The Naked Archaeologist was a television show originally produced for VisionTV in Canada that was hosted and prepared by the Emmy Award-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici. The show ultimately reviewed Biblical stories, then tried to find proof for them by exploring the holy lands looking for archaeological evidence, personal inferences, deductions, and interviews which sometimes included scholars. Subsequent to its original run, it has been car...
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The Naked Archaeologist was a television show originally produced for VisionTV in Canada that was hosted and prepared by the Emmy Award-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici. The show ultimately reviewed Biblical stories, then tried to find proof for them by exploring the holy lands looking for archaeological evidence, personal inferences, deductions, and interviews which sometimes included scholars. Subsequent to its original run, it has been carried in the U.S. on The History Channel and its sister network, History International.
In this episode, Jacobovici makes the argument that Hebrew slaves invented the Proto-Sinaitic script, the first known consonantory script. He claims a connection between a possible reference to El at Wadi el-Hol and the God worshiped by the ancient Israelites. The El name was also used by other Semitic peoples and can be a Proto-Semitic root that simply means "a god" as opposed to any specific deity.
He also claims that the script found at Serabit el-Khadim...
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