Nadene Goldfoot
My favorite historian and archaeologist, who has devoted his life to studying our ancient history, Simcha Jacobovici, has bagged the events of the Exodus whereas most others think The Exodus is just a myth. The Exodus Decoded is a 2006 documentary film by "investigative archaeologist" and filmmaker, Simcha Jacobovici. In fact, his other productions are under the name of the Naked Archaeologist, so he's one archaeologist who is also a serious historian as well of our Jewish history.
The Naked Archaeologist is a television series on VisionTV in Canada and History International in the US, that was produced and hosted by the Emmy Award–winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici together with Avri Gilad. The show examines biblical stories and 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 and final season began airing on Vision TV on March 22, 2010 and on History International on November 8, 2010.
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"The documentary deals with The Exodus, the founding myth history of the Israelites. Jews take the Exodus very seriously if they're any kind of a Jew. The Torah tell about this event, a basis for our history with Moses. It's kept us being Jewish for the past 3,522 years! I take it as an affront for others to call it a myth. While few mainstream historians would consider the Book of Exodus as a reliable narrative, Cameron and Jacobovici present a speculative question as to whether the events as described, particularly relating to the plagues of Egypt, could be explained naturalistically. Central to its thesis is the volcanic eruption of Thera/Santorini. In other words, he has set about to prove that the Exodus did happen and was possible; was truth.
A suggested date of 1500 BCE is made for the Exodus, during the reign of pharaoh Ahmose I. The "palpable darkness" described as the 9th plague, is hypothetically attributed to the cloud of volcanic ash caused by the Minoan eruption, which is identified as the events described in the Tempest Stele. A conjectural limnic eruption in the Nile Delta, similar to that of the Lake Nyos disaster in 1986, is explored as a further source of mass death. Jacobovici is actually quite adamant about the date of 1500 BCE as the volcano eruption sets the date of events, and that seems to have a sturdy date already.
The documentary first aired on Discovery Channel Canada on April 16, 2006." It is 92 minutes long.
1500 BCE is not the date that our Jewish history uses. Moses was born in 1391 BCE and died at age 120 by 1271 BCE according to the findings of our best rabbis according to my New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia. Moses was 80 when he started out on the Exodus which would have been the year 1311. 1500 comes from today's world and is a speculation, so Simcha had to use that date. The difference between 1500 BCE and 1311 BCE is 189 years, 189 very important years. I could round that out to 200 and realize that 200 years is not much in ancient calculations, though. Hmmm.
Wikipedia continues: As a popular history documentary, The Exodus Decoded attracted few critiques from mainstream scholars. The Washington Post described the use of CGI as "stunning", a view shared by The New York Times, which placed the documentary's content firmly in the realms of conspiracy theory. A review in The Jerusalem Post noted that none of the arguments made in the film were accepted by mainstream archaeology and that film-maker Jacobovici freely admitted his lack of academic credentials.
One has to be a fan of his work to appreciate his knowledge,
though. Not only is his productions highly entertaining, he
manages to prove his findings.
Simcha Jacobovici's parents were Holocaust survivors from Iași, Romania. He was born April 4, 1953, in Petah Tikva, Israel. In 1962, the family relocated to Canada. He's 7 days younger than my daughter. Simcha Jacobovici’s religion is Judaism. The undeniable fact that Jacobovici lives on the Danforth and practices Orthodox Judaism is noteworthy.
Simcha Jacobovici, an Orthodox Jew, is married to his partner Nicole Kornberg. The couple tied the knot in December 1991. They are dad and mother to their 5 children (4 women and one boy). The pair keep merely outdoor Toronto in a 3,700-square-foot Thornhill home. Nicole Kornberg is a Canadian-Israeli artist. Dr. Ciniza Chiari, a paintings curator, has described her work as a present of historic forces in updated sorts. Nicole and her husband appeared on the favored current “The Naked Archeologist” from 2005 until 2010.
He earned a B.A. in philosophy and political science (with honors) from McGill University and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Toronto. From 2015 to 2018 he was an adjunct professor of religious studies at Huntington University, Greater Sudbury, Ontario. He is married and the father of five children.
He seems to be into the Jewish ancestry of New Mexican Hispanic households and discovers that a number of them have always been aware of their Jewish origin. Jacobovici investigates the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico, along with the Nuevos Cristianos, a small group of Jewish ancestors in Spain and Portugal (“new Christians”).
As an early advocate of airlifting Ethiopian Jews to Israel, he wrote an op-ed piece on the subject for New York Times and made his first documentary, Falasha: Exile of the Black Jews (1983). The Economist credited Jacobovici's documentary as one of the factors leading to the 1984–85 Israeli airlift of Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
Jacobovici's film on the Arab-Israeli conflict, Deadly Currents (1991),won the Genie Award for Best Documentary, a gold medal at the International Documentary Festival of Nyon, and was the runner-up for the Peace Prize at the 1991 Berlin Film Festival and was the only documentary screened in both Israeli army bases and Palestinian Refugee Camps. Rotton Tomatoes said, "In Deadly Currents, Simcha Jacobovici ambitiously set out to make a film that explores the complexities of the 4,000 year old conflict between Israel and Palestine.
After shooting 100 hours of film, he began the editing job, a process that that lasted 18 months, but he came up with a film that does not attempt to take sides but to present an open a dialogue.
Jacobovici got the idea to do this film after seeing a photograph that seemed to caricature the people involved. He decided to put real voices to the caricatures he saw in grainy photographs by interviewing some of the most dangerous players in the long-embattled Middle-East conflict.
The director also interviewed the people who were attempting to build bridges between the warring sides. Jacobovici didn’t want to make a film that would only touch those involved or related to the conflict, but instead wanted his docu to resonate in remote places like Belfast and L.A.
This aptly titled documentary seems particularly interesting because of the dangerous places it takes its audience, the physical danger of violence and the emotional danger of taking sides.
Jacobovici has made three documentaries with James Cameron, The Exodus Decoded (2005), The Lost Tomb of Jesus (2007) and Atlantis Rising (2016). I've only seen many of the Naked Archaeologist and the Exodus and the Lost Tomb.
I note that Simcha has done a great deal of exploring the history of Jesus. He has come up with facts that might be upsetting to the Christian community or wonderful, depending on one's mindset. The same goes for us Jews. We should all remember that Jesus was a very common name, and so was Joseph. The one I watched, with finding the "box" with the bones and Jesus son of Jacob written on it in very very old Hebrew, could fit many families, but he went on and on, finding other names in the family of Jesus that I had never known about. Simcha does find resources beyond the normal person's ability to do so. He stumbled onto the cave where all the boxes of this family were stored, in the middle of the city, as it was, and with another special tool could see inside. Simcha's desire to find the information knows no bounds ! It seems to me that no one really cares as much as he does, and he brings it all to life for his audience.
Update:9/4/22 I just watched his 2 hour program on Finding the Lost 10 Tribes, and it was wonderful. My opinion is that he deserves a PhD for the work he has put into this. I've done a lot of writing and reading about it myself, especially about the people in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India who follow Pashtunwali, and are of the lost tribes, and appreciate what Simcha has done.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus_Decoded
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Archaeologist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Jacobovici
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