The Naked Archaeologist
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The Naked Archaeologist is a television show produced for VisionTV in Canada
and History International
in the US that is hosted and prepared by the Emmy Award
–winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici
together with Avri Gilad
. The show ultimately reviews Biblical
stories, then tries to find proof for them by exploring the Holy Land
looking for archaeological evidence, personal inferences, deductions, and interviews with scholars and experts.
Subsequent to its original run on VisionTV, it was picked up in the U.S. by The History Channel
and its sister network, History International
.
The third season began airing on Vision TV on March 22, 2010 and on History International on November 8, 2010.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
and History International
History International
H2 , formerly History International , is a digital cable and satellite television channel that features historical documentaries, traditionally with an international focus...
in the US that is hosted and prepared by the Emmy Award
Emmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
–winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici
Simcha Jacobovici
Simcha Jacobovici is a Canadian film director, producer, free-lance journalist, and writer. He is a three-times Emmy winner for Outstanding Investigative Journalism....
together with Avri Gilad
Avri Gilad
Avri Gilad is an Israeli media personality.Gilad was born Avraham Kwastler; he changed his name to "Avri Gilad" when he started his professional career in the mid-1980s in the Israel Defense Forces Radio...
. The show ultimately reviews Biblical
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
stories, then tries to find proof for them by exploring the Holy Land
Holy Land
The Holy Land is a term which in Judaism refers to the Kingdom of Israel as defined in the Tanakh. For Jews, the Land's identifiction of being Holy is defined in Judaism by its differentiation from other lands by virtue of the practice of Judaism often possible only in the Land of Israel...
looking for archaeological evidence, personal inferences, deductions, and interviews with scholars and experts.
Subsequent to its original run on VisionTV, it was picked up in the U.S. by The History Channel
The History Channel
History, formerly known as The History Channel, is an American-based international satellite and cable TV channel that broadcasts a variety of reality shows and documentary programs including those of fictional and non-fictional historical content, together with speculation about the future.-...
and its sister network, History International
History International
H2 , formerly History International , is a digital cable and satellite television channel that features historical documentaries, traditionally with an international focus...
.
The third season began airing on Vision TV on March 22, 2010 and on History International on November 8, 2010.
Season 1 (2005)
- "DelilahDelilahDelilah appears only in the Hebrew bible Book of Judges 16, where she is the "woman in the valley of Sorek" whom Samson loved, and who was his downfall...
's People" (5 September 2005) - "Who Invented the AlphabetAlphabetAn alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...
?" (12 September 2005) - "Jerusalem & The Black Prince" (19 September 2005)
- "What Killed HerodHerod the GreatHerod , also known as Herod the Great , was a Roman client king of Judea. His epithet of "the Great" is widely disputed as he is described as "a madman who murdered his own family and a great many rabbis." He is also known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and elsewhere, including his...
?" (26 September 2005) - "Real or Fake?" (3 October 2005)
- "Fame & Forgery?" (10 October 2005)
- "Accidental ArchaeologyArchaeologyArchaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
" (17 October 2005) - "Biblical Food" (24 October 2005)
- "JesusJesusJesus of Nazareth , commonly referred to as Jesus Christ or simply as Jesus or Christ, is the central figure of Christianity...
: The Early Years" (31 October 2005) - "John the BaptistJohn the BaptistJohn the Baptist was an itinerant preacher and a major religious figure mentioned in the Canonical gospels. He is described in the Gospel of Luke as a relative of Jesus, who led a movement of baptism at the Jordan River...
" (7 November 2005) - "True Blue" (14 November 2005)
- "Return of the Hilazon" (21 November 2005)
- "Last Man Standing" (28 November 2005)
- "CrucifixionCrucifixionCrucifixion is an ancient method of painful execution in which the condemned person is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang until dead...
" (5 December 2005) - "King David" (12 December 2005)
- "JezebelJezebelJezebel may refer to:* Jezebel, wife of King Ahab*Jezebel, in the Book of Revelation 2:20 a prophetess in the church of Thyatira* Jezebel , starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda* Jezebel , a blog aimed at women...
: Bible Bad Girl (19 December 2005) - "The Oldest Leper (26 December 2005)
- "JoshuaJoshuaJoshua , is a minor figure in the Torah, being one of the spies for Israel and in few passages as Moses's assistant. He turns to be the central character in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Joshua...
" (2 January 2006) - "MasadaMasadaMasada is the name for a site of ancient palaces and fortifications in the South District of Israel, on top of an isolated rock plateau, or horst, on the eastern edge of the Judean Desert, overlooking the Dead Sea. Masada is best known for the violence that occurred there in the first century CE...
" (9 January 2006) - "Who Wrote the Dead Sea ScrollsDead Sea scrollsThe Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of 972 texts from the Hebrew Bible and extra-biblical documents found between 1947 and 1956 on the northwest shore of the Dead Sea, from which they derive their name...
?" (16 January 2006) - "Holy Hot SpotTemple MountThe Temple Mount, known in Hebrew as , and in Arabic as the Haram Ash-Sharif , is one of the most important religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a religious site for thousands of years...
" (23 January 2006) - "Biblical Epicentre - Temple Mount" (30 January 2006)
- "The Mother of ArchaeologyHelena of ConstantinopleSaint Helena also known as Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople was the consort of Emperor Constantius, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I...
