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Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy

  • 2019
  • Not Rated
  • 2h 20m
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6.6/10
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Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy (2019)
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A filmmaker searches for scientific evidence that Moses wrote the first books of the Bible.A filmmaker searches for scientific evidence that Moses wrote the first books of the Bible.A filmmaker searches for scientific evidence that Moses wrote the first books of the Bible.

  • Director
    • Timothy P. Mahoney
  • Writers
    • Steven Law
    • Timothy P. Mahoney
  • Stars
    • Michael Shelomo Bar-Ron
    • William G. Dever
    • Manis Friedman
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Director
      • Timothy P. Mahoney
    • Writers
      • Steven Law
      • Timothy P. Mahoney
    • Stars
      • Michael Shelomo Bar-Ron
      • William G. Dever
      • Manis Friedman
    • 11User reviews
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    Michael Shelomo Bar-Ron
    • Self
    William G. Dever
    • Self
    Manis Friedman
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    Duane Garrett
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    Peter J. Gentry
    • Self
    Orly Goldwasser
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    Os Guinness
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    Douglas Knight
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    Nabil Koni
    • Moses
    Timothy P. Mahoney
    • Self
    • (as Tim Mahoney)
    Chris Naunton
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    Douglas Petrovich
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    J. Randall Price
    J. Randall Price
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    Donald Redford
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    Brian Rickert
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    David Rohl
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    Christopher Rollston
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      • Timothy P. Mahoney
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      • Steven Law
      • Timothy P. Mahoney
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    10doffygx

    Compelling evidence for Moses lifetime and other parts of the Bible

    This documentary provides an overwhelming amount of evidence for the Moses and many other parts of the Bible have been proven all the time, everyone has been looking at the same evidence but some people are being possessed by denial . Moreover the entire egyptian traditional timeline has been messed up by secular archaeologians and they admitted it themselves, when it is aligned correctly with the Bible and the other calendars the date and evidence match correctly. It is sad that a lot of unbelievers have been manipulated into worshiping false religions of naturalism which tell them that their existense is a random accident with no meaning and they believe that these false human made dogmas are actually true despite being proven wrong, along with many other mistakes. The Bible keeps being proven correct all the time.

    As the prophets said in the past, people will be corrupted by pride, thinking that they become intelligent and try to make themselves gods but in reality they are becoming foolish, full of unreasonable hatred and despair and turn away from their Creator. The Amazon website which is mainstream has a lot more reviews and they are all overwhelingly positive but here on imdb which is less populated it has some sad people that unreasonably hate everything including themselves and give low reviews to desperately try and lie to their own hearts but in the end it is all in vain. The Word of God will always be the only truth.
    2lordsnott

    Ignores the science while pushing propaganda

    This is a bad documentary. It attempts to push a specifically US-style form of fundamentalism, by trying to prove that Moses wrote the first five books of the bible.

    It interviews evangelicals at southern US seminaries and pretends they have the same level of expertise as actual doctors, professors, and researchers at places like Israeli universities (who all disagree with the agenda pushed by the documentary maker).

    It completely ignores the evidence and research demonstrating that the Torah was written by at least four different authors. It ignores how contradictory passages are interspersed with the different authors even using different names for god, describing contradictory events. It instead concludes that Moses was able to write the Torah because ancient Israelites invented the alphabet via divine intervention.

    The documentary intentionally asks the wrong questions, so it can evade actual research and evidence. For example, it spends about half the run time trying to prove the ancient Israelis invented the alphabet. It fails at this, but apparently it felt the need to go this route because the makers thought it proves the books were written by Moses. To it's credit (and why I gave it a 2 instead of a 1), it actually shows real experts clearly stating the hypothesis is nonsense. Unfortunately, it doesn't provide them much opportunity to explain all the reasons it's nonsense.

    This is not a documentary, it's US-specific religious propaganda. Only watch this if you're an anthropologist studying US culture.
    10guy-372

    Good Education, But First Watch the prequel "Patterns of Evidence: Exodus"

    Fascinating documentary specifically on whether there was even an alphabet for Moses to have written the first five books of the Bible. Or whether the Bible had to be written, as some contend, many hundreds of years later, taking imaginary campfire stories and making them into a religion to hold the people together.

    This is the 2nd of the Patterns of Evidence Series, which today has 4 movies. In my august opinion, they should be viewed in order, as they build on the previous documentaries, and are incomplete explanations, when taken out of order.

    I didn't know there was a proto-sinaic alphabet. It does a great job with archaeology and history to show that there was an alphabet, at the time of Moses, in which he could have written his parts of the first five books of the Bible. It goes into the development and changes of the letters and the common bias in modern archaeology against the biblical record. It even includes one archaeologist who believes what she believes because her teacher told her it was so; yikes! And then she puts forth her quaint unreasonable theory that a no account person, who had no need for letters, invented the letters, and the people, who also had no need for letters, just naturally loved them and adopted them. It shows that the quality of archaeologists range from the IQ of your smartest classmates to your dumbest classmates. It's a good documentary for the person who really does care about everything about the Bible.
    10tijerinomiriam

    Very interesting

    I loved this documentary, especially the acting/images part of the film(would like to see more of it in future films) very interesting to see the different point of views of scholars & what the Bible reads. Good work. I am giving 10 stars because I can not find anything wrong with the film, very honest approach and because it makes you question what or who to believe... scholars, history, men????
    8tfc

    Not too much religious bias but the history of proto-writing is the intriguing part.

    Watched it twice. The first part was a little slow and preachy that are mostly fluff but later on when the real religion/history academicians talked about proto-writing the movie became very interesting. As with other historical fields of study, this movie presents its view points but at least tried to base it on what the scholars said. Ignoring the fluffy bits and being a language geek, I enjoyed it very much.

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    • Release date
      • March 14, 2019 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Also known as
      • Patterns of Evidence: Moses Controversy
    • Production company
      • Thinking Man Films
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $765,361
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $217,327
      • Mar 17, 2019
    • Gross worldwide
      • $765,361
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