Richie Johns, who runs the Nashville Christian production company Studio 523 with his wife Bethany, isn’t surprised that people mistakenly think his new documentary-style sitcom about Moses and the Israelites in the wilderness is written by Jews.

“Comedy is naturally unifying,” he told JNS. “The reason it feels Jewish is because it’s informed by the Torah.”

“The Promised Land,” which streams on YouTube and is available on Angel Studios, is “coming from the Israelites leaving Egypt, wandering through the wilderness, getting to the edge of the promised land and then being forced to wander,” Johns said.

“We’re not trying to pretend to be anything that we aren’t,” he told JNS.

Johns said some viewers might just know a bit about Moses and the Ten Commandments. But “the more you know, the

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