This is a comercially produced TV series for a channel that has as much to do with “history” as most reality shows have to do with reality.

And the modern “Biblical” approach to anything from politics to lawmaking, economics or history itself is not about reading or studying the Bible and Biblical scholarhip, coming to conclusions about what it might mean. It is about finding a passage in the Bible which, when re-interpreted or taken out of context, supports one’s pre-established point of view.