3:27 in Hebrew (classical, medieval, and modern) it's customary to speak of someone being "of" the place where they currently live, not where they were born. Many historic Jewish figures are named after places where they lived for only a short while before their deaths. It also makes asking people where they grew up very difficult for a native English speaker.
This is only tangentially related, but this makes me think of my hometown, Bethlehem, PA. It is known as "The Christmas City", as the town leans heavily into their namesake. Around this time of year, you can't go three steps without seeing a representation of the star that the Three Wise Men followed. And I've never lived anywhere where people go as hard with Christmas lights. When I was a kid, one of things my family (and many families) did was drive through the neighborhoods, just looking at all the lights.
That sounds beautiful asf I live in a town (and a country) where basically Black Friday is celebrated more than Christmas or Halloween, so you never ever get to see Christmas decorations around town (and good luck if you wanna celebrate Halloween or Easter lmao), this time of the year is extremely boring and lame here when you think of it and it doesn't seem to be getting any better, so I get really happy and excited when people in other countries just fill their towns with as many lights and Christmas stuff as they can get xD
I got an idea for a Name Explain video for all the names for Christmas in many languages. In Polish, Christmas is "Boże Narodzenie" which means "Godly/Holy Birth". Other names for Christmas are "Gwiazdka" ("Small Star") and just "Święta" ("Holiday"). The latter being the name I thought as a kid to be the Polish name for Christmas and I assume for many people thought that too because Marry Christmas in Polish is "Wesołych Świąt" ("Happy Holidays")
In german it means "Weihnachten". This is a very old fashioned way to say it but it is supposed to mean: "on the blessèd nights" or "on the consecrated nights"
thumb up from me (a person who lives in the region right now) 😄 By the way, there is another Bethlehem in Galilee and there is a version that he was born in this Bethlehem, not the one in Judea
Exactly. It is not known where he exactly was born, but we do know that he wasn't born in Bethlehem, and in addition, that he probably was born in Galilee Bethlehem.
No, we do not know that Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem of Judah. Historically, there's no way to tell if he was or not. It's clear that Matthew and Luke meant Bethlehem of Judah. If you do not believe in their account, then you are left with no sure birthplace, since they are the only sources on the subject. There's not a shred of evidence that he was born in Bethlehem of Galilee, except that the two towns bear the same name, which is rather weak. If you do not trust the Evangelists when they say that Jesus was born in Judah, why would you trust them that he was born in Galilee instead, in that kind of ersatz of Bethlehem? It would be more logical and simpler to suppose Jesus was born in Nazareth, since it is where he lived most of his life.
There is a theory that they may have been from Bethlehem in the Galilee and that the journey was actually shorter. When the area was incorporated into Judea a lot of people from the south establishing new towns named them after other towns in the south, there is a Galilean Bethlehem, so it’s not impossible
@@Simon-1965 As much as I think the bible has fundamental truths in it, alas Matthew does seem to make the events fit the wording of the prophecies he had to hand, rather than being any reasonably historical biography of a Jewish Teacher / Rabbi.
i'm pretty sure historians already deciphered that the stable wasn't actually a stable and it was a bad translation, and what actually might've happened is mary and joseph perhaps had a relative or acquaintance they asked if they could spend the night, not some type of inn, but he had no spare rooms, so he offered them the shed
there are several glaring errors in the nativity story. citizens of the Roman empire did not have to travel back to their hometown, they were being taxed on their property, i.e. the land they owned, where they lived. secondly, a census in Palestine wasn't held until 6 CE at the earliest, 2 years after Herod had died.
Some historians believe that Jesus wasn't really born in Bethlehem, rather in Bethlehem of Galilee, which is right by Nazareth. Lots of places in Galilee were named after cities in Judea proper, and it makes a lot more sense for Jesus to be born there than all the way down in Judea.
