The ''Bible Collection'' is a series of films produced for the
TNT
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television network, starting with ''
Abraham
Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblical), covenanta ...
'' in April 1994 and ending with ''Thomas'' in April 2001. The
Bible
The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally writt ...
Collection consists of a 27-part
miniseries
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in 17 volumes.
The series grew out of an earlier series of
Old Testament
The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Isr ...
films produced by the Italian company
Five Mile River Films in the 1990s.
Films
The films, originally aired as standalone television movies or as short miniseries, have been gathered and released in a numbered collection, with the secondary series title ''Close to Jesus'' on installments covering events during the lifetime of Jesus. The order of the collection may vary slightly from the order in which the films were originally produced.
See also
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List of films based on the Bible
This is a list of movies (including television movies) based on the Bible (Old Testament and New Testament), depicting characters or figures from the Bible, or broadly derived from the revelations or interpretations therein.
Hebrew Bible
Gene ...
References
Print sources
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Bible
The Bible is a collection of religious texts that are central to Christianity and Judaism, and esteemed in other Abrahamic religions such as Islam. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally writt ...
Films about Christianity
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