Countries Mentioned in the Bible
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Ever wondered which countries are actually referenced in the Bible? In this video, I'll explore just that, and create a neat new "Bible Accurate" map in the process!
These biblical lands stretch over a massive geographical area. From the rich African Kingdoms of Kush to the exotic maritime ports of ancient Ophir, the biblical writers knew of regions that lay on the periphery of the known world. When used as a historical document, the Bible is a snapshot in time into the surprising world of early trade. Finding real-world locations in the Bible reveals how connected the ancient world was.
Is your country there? If not, should your country be on there? I’d be curious to hear whether the eastern land of Sinim mentioned in Isaiah 49:12, could be a reference to China.
A few notes about the map. When the Bible was written, "countries" as we know them today didn’t even exist. Plus, there’s no one version of it that all Christians can agree on (although that would be nice). I am using the NRSV. What's more, I have taken Scythia to mean Bulgaria and Romania (as in Scythia Minor). I ought to have included Ukraine into this mix too but hey, Scythia has always been notoriously difficult to define! Also, Arabic not Aramaic.
I hope you enjoyed this video, I enjoyed making it. I have an exciting personal milestone this end - I'll be moving into full-time employment! Don't worry, I won't disappear entirely but I will, unfortunately, be uploading less frequently. I am always so grateful for this amazing platform and your amazing viewership over this exciting chapter of my story.
Thank you for 740,000 subscribers, old and new.
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00:00 Intro
00:55 Countries & Bibles
02:17 Asia
08:18 Africa
11:18 Europe
14:28 Conclusion
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List of countries and nations mentioned in the Bible (a bit iffy but a decent start):
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Minor/unidentified biblical places
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love ur videos man !
I will
You really ought to, it's amazing!
how is this from 28 mins ago when the video was 5 mins ago? Hope it was mentioned in the bible
Do a vid on conspiracies concerning the Council of Nicea
“ i’m going to *partially* recognise France”
The most British sentence ever love it
Uh bro
Ok the way he said it was british
@obedotto4465 OP is referring to the millenia-long grudge between France and the UK.
Weirdo
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Romans 3:23
John 3:16
Me, trying to unlock his backstory: "My degree in biblical languages" write that down WRITE THAT DOWN
Great series, the Interruption!
i didn't know that degree even exist lmao
@@akkico live in a commonwealth
@@akkico Most history based degrees are just a way of milking students for tuition money. If you don't go to law school, your only other option with a history degree is becoming a high school teacher.
@@rakijr9176 Assuming you pay for your education and live in a country with no research whatsoever... But history and law don't crossover as far as I can tell; they're separate careers.
It's unfortunate you don't upload anymore, easily one of my favorite channels throughout 2020-2022
What happened to him?
Right
@@nar2cc Moved over to a Podcast.
@@thepatriarchy819 is that permanent? Did he say anything about resuming this channel?
@@lore.keeper I have no clue sadly
We need you man. Please come back.
He became a mason and peaced out 😅
Repent and trust in Jesus. He's the only way to Heaven. We've all sinned and deserve Hell. Sins like lying, lusting, etc. Repent and trust only in Jesus, and you will be saved! You can be saved because he took the punishment for our sins on himself when he died on the cross, just like someone can pay your speeding fine in court, and you get off free.
Romans 3:23
John 3:16❤❤
I've always wondered what a political map of the Bible would look like, thanks for another great video!
If my memory doesn't betray me, the Latin American Bible (a.k.a. "LA Nueva BiBLiA Latinoamérica") had some maps like that.
@@parrata yeah i used to just look at those maps in bible studies as a teen instead of paying attention to class, since i'm a maps and history type of person
@@parrata yeah they like show palestine.. and a photo of a woman eating of of a crudely made pot kitchen
Yeah it's nice but including french antartica because the gauls are mentioned once seems a bit like a stretch right xD
my kjv has a map of where the NT churches were on tje map and a map of roman era judea
In Hebrew we still use the word Hodu (הודו) for India.
In the Old Tenement, the Book of Obadiah mentions the countries of Zarephath (צרפת) and Sepharad (ספרד), which are in Hebrew France and Spain respectively.
Interesting...
So cool!
yo we got a shoutout from the jesus, thanks!
@@AudioMixedVideoAMV nope he said Old Testament lol you get a shout out from god’s old genocide phase from before the eternally unchanging god, changed
@@germanshepherd2701 i mean, any mention is better than none ^^'
i miss this channel
Wasn't gonna drink tonight but damn I'm missing Hochelaga like a mf...
I am a Syrian Christan from souther part of India called Kerala.Syrian Christan community in Kerala is considered as the one of the oldest Christian community in the entire world
Your community has bank call CSB, I have seen it in Mumbai.