- St. Helena" (6 February 2006) - "Who Wrote the BibleBibleThe Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
?" (13 February 2006) - "Where is Mount SinaiMount SinaiMount Sinai , also known as Mount Horeb, Mount Musa, Gabal Musa , Jabal Musa meaning "Moses' Mountain", is a mountain near Saint Catherine in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. A mountain called Mount Sinai is mentioned many times in the Book of Exodus in the Torah and the Bible as well as the Quran...
?" (20 February 2006) - "The Real Mount Sinai" (27 February 2006)
Season 2 (2008)
- "The Would-be MessiahMessiahA messiah is a redeemer figure expected or foretold in one form or another by a religion. Slightly more widely, a messiah is any redeemer figure. Messianic beliefs or theories generally relate to eschatological improvement of the state of humanity or the world, in other words the World to...
" (16 May 2008) - "The Search for St. Peter" (History Channel International: 23 May 2008)
- "A Nabatean By Any Other Name" (History Channel International: 30 May 2008)
- "Chasing the TempleTemple in JerusalemThe Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple , refers to one of a series of structures which were historically located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock. Historically, these successive temples stood at this location and functioned as the centre of...
Booty – Part One" (History Channel International: 5 May 2008) - "Chasing the Temple Booty – Part Two" (History Channel International: 5 May 2008)
- "The Legacy of King Solomon – Part 1" (History Channel International: 21 May 2008)
- "The Legacy of King Solomon – Part 2" (History Channel International: 2008)
- "Decoding Ezekiel's Vision" (History Channel International: 11 June 2008)
- "Jewish Rome" (History Channel International: 18 June 2008)
- "The Giants of Genesis" (History Channel International: 20 June 2008)
- "All in the Family" (History Channel International: 2008)
- "The Curse of the Macabee Tomb " (History Channel International: Fall 2008)
- "The Search for King David's Harp " (History Channel International: Fall 2008)
- "Hangin' with Judas " (History Channel International: Fall 2008)
- "The Miracle Workers of Galilee" (History Channel International: 17 September 2008)
- "The Collector" (History Channel International: 24 September 2008)
- "Cleanliness is Next to Godliness" (History Channel International: 1 October 2008)
- "What Happened to the JC Bunch? Part 1" (History Channel International: 8 October 2008)
- "What Happened to the JC Bunch? Part 2: Tracking the Tribe" (History Channel International: 8 October 2008)
- "What Happened to the JC Bunch? Part 3: The Early Christian Underground" (History Channel International: 15 October 2008)
- "Babes, Brothels and Baths" (History Channel International: 22 October 2008)
- "The Beloved Disciple" (History Channel International: 29 October 2008)
- "Who Were the Danites" (History Channel International: 5 November 2008)
- "Coat of Many Colors" (History Channel International: 12 November 2008)
- "Bilaam: The Story of a Talking Donkey" (History Channel International: 10 December 2008)
- "Holy Threads" (History Channel International: 24 December 2008)
- Note: Episodes 4 and 5 were originally intended to be aired on June 6 and June 13, respectively, but were aired early, on May 5, in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary.
Season 3 (2010)
- "MosesMosesMoses was, according to the Hebrew Bible and Qur'an, a religious leader, lawgiver and prophet, to whom the authorship of the Torah is traditionally attributed...
vs AkhenatenAkhenatenAkhenaten also spelled Echnaton,Ikhnaton,and Khuenaten;meaning "living spirit of Aten") known before the fifth year of his reign as Amenhotep IV , was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt who ruled for 17 years and died perhaps in 1336 BC or 1334 BC...
(US premier: 8 November 2010 (History Channel International)) - "Ancient Glass (US premier: 9 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "Biblical Beauty Secrets (US premier: 10 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "The Bath That Changed History (US premier: 11 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "The Hairy Show (US premier: 12 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "Rebuilding the TempleTemple in JerusalemThe Temple in Jerusalem or Holy Temple , refers to one of a series of structures which were historically located on the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem, the current site of the Dome of the Rock. Historically, these successive temples stood at this location and functioned as the centre of...
(US premier: 15 November 2010 (History Channel International)) - "Gone Fishing (US premier: 16 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "Naked Letters (US premier: 17 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "LilithLilithLilith is a character in Jewish mythology, found earliest in the Babylonian Talmud, who is generally thought to be related to a class of female demons Līlīṯu in Mesopotamian texts. However, Lowell K. Handy notes, "Very little information has been found relating to the Akkadian and Babylonian view...
: Queen of the Night (US premier: 18 November 2010 (History Channel International)) - "BethsaidaBethsaidaBethsaida is a place mentioned in the New Testament.- Bethsaida Julias :...
and the Cross (US premier: 19 November 2010 (History Channel International)) - "Queen EstherEstherEsther , born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus...
and PurimPurimPurim is a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther .Purim is celebrated annually according to the Hebrew calendar on the 14th...
(US premier: 22 November 2010 (History Channel International)) - "Apostles & Spies, Part 1 (US premier: 23 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- "Apostles & Spies, Part 2 (US premier: 24 November 2010 (History Channel International))
- Note: Season 3 originally aired in Canada on VisionTV in March 2010.