It does not on a theological level though. And both Evangelists were writing as believers trying to convince their readers that Jesus is the Messiah, not as historians merely chronicling facts. As the Messiah, it makes much more sense if Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judah, the birthplace of King David. Note that Matthew begins his version of the Nativity story in Bethlehem, not in Nazareth. The Holy Family only ends up in Nazareth after they return from their exile in Egypt because Joseph did not trust Archelaus, Herod's successor in Judea. The "Bethlehem of Galilee" hypothesis does not have much more evidence than Bethlehem of Judah. On a historical perspective, it would be more prudent to say that the Gospels claim Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judah, but we can't know for sure.
Me and my family have always put out a Nativity scene ever since I could remember, even my grandparents put out one every year during this time. I’ve never wanted to know what the names of these words meant, but now I do as an adult, so this was fascinating!
No, people didn't have to return to their birthplaces to be counted in a Roman census. The author of Luke invented that to make his character fit into his reading of older texts.
I suspect it is not impossible that Mary possibly was trying to maybe visit HER parents or Family- not impossible as I have seen pregnant women in victorian times making long journeys back to mum for a birth. (though given her sister lived around Gailee - as the mother of John the Baptist) a short Journey might be more probable.
@@highpath4776 Well, it's fiction, so many things are possible in that respect, but the attempts by the author to tie the story into real-world events fail.
Didn't want to try to pronounce the Hebrew words for house and bread? Even in modern Hebrew, the words for house and bread are essentially the same as the name of the town.
You can also find both of those towns in southeastern Pennsylvania, and if that weren't enough, there is also a town called "Emmaus" which is also a Biblical reference
just to make it clearer... The kingdom of Judah was an independent kingdom when the Romans conquered it in about 70 bce. So the province of Judea was named after the ethnic people that lived there, Judeans (or Jews). It was more central to the formation of the Jewish nationality. The Jewish religion however had roots in the earlier local religions.
Bethlehem comes from lehem, the Canaanite word for bread. I'm guessing the city was a grain growing region in bronze age times, probably supplying Jerusalem. Though there is this theory going around that "lehem", pronounced differently, instead refers to a Canaanite fertility deity. But there doesn't seem to be a ton of evidence for that. Interestingly, the Arabic name for the city, Bayt Laḥm, translates to "House of Meat". With sheppards mentioned in the bible, I think you can probably guess why. It seems the modern city is still known for its food products. Though tourism is its main industry.
Hebrew "lehem" and arabic "lahm" are false friends with a similar origin. The word probably originally referred to food in general (a meaning still existing in the bible) and then evolved to the staple food. Fun fact, the same evolution happened with english "meat"... In addition: the root "laḥm" gave turn to the verbs "fight" (and in turn "war") and "stick, weld" in hebrew...
I'm impressed by the lack of political and national bickering you have achieved, especially being an English man and sharing this type of fare with us so thanks again and best wishes 🙏
It would be fitting if the shepherds were called Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, Dan, Zebulun, Asher, Nephtali, Gad and Benjamin...
The term "Magi' refers to the priestly class of the Zoroastrian faith. Not sure that's what they called themselves, but the term was established in Greek by Herodotus. Later tradition mapped the Three Kings onto what folks at that time considered the three continents and three racial groups, so one King is northern European, another is East African, and the third is vaguely Asian pretty far east of Mesopotamia, maybe farther than Iran. Even later on the Africans were mapped on to the Children of Ham which justified slavery. This is pretty stupid since none of the places Ham moved to in Genesis were in Africa. It's also silly because Paul stated that there are no racial or cultural distinctions in the Christian community.
@@Bacopa68 You said that "none of the places Ham moved to in Genesis were in Africa" Ham's son Mizraim or Egypt in some translations (seeing as Mizraim means Egypt) would thus have lived in Africa. His son Cush is traditionally thought to refer to Kush south of Egypt as well, which is also in Africa.
