Exile

Description

This program focuses on Joseph's exile in Egypt and explores the issues of national and spiritual exile, assimilation, coming of age, and the dilemma of beauty. "A person who has a yearning for the spirit feels like an exile in this world, no matter how much he serves it," says Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr in this program. Also featured are theologian Dianne Bergant; author and scholar Norman Cohen; biblical studies scholar Francisco Garcia-Treto; P. K. McCary, author of Black Bible Chronicles; sacred literature expert Phyllis Trible; and Rabbi Burton Visotzky.

Runtime

60 min

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Date of Publication

[2013], c1996

Database

Films on Demand

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