{"id":45236,"date":"2020-05-10T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T07:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=45236"},"modified":"2026-03-21T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T19:31:39","slug":"jacobovici-simcha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/jacobovici-simcha\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacobovici, Simcha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Simcha<\/strong> J<\/strong>acobovici<\/strong> (1953- ) <\/strong>is an Israeli-born film director and producer as well as a best-selling \"\"<\/a>author. One of his more controversial books was The Jesus<\/em> Family Tomb <\/em>[<\/sup>1709<\/sup>]<\/sup>, co-authored with Charles Pellegrino<\/a>. Jacobovici subsequently directed a documentary, The Lost Tomb of Jesus,<\/em> with James Cameron <\/a>as executive producer.<\/p>\n

Following in the footsteps of Dan Brown, Jacobovici (with Barrie Wilson) published The Lost Gospel<\/em> [1931<\/a>]<\/sup> in which they recycle an old claim that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had two children with her.<\/p>\n

The Jacobvici-Cameron collaboration goes back further to 2006 when they worked on The Exodus Decoded, <\/em>a two-hour documentary in which, among other matters, it claims that the biblical Exodus<\/a> took place a couple of hundred years before the generally accepted date(c)<\/sup>. A review in\u00a0The Jerusalem Post<\/em> noted that none of the arguments made in the film were accepted by mainstream archaeology and that Jacobovici freely admitted his lack of academic credentials.<\/p>\n

Cameron also joined Jacobovici on the 2017 National Geographic<\/a> documentary, Atlantis Rising<\/em>. The documentary did not produce anything of substance, despite a lot of pre-broadcast hype. During the programme, Jacobovici threw in the extraordinary claim that the Jewish menorah represents the concentric circles <\/a>of the Atlantean capital cut in half(b)<\/sup>, a daft idea, already suggested by Prof. Yahya Ababni(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

A 2011 article(d)<\/sup> \u00a0in The Jerusalem Post <\/em>reported that according to Jacobovici, \u201cit is generally acknowledged that the Biblical Tarshish<\/a> is what the historians call Tartessos, which was in southern Spain. In the Tanach, Tarshish is a great city with a huge navy, with silver and gold. Jonah sails towards Tarshish. Solomon has naval expeditions with Tarshish. Tarshish disappears from the Biblical record. Tartessos disappears from the historical record.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Says Jacobovici, \u201cTarshish is Atlantis itself<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(a) <\/sup> https:\/\/mosestablet.info\/en\/menorah-tablet.html<\/a><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2017\/5\/5\/1659107\/-Descendants-of-Lost-Atlantis-may-be-wait-for-it-Jews<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20240806125518\/https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-features\/documentary-sets-new-date-for-exodus<\/a><\/p>\n

(d)<\/sup> http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210902090510\/https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/jewish-world\/jewish-news\/the-deepest-jewish-encampment<\/a>
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