My thoughts on the shepherds not being named: Don't forget that the bible was passed along and translated for centuries through the middle ages. During the middle ages shepherds were considered peasants and the lowest rung of society. My last name is Blankenship, whichvis derived from the British Blinkensop. The -sop suffix is pronounced "ship," and I've been told it means sheepherder. Basically my ancestors were serfs, shepherds tied to the land. Even if the shepherds had names at some point in the past, I can easily see why the various chroniclers would have "forgotten" them, but still remembered the names of "noble" Wise Men.
But King David was a sheep herder too (and goats). so in a way it show both poor and rich are equal when kneeling before God (as represented in human flesh in this narrative)
I really get annoyed when people call the Torah “the Hebrew Bible”. The Torah and other works are part of the Old Testament, while the Bible contains both the Old and New Testaments. The Torah is technically part of the Bible, but that does not mean it is the “Hebrew Bible”.
people also refer to the quran as the islamic bible. it's basically christian centric behavior to assert christianity as the one religion and make other religion seem lesser than, or just copies. i'm sure religious texts in other cultures are also referred to by christians as the bible of that religion. but you bet your ass that if someone said the bible was the christian torah, you'd have a bunch of hyper religious americans sending you death threats
The journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem was a lot farther than 70 miles, as between Nazareth and Bethlehem was the region of Samaria. The Samaritans were hated by the Jews so much that Jews would travel across the Jordan River and make a wide arch around Samaria so they wouldn't have to even set foot in the region. Thus, it likely stood Mary and Joseph at least a month to get to Bethlehem.
While I'm not going to complain a lot about the etymologies presented in this video, there's certainly some serious issues with the chronology and story presented. You mix the two accounts of Jesus' birth, as if they're part of the same story, when in reality, they're two completely independent and different accounts with close to nothing in common. They tell wildly different stories, with the only thing they have in common is Jesus being born in Bethlehem and ending up in Nazareth afterwards. According to Matthew: Jesus was born sometime before 4BC in the Roman client state of Judea, ruled by Herod. Jesus family were natives of Bethlehem. After Jesus' birth, Herod tried to have all the children in Bethlehem killed, so Jesus family flees to Egypt where they stay until Herod's death. They were then about to return to their home in Bethlehem, but because Herod's son Archelaus had inherited Judea after his father, they didn't dare to, and instead moved to Galilee, to the town of Nazareth. According to Luke: Jesus family were natives of Nazareth, but because of the nonsensical census in 6CE, they had to travel to Bethlehem. While there, the family stays at an inn/stable/cave (the main point being it's not their house), Jesus is born and the family stays in Bethlehem for a week, because according to Leviticus 12, a woman remains impure for a week after childbirth. After this week, they traveled to Jerusalem to have their firstborn "consecrated to the Lord". After this, the finally returned to their homes in Nazareth There are way more details which differ between the versions as well, such as the angel visits, Wise men, shepherds etc. I just tried to keep it short and point out the major differences between the two stories. The bottom-line is that these are two completely different stories, both constructed to explain how Jesus of Nazareth, would have been born in Bethlehem.
Matthew , writing for the Jews , Luke , writing for Gentiles/Romans. Mark of course does not bother with the birrh, getting in on the teaching action, and John has the divinity of Jesus as the key pin around his reports of miracles, signs, parables and teaching of Jesus
Jesus wasn’t born in a stable - at least, that isn’t in the text. He was just laid in a manger. He was born in the equivalent of the kitchen of a house, which also included animals. The word inn is a mistranslation. Also, he was considered to be from Nazareth because he was raised there from toddlerhood and his family was from there. He spoken with a Galilean accent. He just happened to be born elsewhere. Most people consider themselves to be native to where they were raised, not where they were born. (And before anyone comes at me with him not being real, this all checks out for him being a fictional character as well whose background is being analyzed. And yes, he was real, though anything about his birth is not historically substantiated other than he was from Nazareth.)
