This review appeared in the May 2015 issue of U.S. Let’s say something better about ourselves as American viewers with what we watch. If you want to be entertained and informed, stick with Nova or Cosmos. While exploring history can be an uncertain business, other shows do a far better job covering the same material. Instead of science, The Truth Behind gives viewers speculation and a titillating inflation of what feels like thousand-year-old gossip.
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And at Qumran, we can see the remains of an elaborate water system that channeled rainwater from the cliffs into a series of pools.” This, the voice-over tells us, is the “most common interpretation of the Qumran site.” (Insert pause for overly dramatic effect.) “But it is not the only one.” The next five minutes debunk the previous five minutes, while the voice-over peppers the conversation with phrases like “All we can say for certain . . .” and “We will never know if this is true.” In the Dead Sea Scrolls episode, a dramatic voice-over says, “In a ritual that seems to foreshadow the teachings of John the Baptist, the scroll writers used sacred waters to spiritually cleanse themselves.
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While this sounds like good science-a free exchange of ideas and the opportunity to argue points of contention-the way it is presented on the show feels more like a televised version of the National Enquirer. Want to know the truth behind the Devils Bible Or the Dead Sea Scrolls How about one of the Old Testaments two famous arks Curious about UFOs, Bigfoot or. The documentary employs archaeologists and theologians whose sole purpose seems to be negating the last speaker. Take, for example, an episode that explores the Dead Sea Scrolls. Unfortunately, the show serves up some sloppy science. So back to the Bible, where in Chapter 13 of The Book of Revelation, it reads: Let the one with understanding reckon the meaning of the number of the beast. This could say something wonderful about American television viewers it could say we are hungry for information. The hour-long show unravels mysteries of the world such as the devil’s Bible and Noah’s Ark. If asked to guess what one of the most popular shows on Netflix is, few of us would think that National Geographic’s series The Truth Behind sits on that list. National Geographic (Story House Productions, 2013- )
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