Ark of the Covenant: The Bible’s Origins (2021)

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.

Producers	ARTE, Cinephil, Gedeon Programmes, KAN: Israeli Public Broadcasting
Original title	L’Arche d’Alliance, aux origines de la Bible
Directors	Thierry Ragobert
Writers	Michel Abescat, Fabrice Gerardi, Marie Thiry, Thierry Ragobert

Cast

Anne Cardona

as Self - Narrator (voice)

Israël Filkenstein

as Self - Archeologist

Thomas Römer

as Self - Biblist

Matthew J. Adams

as Self - Archeologist

Christophe Nicolle

as Self - Archeologist

Amotz Agnon

as Self - Geophysicist

Yaniv Darvasi

as Self - Geophysicist

Marie de l'Arche

as Self - Nun

Margaret Cohen

as Self - Archeologist

Naomi Porat

as Self - Geologist

Tatiana Meltsen

as Self - Draftswoman

Noam Mizrahi

as Self - Researcher

Pnina Shor

as Self - Qumran Scrolls Curator

Scott Stripling

as Self - Archeologist

Alexander Fantalkin

as Self - Archeologist

Zvi Lederman

as Self - Archeologist

Eythan Levy

as Self - Archeologist

Lidar Sapir-Hen

as Self - Archaeozoologist

Lionel Marti

as Self - Antiquities Curator

Ariane Thomas

as Self - Archeologist

Eran Arié

as Self - Antiquities Curator

Anal Mendel-Gabrovitch

as Self - Epigraphist

Shira Faigenbaum-Golovin

as Self - Mathematician

Eliazer Piasetzky

as Self - Physicist