John M Joseph All these people pointing out historical inaccuracies are comical. It's a mini-series. They are cramming the most important events in 10 hours. I thought the effects were pretty good and the acting was great. I remember as a kid going to CCD every week learning about this was so annoying but as I've got older I appreciate all the lessons more. It's worth the time if you like Biblical stories.

newsound I finally had a chance to watch "The Bible" and was amazed at the poorly-written, almost laughable script. While the cinematography, acting and SFX are professional and believable, the script IS NOT. If you were to take a Sunday school class of 8 to 12 year-olds and ask them to write a script for a series based on the Bible, this would be the result. I was amazed to read that the producers consulted "a wide range of pastors and academics." Really? Maybe the only way to tell such a beloved story is to be simplistic and shallow. But, since these stories have all been done many times before, I would have hoped for something a little more sophisticated. And whoever it was that said narration is the sign of a poorly-written script was absolutely right about this one.

SnoopyStyle This 10-part History Channel miniseries is produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey. They are the stories from the bible starting with God telling the childless Abraham to bring his wife Sarah and tribe to new lands yet revealed. The production is workmanlike in both the good and bad sense of the word. The product looks well-made if somewhat uninspired. There are no big name stars in the series. It may be both intentional as well as budgetary. The effects are as good as can be expected. The stories have been cleaned up a bit. The first glaring example is Lot who confronts the mob outside. "Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof." I understand why that has to be cut out for modern ears. So this is not a word for word reproduction which is fine by me. The end result is that this is a reasonable distillation of the Bible. It has pace. It looks good. It doesn't shy away from the violence and the grittiness. It's a good watch for young people learning the Bible.

jefferycarlson I think some reviewers judged the show too much. So what if Jesus in the movie was pretty and their was more violence in the bible then the show? The actual release on Blu-ray and DVD had some scenes edited it seems to make them more biblically related. I am trying to remember, I think in Jericho that the scenes seem more believable after watching the DVD version because you can see that they actual kill the women and men or actually try to kill everything. I did not see any children killed but it seems to match up somewhat more with biblical context on the DVD or Blu-ray. Did anyone notice the differences in scenes played out on the DVD or Blu-ray collection? I think that some editing of the scenes was great because the true unedited and unrated version would have been more like a 300-movie and drive some people away. In Addition, Their are plenty of movies to cover the parts of the old testament not already covered by the bible. For instance, one night with the king and many others.People like to say that the old testament was mostly genocide. You have to see the bigger picture though: Israel was meant to replace the people or cultures that had already started throwing children into the fire or offering them as sacrifices to idols, raping people in the streets, and other nasty stuff(clearly in the old testament more then once). So, taking an eagles eye view it was a choice between Israel who was keeping gods commandments and acting civilized and the other countries that were clearly barbaric in their practices and would not listen to change or even meet halfway in change or reason with them.