The Exodus Decoded
| The Exodus Decoded | |
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| Genre |
Documentary Religion |
| Created by |
Simcha Jacobovici James Cameron |
| Written by | Simcha Jacobovici |
| Directed by | Simcha Jacobovici |
| Country of origin |
Canada Egypt Greece |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | James Cameron |
| Running time | 92 minutes |
| Distributor |
A&E Television Networks NewVideo |
| Release | |
| Original network | The History Channel |
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The Exodus Decoded is a documentary film aired on April 16, 2006, on The History Channel. The program was created by Israeli-Canadian filmmaker Simcha Jacobovici and the producer/director James Cameron. (The two would later work together on The Lost Tomb of Jesus.) The documentary explores evidence for the Biblical account of the Exodus. Its claims and methods were criticized by Biblical scholars and mainstream scientists.
Jacobovici suggests that the Exodus took place around 1500 BC, during the reign of pharaoh Ahmose I, and that it coincided with the Minoan eruption. In the documentary, the plagues that ravaged Egypt in the Bible are explained as having resulted from that eruption and a related limnic eruption in the Nile Delta, similar to what occurred in the 1980s at Lake Nyos in Cameroon. While much of Jacobovici's archaeological evidence for the Exodus comes from Egypt, some comes from Mycenae on mainland Greece, such as a gold ornament that somewhat resembles the Ark of the Covenant.
The documentary makes extensive use of computer animation and visual effects made by Gravity Visual Effects, Inc., based in Toronto. It runs for 90 minutes and was first aired in Canada on April 16, (Easter Day) 2006 (Discovery Channel Canada). Shown in the US on August 20, 2006 (History Channel US), UK on December 23, 2006 (Discovery Channel UK), Spain on December 25, 2006 (Cuatro) and Israel on April 3, 2007 (Channel 2).
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