The Bible Collection
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Movie Reviews of The Bible Collection
Movie Review: MUST HAVE for Fans of Bible Stories on DVD! SAVE $$$ While Building Your Library!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought all of these 6 DVDs separately because I did not know that they came as a set, at a better price! I paid about $15 each, about $90 total, and I do not regret owning them all, but I would have jumped on this set if I had known about it!
Most of these DVDs are very interesting and faithful to Scripture. SAMSON & DELILAH is the weakest of these 6 DVDs, as it spends too much time on non-scriptural characters. ABRAHAM covers many scenes of the 40 year wandering rarely seen on DVD. JACOB is pretty close to Scripture. JOSEPH is great, but it spends a bit too much time rewriting the narration to allow for Ben Kingsley's Potiphar role to expand. I have not yet watched DAVID, but I look forward to Leonard Nimoy's appearance in the film.
Most of these films are 3 hours long, presumably they were mostly all short mini-series when they originally ran on TV. I think only JACOB is about 90 minutes, of the 6 DVDs in this set. You can read about each DVD as they are all sold separately on amazon.com.
All of these 6 DVDs have major TV network, made-for-TV quality, and I am quite surprised and pleased that these movies are so good. I do not know of any better series of Bible stories on DVD.
There is another Box Set available, THE BIBLE SERIES BOX SET, which has 3 other DVDs of this series of movies. JEREMIAH is my favorite of all 9 movies. ESTHER is great, and perhaps the most faithful to Scriptural accuracy and chronology of all 9 movies. SOLOMON is the only 3 hour DVD in this smaller Box Set. There is a GENESIS in this Box Set, but it is not a dramatized movie, just a narration of the book of Genesis, while modern day nomads are shown going about their daily routine. GENESIS is a disappointment and very UNLIKE the other 9 movies, so much so that it doesn't even seem to be part of the same production series.
Bottom Line: I highly recommend that anybody buy both of these box sets, and they will save about 50% over buying each DVD separately! Praise the LORD!
Movie Review: A Great Bible Visual!
Summary: 5 Stars
This brown cover Bible Collection includes the 6 following dvds: ABRAHAM, DAVID,JACOB,JOSEPH, MOSES, SAMSON and DELILAH.
I usually don't write reviews as a critical writer but, I thought it was important to convey the greatness of this collection for Bible study-along side of your Bible. I am an avid Bible study student and I will say that these dvds are the greatest visual study tool to learn from in regards to cuture of the time, expressiveness, and extent of bringing the Bible to life. I will assure you that reading the Bible is first and foremost, but you should know not every detail may come from the Bible as for "word for word" but much of the culture of the time is evident. I know many will argue over "exactness" of words and details out of Bible text. The overall stories were not meant to take the place of the Bible, just enhance the overall meaning through a more "visual" format of Bible culture and Biblical truth.
I would say that it has enlightened my studies of the Bible and gave me alot of insight. I would highly recommend these dvds to anyone who loves to read the Bible and is not stuck on "paraphrasing" every word but, a person who loves to have the knowledge of scriptural messages and stories in an entertaining visual way. It is well worth the cost for the knowledge and entertainment that captures your heart of God's truth!
Movie Review: Just Watch It!
Summary: 5 Stars
I was very happy when I brought this 6 DVD set in one single beautiful packing. Each and every movie, Abraham, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Samson & Delilah or David -all was superb and brought me more closer to the Old Testament. I have never heard about Joseph (son of Jacob)before but after seeing the movie, I saw it again for a second time. Jacob also is very good and so was David. But Abraham was repetitive for me as HE is the most discussed person in our Bible and I have heard a lot about him. Same was with Moses. But I prefer the "Ten Commandments" more to this version of "Moses".
Ten Commandments does not show us the very important scene where Moses doubts God and gets angry with HIM because when he first hits his staff on the stone for water, God does not bring forth water. So Moses hits the staff once again for the second time and water flows out. This one scene is an important one in the life of Moses. Because Moses doubted God, God said that he will never enter the promised land but see it from afar. This important scene is shown in the movie "Moses" which is included in this collection.
If you are in faith with God and read the bible, especially the Old Testament, this is one worth for your collection.
Glen Vitus
Movie Review: Closest films to the Word of God out there EXCELLENT!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I have owned the complete set for years and the recent purchase was a gift for our Pastor's B/day. He came back a week later and was so excited over the set we purchased that he inicated a friday family night at our Church to watch each one of the films and he has gone on Amazon to complete his set. The films have top actors playing the roles of the patriarchs of the old testiment and new testiment the screen plays are dynamic and well thought out always considering the WORD OF GOD first and formost to stay as close to the actual story as possible. The costumes and sets are amazing everything takes you to that time in the bible
They are well worth their price in Gold just wish they would do more of them because there are a lot of storys that are missing but am glad for the ones they did produce with such reverence for the WORD of GOD.
Seed of Abraham, Chicago
Movie Review: Scripture based movie collection stays close to the scripture account
Summary: 5 Stars
I teach the Old Testament to a group of high school students every morning at 6:30 am. I used these movies to give them a visual idea of what it might be like to have lived in those days. This series stays very close to the actual scriptural accounts, e.g., Aaron speakes for Moses, because Moses is slow of speach. I had my students read the scriptural account and then give a critical review - What is in the Bible that is not in the movie and vice versa. They loved the experience and noted that in the account of Moses they left out the plague of flies and the fact that there were hundreds of thousands that left Egypt not just hundreds but the kids understood budget contraints. All in all excellent series.