According to the gospel of Luke, he was from Nazareth, but according to the Gospel of Matthew, they had no prior connection to Nazareth when moving there.
@@BurnBird1 And Mark and John don't mention where he was born at all and call him a Galilean from Nazareth. Therefore, it is more likely that Matthew simply didn't mention where Joseph and Mary were from.
@@katherinegilks3880 no, the definitely were Bethlehem natives in Matthew's gospel. They even try to return to Bethlehem after Herod's death. If they didn't live in Bethlehem, then why would they try to return? Why would they have to "withdraw" to Galilee?
@@BurnBird1 Yes, that is what is being implied (assuming it isn't a translation issue) in Matthew, but that does not mean that was what the author intended. Either way, that doesn't change that Jesus was a Galilean according to everyone who met him. He lived there at least from young childhood and never corrected anyone when they called him such, even though that might have been to his advantage. He had a Galilean accent. People from Nazareth considered him to be from there. It really doesn't matter where Joseph and Mary were from. The nativity narratives are really just prologues to the main narratives.
@@katherinegilks3880 The point is that, both Luke and Matthew tried to explain how, a man from Nazareth, was actually born in Bethlehem, like the Messiah is supposed to be. They both invent two different stories to explain away this discrepancy.
Ask the indigenous people, the jews, bc we friggin named these areas. Nazareth refers to a nazir, a jew that abstains from drinking alcohol and cutting their hair like Samson.
@@highpath4776 Nazarene, which is what Jesus is called... In hebrew there's a difference though. "Notzri" is a Christian, while "Nazrathi" is someone from that city...
This video is great and all, but there's one problem: "Israel" doesn't exist as it's a settler-colony that has been established through the colonization of Palestinian lands. Nazareth and Bethlehem are Palestinian cities.
Israel isn't "Palestinian land" any more than it is "Hmong land" or "Igbo land". Arabs are native to Arabia, they have no claim to Israel. Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. This video literally discusses the region and its indigenous Jewish inhabitants. The names of places in Israel all come from Hebrew because that's the language of the indigenous people, the Jews.
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I don't nowhere to send suggestions for videos but my daughter had one. What are the origins of Santa's reindeers names including Rudolph.
Babylon is not lost to time, it just moved to Long Island
3:27 in Hebrew (classical, medieval, and modern) it's customary to speak of someone being "of" the place where they currently live, not where they were born. Many historic Jewish figures are named after places where they lived for only a short while before their deaths. It also makes asking people where they grew up very difficult for a native English speaker.
I keep encounter you everywhere!
Didn't you say in your video about Jesus that he probably was born around Galilee Bethlehem?
What's the difference between Jesʉs and Aɓu-ʙakr Al-ʙaɠhdadi? Nothing.
Fun fact: 'Christianity' in Hebrew (nats'rut, נצרות) comes from the name of the city of Nazareth (nats'rat, נצרת).
Fun fact, the original malayalam word for Christian was nasrani, and there is a Nazarene in Kerala, India too.
This is only tangentially related, but this makes me think of my hometown, Bethlehem, PA. It is known as "The Christmas City", as the town leans heavily into their namesake. Around this time of year, you can't go three steps without seeing a representation of the star that the Three Wise Men followed. And I've never lived anywhere where people go as hard with Christmas lights. When I was a kid, one of things my family (and many families) did was drive through the neighborhoods, just looking at all the lights.
There's also a town of Nazareth just down the road from Bethlehem, PA.
I've been to Bethlehem, PA and Christmas is very prominent in the city.
That sounds beautiful asf
I live in a town (and a country) where basically Black Friday is celebrated more than Christmas or Halloween, so you never ever get to see Christmas decorations around town (and good luck if you wanna celebrate Halloween or Easter lmao), this time of the year is extremely boring and lame here when you think of it and it doesn't seem to be getting any better, so I get really happy and excited when people in other countries just fill their towns with as many lights and Christmas stuff as they can get xD
I got an idea for a Name Explain video for all the names for Christmas in many languages.
