This is one of those series that get hit from both sides.

It radicalizes and polarizes both sides on the political spectrum, and the religious spectrum and draws hatred from the fanatics on both sides.

If you read the reviews:

The far right uber-religious are crying about how Biblically inaccurate this is...and that means that they missed the "mini-series" part of production. Really, how are you going to make it accurate to the Bible and watchable for the general public?

I used to work in history and that was a HUGE pet peeve of mine. "Saving Private Ryan would have been good but th... read the rest.

I've just finished watching this series and knowing a little of the bible, and by no means enough, I think it was an interesting watch and with it being only 45 minutes per episode was not overly long and heavy, in fact I managed to watch a few of the ten episodes back to back

As for the accuracy, I cannot speak to that as this is not a subject that I am expert on but as far as entertainment this was a must watch for this era and an insight as to the "goings on" in that age. I have actually added it to my "watch again" list as I did find it very good.