Joseph rises to the position of “Tzafnat Pa’aneakh” after successfully helping the Pharaoh of Egypt with his economic plans. Under Joseph’s guidance all land became the property of Pharaoh. A new Pharaoh comes to power who does not favor the Israelites. They are enslaved and…
Eine Filmreihe über exzessives Sportwetten Die dokumentarische Filmreihe zeigt Menschen, die im verschiedenen Umfang Sportwetten gemacht haben. Einige ein bisschen, einige exzessiv als Glücksspielsucht. Im Mittelpunkt der Filme stehen der Lebensalltag der Betroffenen und ihr Umgang mit Sportwetten.…
Dr. Neiman covers the reigns of Hatshepsut through Haremhab. Egypt became a great economic and military power and wealth accumulated among a new class of Egyptian - the middle class. The growing power of this merchant class ignited revolutions in art and culture known as the Amarna Age.
The rise of Islam was a shock to the Christian world. The Islamic conquest swept through Persia, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and north Africa. The Christian world became split between east and west. The rise of the Norman power gave the western church strong fighting force. A monk named Peter the Hermit…
The stories in the Book of Genesis are sometimes strange and disturbing including the accounts of Abraham’s cousin Lot, Abraham’s relationship with Hagar and Ishmael and the sacrifice of Isaac. In this seventh lecture in Dr. David Neiman’s eight part series on the Book of Genesis,…
Dr. Neiman draws a detailed picture of Egypt during the Amarana age. The Amarna age was a time of social, economic and cultural transformation in Egypt. The internal conflict in Egypt prevented the Pharaohs from exercising control over his empire as revealed in the tablets excavated in Amarna. Dr.…
The Bible refers to Abraham as Abraham the "Ibri" or "Hebrew". But who are the Hebrews and what role does the this tribe play in the socio-political world of the time? Dr. Neiman paints a detailed portrait of the world in which Abraham's story takes place.
Chapters IV and V of Genesis are often stumbling blocks to those who try to read the Bible. Dr. Neiman transforms these dry chapters on the genealogies of man into fascinating accounts of the pagan origins and ancient king lists that the writers of the bible drew on in order to craft these chapters.
Dr. Neiman examines the similarities and differences between the Biblical story of the flood and the earlier Babylonian tradition on which it was based, while also theorizing about the nature of the disaster that may have led to the story's creation. After providing historical context to the story…
Dr. David Neiman interprets the story of the Garden of Eden and the creation of man and woman, all the while explaining the rationality and historical context of these most significant chapters of the Bible.
The author of the first chapter of Genesis uses strong polemic language to starkly contrast Israelite cosmology with the pervasive pagan cosmologies of the first millennium B.C.E. While the Canaanites, Greeks and Babylonians turned natural phenomena into a multitude of gods and goddesses, the Israelite…
