortunately, Jacobovici rarely offers that kind of humility and academic honesty in this documentary, and offers his statements as finished, completely researched and proven facts.
And that's why I give it three stars, and not five. If he'd said "Here's some cool stuff I'm thinking about, and why - let me show you, and see what you think", I'd like this a lot more. But when people say, especially about history, "Here's what happened", I grow weary and wary.
I am buying a copy to use in my church adult education, but I will be sure to offer it as a possibility and generator of discussion, not as scientific or even scholarly fact.
 Caution! Spin doctors at work! There goes the History Channel... May 25, 2008
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Where does one start with this abomination?
The Exodus Decoded claims to be a valid attempt at shedding light on the Biblical Exodus, though the arguments presented are laughable to anyone with basic/elementary knowledge of the peoples and the time in question.
This fictional approach has the audacity to claim that Mycenaean gold found by Heinrich Schliemann was actually Egyptian gold brought by Israelites who broke away from the main host (!!!) led by Moses and ended up in the Peloponnesus. Moreover, the documentary alleges that the Mycenaean swords found were brought to Mycenae by those same Israelites. Apart from the fact that if indeed they had been innocent slaves who just wanted to be set free they would not have been armed or carrying somebody else's gold with them which indicates that maybe they were not that "innocent" (and which is a different story altogether), mixing Israelites and Mycenaeans is dangerous and absurd to say the least.
After watching The Exodus Decoded I headed to the Athens Archeological Museum (30 minutes' drive) to see for myself these claims regarding the three piece stonework depicting the charioteer (Pharaoh) and the artifact claimed to depict the Ark. In both cases you have to let your imagination run amuck before reaching the conclusions that this "documentary" is trying to sell.
Presenting accurate and valid sources proving the close relations between the Minoans and the Egyptians and how the Minoans were the only people recognized by Egypt as being civilized has very little if anything to do with the topic apart from throwing in a few truths to make the tale being spun more believable.
This "History Channel" documentary is overflowing with bias and wishful thinking in all its glory. The so-called "passion of Jewish-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici" mentioned by Tom Keogh in the editorial review does nothing whatsoever to prevent Jacobovici's work and by extension himself personally from being dishonored and discredited.
Is someone maybe trying to give much more significance to certain groups than is deserving or historically accurate??? Why is it that one gets the feeling that this was more the result of poorly conceived and executed propaganda and politics than anything else... The truth, whatever it might be, must be protected at all cost and not be left to be sacrificed in pursuit of political agendas.
The Exodus Decoded (History Channel) April 20, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The service was fast and the program is very interesting. If you think you know when the exodus occured, than this film will have you asking questions,and that is what a good educational program does.
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