@@juliam1395 yes, it was belonged to syrian catholic church, but now it acquired by some other bank.
I had a friend from kerala and he told me that, I asked him "So, when did your family convert?" He looked a bit silly and said "My family always was" and he proceeded to teach me about St. Thomas and the Jacobites.
@@bushspring that's some next level WE WUZZING. they were all converted by portuguese missionaires
you mean syriac christian? i am syriac christian too :p (assyrian from mesopotamia)
I was literally reading the Bible and getting disoriented with all the names and geography so this was a great help honestly!
@@midnightglow104 Been finding faith as Ive grown older so Im going through the stories myself. Im also a culture studies major so I figured I should probably be familiar with the basis of my own culture.
As a geography nut I'm glad there's finally a video that talks about the regions the Bible mentioned.
Having a Bible atlas is helpful to get your bearings on where the locations of the events were.
@@WantSomeWhiskey818 highly reccomend checking out saint thomas aquinas’s work his writing is what convinced me
@@midnightglow104 Bible is just good story bro
please don’t disappear hochelaga! your content is amazing!
Malta is also mentioned and exists until today. Paul casted away and was welcomed for some days by the natives. The rock on which he crashed his boat even has a statue of Paul. The place itself is named St. Paul's Bay (San Pawl Il-Bahar). This can be found on Acts.
didn't it also say that the maltese saw Paul get bitten by a snake, and them saying calmly "oh he's about to die lol" and when he didn't die they immediately thought he was a god?
Why is nobody baffled by how modern Maltese speak a mishmash of Arabic and various European languages, am I the only one that finds that weird?
@@porterhouse937 Its not really that surprising. Because of them being under Arabs for centuries gradually made them speak Arabic. Its the same as the Iberians who have a huge Arabic influence but unlike them the Maltese still kept Arabic but got heavily latinized by the crusaders.
@@BlazingFlame69 No I understand, my point is that no one seems to talk about it, up until a couple of years ago I presumed the Maltese were generic Europeans with some variation of the Mediterranean languages, but they're a very unique mixture, culturally, linguistically and genetically.
"And Portugal too, if your're feeling generous" - summed up the entire existance of Portugal in a single sentance. ☠
P.S. Love your videos!!!
Ah yes, Spain's little brother, aka Portugal
That generosity might be extended to Bangladesh, which until 1947 was a part of India.
@@faithlesshound5621 Remind me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Bangladesh also part of Pakistan at one point, after the Raj I mean?
Ah yes, if you’re feeling generous you can also say it was the first and last global empire lasting 600 years, and counting the number of invasions it survived and humiliated spain… oh and lets not talk about the treaty that devided the world between Portugal and Spain just so there wouldn’t be a war proposed by the pope and spain, i worder why? not much just being generous
Ever heard of jokes?
I have a strange fascination with this topic. Especially how often Nubia, Kush, and Egypt show up in the Old Testament mostly but also the New Testament. Especially how Africa often gets overlooked in how much it plays a role in Biblical scripture.
Yet Ethiopia gets the same fame as Egypt. Most likely, the nexuses of culture and trade get more mention than transitory arteries in historical works. For example, I’m sure there were many Arabic tribes moving around during ancient times but none are really mentioned by name or traditional demarcation.
@@porphyry17 , Bible (outclude New Testament) (holy) language is Hebrew.
@@anonymousanonymous4690 Jesus backwardness is that your country is rich because of theft like Western Europe, so in this economic crisis
@@porphyry17 sounds about right.
@@porphyry17 I wish the Egyptians had kept their old gods. So much more interesting than dull, faceless Islam.
Where are you man? We miss you. hope you're doing good, come back when you want
Hochelaga, please come back with high quality and intelligent content 😔
I love biblical history. The folks in that time period were so interesting, even if you aren't a christian
But how true is it?
@@simonw.1223 Amazing considering that it's 3400 years old book
@@gamingthisera6339 well the official one was just made out of old text some discarded as it was not true but yeah like there were older books from where the christians copied stuff.
@@simonw.1223 Doesn't need to be true to be interesting
@@gamingthisera6339 You shouldn't underestimate ancient books,beung older doesn't mean worse,medieval Europe were much less advances than them and they also knew a lot of places. Also, remember that jewish schollars studied in babylonia and that was the richtest city in the world,they had merchants from all over the world there because they were in the middle.
Yay! Lebanon was mentioned! Always fun when we get mentioned. My understanding of the history is that Lebanon at that time would have been more of a region with several independent city-states than one unified kingdom. Lebanon as a country is honestly a relatively recent thing considering that we were under Ottoman rule and later French mandate until 1943 when we gained our independence from the French. Also, the cedars being important is definitely a thing. Actually going to see the forests and seeing trees that are older than Christianity is kind of amazing honestly.
