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The Bible: From One-Reeler to Docu-dramaTuesday, April 23, 2013 by Alex Joffe | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
The History Channel's The Bible is a small epic, with editorial choices that produce predictable results. But some of this smallness yields unexpected insights.
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Another Crime of Passion Larry Poland, Abraham Cooper, Yitzchok Adlerstein, First Things. Most of the Jewish characters in the History Channel's The Bible look like "imports from Texas." But Caiaphas and company are made to appear distinctively Jewish.
Our Mothers, Our Fathers Thomas Rogers, New Republic. A new German miniseries depicting the cruelty of soldiers during World War II shows that "the crimes of the Wehrmacht are no longer a taboo," but "a well-integrated theme in German history."