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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Directed By: Simcha Jacobovici, Elliott Halpern
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767028806
Format: Color
ISBN: 0767028805
Label: A&E Home Video
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Release Date: 2001-02-27
Running Time: 100
Studio: A&E Home Video
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Summary: MUST SEE!
Comment: There are two kinds of people in the world; those who believe in the literal gathering of Israel and those who don't. And there is a third group too -- those who have never even heard of the concept. Regardless which camp you find yourself in, this documentary is enlightening and makes a compelling case that a literal gathering of the tribes of Israel is occurring today, and that the result of this gathering of Abraham's posterity will trigger end-time apocalyptic events on earth. Historians and bible students both agree that when the Northern Kingdom of Israel was defeated by Assyria that thousands, or perhaps millions of people were deported, relocated and then lost to history. But the question has always been, "Where did they go?"
Quest for the Lost Tribes is one explanation of where some of them are today. The film suggests that many of these people are returning to Israel and reconnecting their ancient families to the homeland. Not everyone will agree with the conclusions Jacobovici draws in his lengthy documentary but no one can deny that his film is fascinating to watch. The nearly two hour story takes viewers from Africa to India and many parts in between, giving examples and plausible explanations on the whereabouts of the Ten Tribes. Jacobovici interviews dozens of people who have unique connections to Hebrew roots. While he unravels many questions about the gathering of Israel from a Jewish perspective, his work raises many more.
As one who has always taken a deeply religious approach to this subject, I enjoyed watching this film very much. Nothing that Jacobovici reveals precludes any of my own religious views on the scattering and gathering phenomenon but rather helps me broaden my own outlook on this vast and intriguing subject. The scattering of Israel is obviously more grand and extensive than I ever realized, and I appreciate the fact that Quest for the Lost Tribes opened my mind to many new facets on this stimulating subject.
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Summary: Every Nation Every Tribe
Comment: I believe this Documentary is Brilliantly Prophetic. Simcha Jacobovici has truly been called and set apart to research this complicated "Quest for the lost tribes."
It will peak your interest and challenge your intellect. Make sure you set aside some time to watch the video more than once in order to fully grasp and understand the entirety of the message.
Perhaps, I think those who would appreciate the documentary most are biblical scholars specializing in the end times and the restoration of the lost tribes to Israel. For those of us who do not fit in that category it can be difficult to follow at times.
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Summary: Thought provoking
Comment: This film is one of my all time favorite biblical, lost tribe, trying to make sence out of ancient history films. The only regret I had after watching it was that it wasn't a seven episode series like the John Romer classic series Testament. I don't subscribe to everything that Jacobovici states but he does introduce his viewers to posibilities, and he is highly entertaining in an Indiana Jones like way. Its good clean speculation, adventure, and inclusion in an other wise sometimes nasty, boring, and exclusionary world.
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Summary: It all sounds great, until you check the fine print.
Comment: Unfortunately, I am burdened with the same kind of background (PhD in Ancient History, Hebrew, Archaeology) as the scholars Jacobovici includes in his film. Like them, I am not impressed. This film combines the obvious (the presence of old Jewish communities in the Middle East) with the fantastic (string together a few linguistic and cultural correlations and sell it like snake oil). Bold assertions often turn out to be stretched (e.g. the presence of Aramaic documents proves Hebrew provenance), while connecting the dots in the author's trail of evidence requires far more than simply faith. Something closer to credulity.
Much of the film is simply fascinating showmanship, with an apocalyptic end-times aura. Unfortunately, the naive viewer won't realise that a good bit is also old news, stuff that can be found in any history of Jewish life. But, whether old news or fanciful speculation, it is all presented in the same wide-eyed 'Wow, they never told you this, did they?' style that seems to characterise this showman cum director.
Sorry to be so negative, but Jacobovici seems part Gary, Indiana's Music Man and part kosher Elmer Gantry?
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Summary: Worth seeing -- amazing if even half true!
Comment: Anyone interested in ancient Hebrew history from Palestine through Iran to Central Asia should see this documentary. The director has travelled widely to collect footage of evidence of ancient Jewish presence in places like western China, Uzbekistan, Tunisia, and Afghanistan (where he and his crew probably risked bullets to do the investigation and interviews). Using his Jewish heritage, he explains with a combination of cultural knowledge, filmed texts on rocks, interviews with tribal elders, and an entertaining enthusiasm how each of the communities he identified might have originated from the ten lost Israelite tribes.
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