Wouldn't Phoenicia be where modern Lebanon is located? And before Rome, didn't Phoenicia basically control the entire Mediterrean in terms of trade? Thus the merchandise people bought in the trade markets in those Biblical times were probably sourced by the Phoenicians
@@billsager5634 yes and no. whole Phoenicia and Lebanon do overlap, the border of Lebanon goes more inland whereas the Phoenicians hugged more closely to he coast.
they were a major trade power in the med. sea, yes. you could even say they later became a military power if you count carthage as belonging to them.
@@massey81 not that far inland though. Pheonicians didn't live exclusively on the coast in spain phoenician settelments are being discovered way far from the coast inside spain and in lebanon phoenicians had traces in the bekaa like yamoune
Greetings from Cilicia, modern day Turkey. We also have cedars in Taurus mountains and they are truly magnificent trees! Lebanon's cedars are so popular that even epic of Gilgamesh mentions them. Not to mention without durable cedar wood, phoenicians wouldn't be able to make amazing ships and sail all across mediterranean and beyond(they went to west africa and great Britain).
@@easypc5242 lebanon is geographically comprised of two mountain ranges. The Phoenicians lived almost exclusively on the western range, closer to the shore and had a couple cities extending up and down outside current Lebanon's borders
Hochelaga we really miss your videos! please return to educate us on these fascinating topics!
Hope all is well with you Hochelaga, wishing you a great 2024
You missed Malta as Luke describes the welcome given to the survivors in the Acts of the Apostles (XXVIII):
“And later we learned that the island was called Malta. And the people who lived there showed us great kindness, and they made a fire and called us all to warm ourselves...”
It was probably Croatia on the island of Mljet (Which also means honey and was synonymously called Melita). For one thing, Malta is not in the Adriatic sea. Secondly, vipers never existed in Malta, but they do in Mljet.
I know it hurts to think that St. Paul never shipwrecked on our islands, knowing how proud people are due to this event.
@@mr.merlin2524 Well I am certainly glad we get a Public Holiday on February the 10th! :)
@@mr.merlin2524 How come I have never heard of this? He is even the Patron Saint of Malta
@@mr.merlin2524 How would you explain the alleged meeting with St.Publius? Correct me if I'm wrong, Publius was the appionted roman leader of Malta who was sick during St.Pauls wrecking, and subsiquently healed by St.Paul to which then converted to Christianisim.
Micro states don't are real countries, what's next? San Marino?
Holding a PhD in Geography and working as a researcher at an Australian University I 100% approve of your revised video title :). I love your work :)
@@basilmagnanimous7011 kangaroos? Well I would say that there is no god and that the bible is the creation of humans. Those who wrote the bible had no knowledge of kangaroos. Therefore, there is no reference to them or any other marsupial in the bible.
I me a guy with a PhD who was an idiot. He was a racist Austrian German from Texas. I put him in his place when he looked down on my people, the Spanish.
@@scintillam_dei sorry to hear you had to deal with a racist mate. Having a PhD doesn't make one a good person. Which is why I'd never claim that. Being a good person makes one a good person. Wishing you a good day 😊🙌
@@1DoctorMoo dont feel buthurt. keep you idea for yourself. no one needs it
@@m.e.k3172 your comment makes no sense at all. Do you often make ridiculous comments?
What happened to this channel? Almost a year without a new video 😢
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He does Podcasts now
nah he hasnt updated that either@@billchukwu4694
COME BACK MAN WE MISS YOU
spoiler: israel
edit: idk if this is a necessary edit but this isnt a political comment at all, israel is just so prominent in the bible and i thought itd be funny to put a fake spoiler lol pls dont go ballistic in the replies (theyre relatively chill rn tho i can see stuff heat up)
Duh!
TW : Isreal
(@_@)
Ah yes, Canaan
@@AFndjdj7373 not so much for Palestinians though
People of the past interacting with each other is so interesting, Someone should make a similar video on ancient Indian texts (natyashastra and all), as far as I remember they mentioned a lot of foreign kingdoms
When you study history, you learn more and more how connected everyone was. E.g goods from subsaharan Africa had trade routes that went directly into Europe since pre-historic times.
@@RollingCalf trade routes must've been crazy, especially the silk road
We have so many ancient texts that it may not be possible for a youtuber to go through all of them.
@@indian1801 when our ancestors were able to memorize it all, making a RUclips video isn't hard maybe!?