In Polish, Christmas is "Boże Narodzenie" which means "Godly/Holy Birth". Other names for Christmas are "Gwiazdka" ("Small Star") and just "Święta" ("Holiday"). The latter being the name I thought as a kid to be the Polish name for Christmas and I assume for many people thought that too because Marry Christmas in Polish is "Wesołych Świąt" ("Happy Holidays")
In most countries it just means the birth of Jesus or God or Just the birth, so it wouldn't be very interesting. Small star is interesting though.
In german it means "Weihnachten". This is a very old fashioned way to say it but it is supposed to mean: "on the blessèd nights" or "on the consecrated nights"
I've always wondered if our word "munching" is a corruption of "manger"
"... but I am tired and I don't remember..." Brilliant!
thumb up from me (a person who lives in the region right now) 😄
By the way, there is another Bethlehem in Galilee and there is a version that he was born in this Bethlehem, not the one in Judea
Exactly. It is not known where he exactly was born, but we do know that he wasn't born in Bethlehem, and in addition, that he probably was born in Galilee Bethlehem.
No, we do not know that Jesus wasn't born in Bethlehem of Judah. Historically, there's no way to tell if he was or not. It's clear that Matthew and Luke meant Bethlehem of Judah. If you do not believe in their account, then you are left with no sure birthplace, since they are the only sources on the subject. There's not a shred of evidence that he was born in Bethlehem of Galilee, except that the two towns bear the same name, which is rather weak. If you do not trust the Evangelists when they say that Jesus was born in Judah, why would you trust them that he was born in Galilee instead, in that kind of ersatz of Bethlehem? It would be more logical and simpler to suppose Jesus was born in Nazareth, since it is where he lived most of his life.
This is the earliest I’ve ever been
There is a theory that they may have been from Bethlehem in the Galilee and that the journey was actually shorter. When the area was incorporated into Judea a lot of people from the south establishing new towns named them after other towns in the south, there is a Galilean Bethlehem, so it’s not impossible
I understand that there was two towns called Bethlehem, our Lord Jesus Christ was born in the smaller one.
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It is in the Galilee Bethlehem.
@@Simon-1965 Would the smaller one not be Bethlehem in Galilee, rather than the (at the time) more well-established Judean Bethlehem
@@bobmcbob9856 The prophet Isaiah said ' oh little Bethlehem' which suggests the smaller one.
@@Simon-1965 As much as I think the bible has fundamental truths in it, alas Matthew does seem to make the events fit the wording of the prophecies he had to hand, rather than being any reasonably historical biography of a Jewish Teacher / Rabbi.
i'm pretty sure historians already deciphered that the stable wasn't actually a stable and it was a bad translation, and what actually might've happened is mary and joseph perhaps had a relative or acquaintance they asked if they could spend the night, not some type of inn, but he had no spare rooms, so he offered them the shed
there are several glaring errors in the nativity story. citizens of the Roman empire did not have to travel back to their hometown, they were being taxed on their property, i.e. the land they owned, where they lived. secondly, a census in Palestine wasn't held until 6 CE at the earliest, 2 years after Herod had died.
Herod died in 4 BCE, not 8.
2:47 Nazareth isn't the largest in Israel's north, the near Haifa is ~4x it's size :)
Haifa is in it's own district
Some historians believe that Jesus wasn't really born in Bethlehem, rather in Bethlehem of Galilee, which is right by Nazareth. Lots of places in Galilee were named after cities in Judea proper, and it makes a lot more sense for Jesus to be born there than all the way down in Judea.
It does not on a theological level though. And both Evangelists were writing as believers trying to convince their readers that Jesus is the Messiah, not as historians merely chronicling facts. As the Messiah, it makes much more sense if Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judah, the birthplace of King David. Note that Matthew begins his version of the Nativity story in Bethlehem, not in Nazareth. The Holy Family only ends up in Nazareth after they return from their exile in Egypt because Joseph did not trust Archelaus, Herod's successor in Judea. The "Bethlehem of Galilee" hypothesis does not have much more evidence than Bethlehem of Judah. On a historical perspective, it would be more prudent to say that the Gospels claim Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judah, but we can't know for sure.
