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Bible Hunters
2014 · TV series · documentary · 60 min episodes · 1 season
Documentary telling the stories of the men and women who travelled across Egypt to uncover the earliest Christian texts.
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Thank you very much for this post. I've got some new reading to do!
Interestingly, to me, is that Ethiopian history and religion has long been revered by Rastafarians. To the extent that Damian Marley added Amharic subtitles to some of his music videos [0].
If you are a scholar you may be interested in the documentary Bible Hunters [1] which I thoroughly enjoyed when it was first released.
[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=ebfeumBDymc
[1] https://imdb.com/title/tt3552332/
You might enjoy these two Smithsonian films about the discoveries of lost Christian texts in the 19th century.
https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/details/series/bible-hunters
One of the best stories on finding of lost books are those of the people who went searching for ancient bibles and apocrypha. What they found shed an unexpected light on the history of the religion. I recommend the Smithsonian documentary on the subject [1]
[1] https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/bible-hunters/1003347