2:03:21Every Book of the Bible Explained in One Video
hochelaga's biggest film walks the entire Bible one book at a time, all sixty six of them, from Genesis to Revelation in canonical order, through a historical and artistic lens rather than a devotional one. The Old Testament half tells the story of the Jewish people and their covenant with God, from creation through the patriarchs, the Exodus, the kingdoms of Saul, David and Solomon, the fall of Israel to Assyria in 722 BC, the Babylonian exile in 587 BC, and the Persian return under Cyrus in 539 BC. The New Testament half covers the four Gospels, the early church in Acts, the letters of Paul and the general epistles, and the apocalyptic visions of Revelation. Throughout, hochelaga ties the text to its ancient Near Eastern context, noting older or external echoes like the Enuma Elish, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Code of Hammurabi, the Mesha Stele and the Cyrus Cylinder, and to scholarly questions of authorship and dating. It closes by calling the Bible a library asking who we are and what our place in the universe is, a book in conversation with itself.