Program Examines Bible’s Authorship

“Who Wrote the Bible?” Sunday, 5 and 9 p.m., A&E cable channel

Sunday night at 5 and 9, the A&E cable channel devotes three hours to the question “Who Wrote the Bible?” The program, written and produced by Lionel Friedberg for Multimedia Entertainment and FilmRoos, arises from Multimedia’s ongoing “Mysteries of the Bible” syndicated series, parts of which regularly appear in A&E’s Friday night “Ancient Mysteries” hour.

What you will not see in this special is anyone who belittles or minimizes the importance of the many sacred texts they discuss.

Quite the opposite. Friedberg and his colleagues interviewed a large number of respectful, even reverent, scholars and professors of religion drawn from an exhaustive list of institutions of learning.

The program also allows literalists - the Rev. Jerry Falwell, for example - to state their beliefs for the record. 950318 TV-BIBLE-P

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