Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins backdrop

Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins 2021 Directed by Thierry Ragobert L’Arche d’Alliance, aux origines de la Bible

In Israel, a joint French-Israeli scientific mission is set to unearth the secrets of the hill of Kiryath-Jearim (or Kiryat Ya’arim), converted to the site of a Catholic convent, where, according to the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was kept for at least twenty years before being brought to Jerusalem by King David, father of King Solomon, who would eventually build the Holy of Holies inside the First Temple to house it.

Country France
Production Countries France , Israel
Language French
Spoken Languages English , French , Hebrew
Gneres Documentary , History
Production Companies ARTE , Gedeon Programmes , Kan , Cinephil
Release Date 2 January 2021
90 mins
Cast
Anne Cardona Self - Narrator (voice)
Israël Filkenstein Self - Archeologist
Thomas Römer Self - Biblist
Matthew J. Adams Self - Archeologist
Christophe Nicolle Self - Archeologist
Amotz Agnon Self - Geophysicist
Yaniv Darvasi Self - Geophysicist
Marie de l'Arche Self - Nun
Margaret Cohen Self - Archeologist
Naomi Porat Self - Geologist
Tatiana Meltsen Self - Draftswoman
Noam Mizrahi Self - Researcher
Pnina Shor Self - Qumran Scrolls Curator
Scott Stripling Self - Archeologist
Alexander Fantalkin Self - Archeologist
Zvi Lederman Self - Archeologist
Eythan Levy Self - Archeologist
Lidar Sapir-Hen Self - Archaeozoologist
Lionel Marti Self - Antiquities Curator
Ariane Thomas Self - Archeologist
Eran Arié Self - Antiquities Curator
Anal Mendel-Gabrovitch Self - Epigraphist
Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin Self - Mathematician
Eliazer Piasetzky Self - Physicist