February 27, 2007 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States …. [Hope Channel/ANN Staff]
The Seventh Day: Revelations from the Lost Pages of History, a five-part documentary series tracing the history of the Seventh-day Sabbath from Jesus' revolutionary teachings to the Sabbath-keeping Taiping revolutionaries of 19th-Centruy China, will air on the Seventh-day Adventist church's official television network, Hope Channel, beginning April 6, 2007.
Produced by northern California-based LLT Productions, The Seventh Day is hosted by Hal Holbrook and features interviews with some 50 scholars from Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox and Christian communities.
Even though the series' belief-confirming historical angle is appreciated by Adventists, writer and associate producer Jim Wood says he and others on the project have the general television audience in mind.
“The Seventh Day is designed to raise questions in the minds of people who have always taken for granted that Sunday is the Biblical Sabbath.”
Much of the material on The Seventh Day is based on extensive research by the late James Arrabito, who spent three years traveling the world to trace evidence of historic Sabbath-keeping.
For The Seventh Day broadcast times, visit www.hopetv.org. To learn more about the series, visit www.the7thday.org.
