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Home THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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Thomas Romer is a professor of the Old Testament at the Lausanne Faculty of Theology.
He will be our guide with respect to this work.
[Thomas Romer, University of Lausanne] What is the Hebraic Bible? First of all, it is obviously the founding text of Judaism. It is also the text that is at the origin of three monotheisms: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. In more precise terms, it is the history [?] of the Hebraic people, a national history [?] that begins with the Patriarchs and goes through to the royalty.
With this national history [?] also became a universal history [?] through the prophets, and by being opened up to other nations. So the Hebraic Bible is both a very specific book related to the Hebraic people [?], and due to its acceptance and enlargement, a book that carries a universal message.
[Narrator] The Old Testament is composed of a series of books ...
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