Me and my family have always put out a Nativity scene ever since I could remember, even my grandparents put out one every year during this time. I’ve never wanted to know what the names of these words meant, but now I do as an adult, so this was fascinating!
great vid!
No, people didn't have to return to their birthplaces to be counted in a Roman census. The author of Luke invented that to make his character fit into his reading of older texts.
I suspect it is not impossible that Mary possibly was trying to maybe visit HER parents or Family- not impossible as I have seen pregnant women in victorian times making long journeys back to mum for a birth. (though given her sister lived around Gailee - as the mother of John the Baptist) a short Journey might be more probable.
@@highpath4776 Well, it's fiction, so many things are possible in that respect, but the attempts by the author to tie the story into real-world events fail.
Didn't want to try to pronounce the Hebrew words for house and bread? Even in modern Hebrew, the words for house and bread are essentially the same as the name of the town.
Great names for the Shepherds might include Ewewin and Vincent van Goat
I have journeyed from Nazareth to Bethlehem before, both of them are in Wales didn't you know?
Oh I forgot, the Shepherds names, something like Dai, Twm, Rhodri and Rhys
You can also find both of those towns in southeastern Pennsylvania, and if that weren't enough, there is also a town called "Emmaus" which is also a Biblical reference
just to make it clearer... The kingdom of Judah was an independent kingdom when the Romans conquered it in about 70 bce. So the province of Judea was named after the ethnic people that lived there, Judeans (or Jews).
It was more central to the formation of the Jewish nationality. The Jewish religion however had roots in the earlier local religions.
*It refers to Galilee Bethlehem, not Bethlehem!*
Well, one would suspect they were Persian. They were Magi, priests of Zoroastrianism. Though there are Parsi in India, so there's range.
Bethlehem comes from lehem, the Canaanite word for bread. I'm guessing the city was a grain growing region in bronze age times, probably supplying Jerusalem. Though there is this theory going around that "lehem", pronounced differently, instead refers to a Canaanite fertility deity. But there doesn't seem to be a ton of evidence for that. Interestingly, the Arabic name for the city, Bayt Laḥm, translates to "House of Meat". With sheppards mentioned in the bible, I think you can probably guess why. It seems the modern city is still known for its food products. Though tourism is its main industry.
Hebrew "lehem" and arabic "lahm" are false friends with a similar origin. The word probably originally referred to food in general (a meaning still existing in the bible) and then evolved to the staple food. Fun fact, the same evolution happened with english "meat"...
In addition: the root "laḥm" gave turn to the verbs "fight" (and in turn "war") and "stick, weld" in hebrew...
I'm impressed by the lack of political and national bickering you have achieved, especially being an English man and sharing this type of fare with us so thanks again and best wishes 🙏
4:16 Galilee means "cylinder" in Hebrew, and yes it means nothing. It is in itself a mispronounced "Jabel", the Arabic word for "region"
Lol it's not "mispronounced Arabic", it's a Hebrew word. Arabic didn't exist until about 1500 years ago.
The Spanish name for Bethlehem: "Belén", has a also become a popular girl's name.
The Shepards' names are Shep and Perd.
Can you do the meaning of the names of ancient empires?
The shepherds were named Rosenkrantz and Guilderstein.
It would be fitting if the shepherds were called Reuben, Simeon, Judah, Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, Dan, Zebulun, Asher, Nephtali, Gad and Benjamin...
That'd be amazing
The term "Magi' refers to the priestly class of the Zoroastrian faith. Not sure that's what they called themselves, but the term was established in Greek by Herodotus.
