Nova uncovers 'The Bible's Buried Secrets' | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times

TCA: Nova uncovers 'The Bible's Buried Secrets' | Show Tracker | Los Angeles Times: "It’s not often you hear “Nova” and “shocking” in the same sentence.

But participants in “The Bible’s Buried Secrets,” a two-hour special airing Nov. 18 on the PBS program, promised this morning that the show would trigger a fair share of controversy.

The special explores the ancient Israelites’ adoption of monotheism and seeks to explain who wrote the Hebrew Bible and what influenced them. Relying on archaeological work and biblical scholarship, the show poses provocative ideas -- including the notion that many Israelites believed that God had a wife –- and disputes literal readings of the text."