Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC, Full Screen
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: A&E Home Video
• VHS Release Date: December 23, 1996
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304340109
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #485,744 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Although part of the A&E Bible mystery series, this 45-minute installment examines a historical puzzle not included in the Bible: the failed Jewish uprising against the Romans three decades after Jesus' execution. Using eight people as touchstones (such as Masada resistance leader Eleazar ben Jair and rebel-turned-historian Josephus), narrator Richard Kiley traces the beginnings of the revolt through massacres like the one at Gamala, leaving just two survivors, to the (accidental?) burning of the temple in Jerusalem. Jean Simmons reads from the only surviving account of the times, penned by Josephus himself. The mystery stems from the question of Josephus's reliability as a historian, since the Jewish rebel is considered a traitor for making a pact with the Romans, and from the fact that he leaves large gaps in his writings. This installment proves to be one of the most fascinating of the series, as it focuses on events little known to those whose knowledge of those times ends where the Bible does. --Kimberly Heinrichs

Product Description

Since the days of King David, the Jewish people have claimed the rocky hillsides of Judea as their Promised Land. And no structure better symbolized that covenant than the majestic Holy Temple on Jerusalem's sacred mountain.Six hundred years after its construction, the Temple was the scene of an unlikely battle for freedom, as Jews fought impossible odds to repel legions of Roman soldiers. Of all of the peoples of the Near East, why did the Jews alone dare challenge the greatest imperial power the world had ever known? Why was Rome determined to prevail at any cost? And what happened to the sacred Temple when the siege finally broke through Jerusalem's walls? Join the world's leading archeologists and scholars as they unravel the riddles of the Holy Temple -and the great Jewish revolt that destroyed it.

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Done in a extremely entertaining and thought provoking way., October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mysteries of the Bible: The Last Revolt [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The producers do a near perfect job in creating a documentary that is extremely entertaining by introducting the key characters and elaborating their role in the gripping drama as it unfolds. The mood they create throughout the script keeps you glued to the screen, they do a great job of keeping the viewer constantly trying to unravel the different theories to what really occured and why.(This is enhanced by the great guest commentators who go back and forth throughout the script each giving a different opinion at what they think really transpired.) The music and the pictures are very powerful in creating a eerie foreboding pace during the sequences where they postulate theories on the events, they then intensify during the very gripping battle scenes. This is the best video in the entire series that I've seen, as entertaining as any great historical movie. (The siege of Gamala and Jerusalem are excellently choreographed.)