Later tradition mapped the Three Kings onto what folks at that time considered the three continents and three racial groups, so one King is northern European, another is East African, and the third is vaguely Asian pretty far east of Mesopotamia, maybe farther than Iran. Even later on the Africans were mapped on to the Children of Ham which justified slavery. This is pretty stupid since none of the places Ham moved to in Genesis were in Africa.
It's also silly because Paul stated that there are no racial or cultural distinctions in the Christian community.
Egypt isn't in Africa?
@@BurnBird1 It is, but Iran isn't.
@@Bacopa68 You said that "none of the places Ham moved to in Genesis were in Africa" Ham's son Mizraim or Egypt in some translations (seeing as Mizraim means Egypt) would thus have lived in Africa. His son Cush is traditionally thought to refer to Kush south of Egypt as well, which is also in Africa.
My thoughts on the shepherds not being named: Don't forget that the bible was passed along and translated for centuries through the middle ages. During the middle ages shepherds were considered peasants and the lowest rung of society. My last name is Blankenship, whichvis derived from the British Blinkensop. The -sop suffix is pronounced "ship," and I've been told it means sheepherder. Basically my ancestors were serfs, shepherds tied to the land.
Even if the shepherds had names at some point in the past, I can easily see why the various chroniclers would have "forgotten" them, but still remembered the names of "noble" Wise Men.
But King David was a sheep herder too (and goats). so in a way it show both poor and rich are equal when kneeling before God (as represented in human flesh in this narrative)
Jacob, who gained the name Israel after wrestling with an angel, is the progenitor of the people of Israel.
Yessir the grandson of Father Abraham.
7:30
Note: there are two Bethlehems in Israel, Ando be of them is in the Gallillee area 🙃
Bethlehem of Galilee, not far away from Nazareth, is probably the real Bethlehem of that story.
I really get annoyed when people call the Torah “the Hebrew Bible”. The Torah and other works are part of the Old Testament, while the Bible contains both the Old and New Testaments. The Torah is technically part of the Bible, but that does not mean it is the “Hebrew Bible”.
people also refer to the quran as the islamic bible. it's basically christian centric behavior to assert christianity as the one religion and make other religion seem lesser than, or just copies. i'm sure religious texts in other cultures are also referred to by christians as the bible of that religion. but you bet your ass that if someone said the bible was the christian torah, you'd have a bunch of hyper religious americans sending you death threats
@@Ray_Vun the Bible is basically the continuation of the Torah.
Wrong. Nazareth is next to Eke.
Nazareth... that's a good band.
I must say, it sounds strange to hear the terms "Galilee" and "Judea" outside a Viced Rhino video.
The journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem was a lot farther than 70 miles, as between Nazareth and Bethlehem was the region of Samaria. The Samaritans were hated by the Jews so much that Jews would travel across the Jordan River and make a wide arch around Samaria so they wouldn't have to even set foot in the region. Thus, it likely stood Mary and Joseph at least a month to get to Bethlehem.
While I'm not going to complain a lot about the etymologies presented in this video, there's certainly some serious issues with the chronology and story presented. You mix the two accounts of Jesus' birth, as if they're part of the same story, when in reality, they're two completely independent and different accounts with close to nothing in common. They tell wildly different stories, with the only thing they have in common is Jesus being born in Bethlehem and ending up in Nazareth afterwards.
According to Matthew: Jesus was born sometime before 4BC in the Roman client state of Judea, ruled by Herod. Jesus family were natives of Bethlehem. After Jesus' birth, Herod tried to have all the children in Bethlehem killed, so Jesus family flees to Egypt where they stay until Herod's death. They were then about to return to their home in Bethlehem, but because Herod's son Archelaus had inherited Judea after his father, they didn't dare to, and instead moved to Galilee, to the town of Nazareth.
