on one side, mulnar noticed the astrological sign for aries, which stood for judea in ancient astrology the other side was the god jupiter. >> when i came across the coin that showed me that aries the ram was the sign of the jews, and i asked myself, well, what event would have happened in aries the ram? >> so, armed with the computer and charts of the ancient heavens, mulnar started plotting the course of jupiter in the constellation of aries around the time of jesus' birth. and he suddenly hit the mother of all celestial alignments. >> according to the beliefs of 2,000 years ago, if you have the sun, jupiter and moon, accompanied by saturn in the sign of aries the ram, this created the conditions for the birth of a divine and immortal person. >> if there was a star in the east, that would have been it. just when, exactly, did this star appear? mulnar did some more calculations. >> the computer came back with only one answer. it said it happened only once in aries the ram. that was april 17th, 6 b.c. >> christmas in april? jesus born six years before we thought? it's likely true, since

nowhere more so than in the province of judea on the far edge of the mediterranean. its capital, the holy city of jerusalem, is teeming with pilgrims for the springtime feast of passover. many of them looking for an earthly key, a messiah who will deliver them from the yoke of roman oppression. into this powder keg walks jesus of nazareth. his protests against the romans make him a popular hero. to some, he is the messiah. but to the romans, he's political trouble, so they crucify him. the followers of jesus believed that he has risen from the dead and will soon usher in the kingdom of heaven, but when and how will this new faith survive -- after jesus? today, more than 2 billion people call themselves christians, people who believe jesus rose from the dead. but perhaps it's a miracle that christianity did not disappear when the romans crucified jesus on a lonely hill outside jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. >> this region, jerusalem and judea, represented an important land bridge between syria and egypt. so throughout history, this has been a critical place. >> jer

. >>> un hombre que cambiÓ y que fluyÓ provoco un movimiento social y religioso en judea, en la Épocaombre transformarÍa la cultura, y la ciencia, y jesÚs el hijo de dios como lo ve la cuarta parte del planeta venÍa a cumplir las promesas de salvaciÓn y liberaciÓn a los hombres y mujeres de la tierra. >>> viene a cambiar algo muy importante, y son las relaciones entre los seres humanos, y la relaciÓn con la creacion. >>> es una relaciÓn que debe seÑor una relaciÓn de amor, y pone el amor en el centro de las relaciones humanas. >>> es el gran cambio y aparte deje sus. >>> segÚn la doctrina cristiana la celebraciÓn del nacimiento de jesÚs es muy importante, alegrÍa, y solo cuando los hombres y mujeres del planeta reconocen que hay esperanza en el genero humano, porque dios se hace hombre en medio de su creaciÓn. >>> me parece que el hecho mismo que no se hable en la navidad de la venÍ de jesÚs se hace hincapiÉ en santa claus, y en los regalos, en todo que se ha hecho alrededor, se pierde la dimensiÓn profunda que es la de la experiencia de mirar en profundo quÉ fue lo que jesÚs nos vino

after a life of wandering through the hills and villages of galilee and judea, preaching and healing, jesus was betrayed, arrested, and brutally put to death. woman: jesus' death on the cross was hugely difficult for the early christians. it was extremely embarrassing to say that they were followers of a leader who had been crucified. but in the years after his crucifixion, jesus' story was written down by his followers to explain his extraordinary life and death. these four gospels would later form a major part of the christian bible and enable his message to be spread all over the world. woman: it's just extraordinary to come here now and see these crowds who come from all over the world, still being drawn by the power of that moment that would change everything. man: this is a very exciting find. we have people who are still so skeptical that they claim there's no nazareth in the first century. but for hundreds of years, scholars have been trying to look behind the jesus of the gospels, the divine christ of faith, to uncover the historical figure, a mediterranean jew who lived and

and then the civilization is that it's not so much the work ethic is the word ethics and that has judea's on which is another religion of the word, so i think that is as good an answer on can give to that question. i come from scotland which has a curious history in this regard and something that might dilute to in the book. if you had gone to scotland early in my story say in the late 16th or early 17th century when they were really taking control, and when i imagine it was rather like tehran who not long after the islamic revolution it was a theo craddock and tolerant of other all all of society to be a part of with the intolerance of even having offended in any shape or form or amazingly high this was an extreme case of puritanism come and get in that same city within a century we have one of the greatest flood warnings that the secular nist thinking enlightenment - produces adam smith and all of his contemporaries with the greatest generation of intellectuals the west has ever seen. something extraordinary happened which bought it from its theocratic and tolerant face to douse a link

yourself, am i going to take a risk of presiding over the second holocaust, virtually the end of judea's and on the planet? they are not going to take the risk. you call the president and say i have these choices. if you will help me i will go conventional. if you did not help me i am using as many nuclear missiles i will need to take out the iranians. you need to decide whether you sat to one side or will you help me. but i will not do is i will not corral -- not allow israel to be subject to the threat of a holocaust. i agree with the governor, this is a not very far down the right decision. my first official meeting with a foreign leader after i became speaker, i was not yet sworn in, and speaker foley said the prime minister rabin coming to the states, would i see him? we sat down and a former chief of staff said to me, iran is an existential threat to israel and cannot deal with it by ourselves. it is too big. the reason i'm trying to reach a deal with the palestinians is to clear the space to focus on air around. -- iran. that was 17 years ago, and we have still not clear the space