According to Luke: Jesus family were natives of Nazareth, but because of the nonsensical census in 6CE, they had to travel to Bethlehem. While there, the family stays at an inn/stable/cave (the main point being it's not their house), Jesus is born and the family stays in Bethlehem for a week, because according to Leviticus 12, a woman remains impure for a week after childbirth. After this week, they traveled to Jerusalem to have their firstborn "consecrated to the Lord". After this, the finally returned to their homes in Nazareth
There are way more details which differ between the versions as well, such as the angel visits, Wise men, shepherds etc. I just tried to keep it short and point out the major differences between the two stories. The bottom-line is that these are two completely different stories, both constructed to explain how Jesus of Nazareth, would have been born in Bethlehem.
Matthew , writing for the Jews , Luke , writing for Gentiles/Romans. Mark of course does not bother with the birrh, getting in on the teaching action, and John has the divinity of Jesus as the key pin around his reports of miracles, signs, parables and teaching of Jesus
They didn’t travel in a straight line. They bypassed Samaria
Jesus wasn’t born in a stable - at least, that isn’t in the text. He was just laid in a manger. He was born in the equivalent of the kitchen of a house, which also included animals. The word inn is a mistranslation. Also, he was considered to be from Nazareth because he was raised there from toddlerhood and his family was from there. He spoken with a Galilean accent. He just happened to be born elsewhere. Most people consider themselves to be native to where they were raised, not where they were born. (And before anyone comes at me with him not being real, this all checks out for him being a fictional character as well whose background is being analyzed. And yes, he was real, though anything about his birth is not historically substantiated other than he was from Nazareth.)
According to the gospel of Luke, he was from Nazareth, but according to the Gospel of Matthew, they had no prior connection to Nazareth when moving there.
@@BurnBird1 And Mark and John don't mention where he was born at all and call him a Galilean from Nazareth. Therefore, it is more likely that Matthew simply didn't mention where Joseph and Mary were from.
@@katherinegilks3880 no, the definitely were Bethlehem natives in Matthew's gospel. They even try to return to Bethlehem after Herod's death. If they didn't live in Bethlehem, then why would they try to return? Why would they have to "withdraw" to Galilee?
@@BurnBird1 Yes, that is what is being implied (assuming it isn't a translation issue) in Matthew, but that does not mean that was what the author intended. Either way, that doesn't change that Jesus was a Galilean according to everyone who met him. He lived there at least from young childhood and never corrected anyone when they called him such, even though that might have been to his advantage. He had a Galilean accent. People from Nazareth considered him to be from there. It really doesn't matter where Joseph and Mary were from. The nativity narratives are really just prologues to the main narratives.
@@katherinegilks3880 The point is that, both Luke and Matthew tried to explain how, a man from Nazareth, was actually born in Bethlehem, like the Messiah is supposed to be. They both invent two different stories to explain away this discrepancy.
Name the Shepard Jeff
Jesus is a name that was changed a lot. Maybe worth a video
A good name for a Shepherd?.... Commander Shephard.
Ask the indigenous people, the jews, bc we friggin named these areas. Nazareth refers to a nazir, a jew that abstains from drinking alcohol and cutting their hair like Samson.
That's not how it works.
They're not the same letter in hebrew, "Nazareth" is spelled with a tsade, and "nazir" with a zain...
@@adrianblake8876 Thanks, some people do get confused with a Nazarite and a what you would call a person from Nazareth
@@highpath4776 Nazarene, which is what Jesus is called...
In hebrew there's a difference though. "Notzri" is a Christian, while "Nazrathi" is someone from that city...
This video is great and all, but there's one problem: "Israel" doesn't exist as it's a settler-colony that has been established through the colonization of Palestinian lands. Nazareth and Bethlehem are Palestinian cities.
Israel isn't "Palestinian land" any more than it is "Hmong land" or "Igbo land". Arabs are native to Arabia, they have no claim to Israel. Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people. This video literally discusses the region and its indigenous Jewish inhabitants. The names of places in Israel all come from Hebrew because that's the language of the indigenous people, the Jews.