We’re not white so no they will rob our history like they do with that false aryan invasion theory because heyyyy only white people are smart
Sir please come back, your content is some of the most interesting on the whole platform
Come back !!! Idk how much longer I can wait for a new video :)
These videos are so interesting - I'd love to see one of you explaining Gnosticism. It's full of interesting variations and plenty to deep dive into
This would be great
Oh gosh there could be a whole series on gnosticism.
I'm all for this, for the record.
Lloyd De Jongh and Dr Falk have done a few detailed videos on Gnonsense
If you are interested, there is a channel called Religion for Breakfast that goes deep into gnosticism, and many of his videos also use gnostic materials
So-called Gnostics were heretics teaching the lie of the serpent to our ancestors Chavah and Adam: "You are gods."
It would've been cool if the map showed territories that existed at the times.
That would be a great separate video.
At what time, though? Nations of this era are heavily tied to the existence of a king, and each generation would conquer or suffer revolt as the dynasties strengthened and weakened. We can only approximate what each territory looked like in any given generation, and there's tens of generations covered in Biblical history
Graphically, you'd get very vague maps. Kush, Sheba would be just arbitrary blobs in Eastern Africa, since we don't know their extents. Scythia would be a fuzzy blob somewhere in Ukraine/south Russia (BTW where the war is taking place). Libya was basically a few coastal cities, with some fuzzy influence inland. The only ancient state in the Bible that marked borders, at least in some areas (limes), was the Roman Empire.
Maybe color coded borders?
If these maps were made 35 years ago, most of Asia and much of Europe would have been red since Armenia was in the Soviet Union!
Man i miss this channel so much
Come back to us, Tommy!
You genuinely are one of the most interesting content creators for me. I know very little on these subjects, but your videos and the information within truly fascinate me and is presented in such a professional way. Thank you
He's way too bubbly for me. I need to see a video of racism or murder to balance out the positivity. Balance must be restored.
So cool to hear about Sudan in old texts 🇸🇩❤️
Sudan has a 32,000 year old history that is often overlooked
@@woozyz2769 true! I think we’re very overshadowed by the Egyptians since they take most if not all of the credit for the pyramids, Pharaos, and the Nile. Would be very cool to see an ancient Sudanese civilization be the center of a movie or something
The earliest name of the true God is written in hieroglyphics in Sudan Yod Hey Waw Hey(YHWH) in an ancient alphabet as an East African that so cool
@@servantofjesuschrist839 really? Never heard of that!
@@Ayat_Ali here is a video on that ruclips.net/video/pGEOZ5YI22M/видео.html
I miss your uploads.
When are you coming back :( I really loved your channel and it’s been 11 months
Absolutely stunning work as usual. I don't watch anyone as regularly as I watch you. You bring a lot of value to people who want to know more.
Great video, but I noticed one error. The regions you highlighted as Scythia were actually known as Dacia Magna (Romania), Thracia (Bulgaria), and later Moesia( bits of both). The Scythians at this time inhabited the Pontic Steppe in Ukraine, Southern Russia, the Caucasus, and part of Central Asia.
He probably made a confusion with Scythia Minor which would be Dobrogea in Romania and Bulgaria
thank you i was tryna find someone who would point that out
Illyria was also mentioned, which was previous albanian land, but not in the video.
Thrakia isn't Bulgaria, only a part of it, belongs to Bulgaria.
scythia is romania.
We miss you bro
Come back, Hochelaga ☹️
Unrelated, but I loved The Interruption. Wonderful podcast. Gripping, entertaining, wel edited, paced and put together. Cannot recommend everyone listening to it enough!
Yeah I have to back you up here, it's really good
How perfect! I was listening to The Interruption again today! Always love new videos from you Tommy!!!
You were one of my favourite RUclipsrs, thanks for the knowledge.
Live long and prosper
Wait what happened?
man did you quit youtube? I've been waiting for a while...
He shall return, just you wait.
Seeing the French flag looming over the earth is the scariest things I’ve ever seen, more freightful than Revalations as a whole.
The sun never sets at Baguette Land
Timestamp
14:09 time stamp
It was so close. We were this close to be french and not english globalized
@@jkvz7184 The land of "Le Retreat" 🤭😁
I love the way you talk, your voice is so soothing
It’s been nine months where are you I neeed you
This might be my favorite of your videos yet! I'd love a video on the different languages of the bible and where they were spoken! Thanks again!!!
I second this!
As a Muslim I think Bible study is really interesting
As a Christian I think Quran study is really interesting
As a Buddhist I'm curious why there isn't much freedom in both religions.
@@hellion6737 Buddhism has so many restrictions, don't be a hypocrite.
@@QuintinFernandes please state
@@prachipande3111 Abstaining from eating non vegetarian foods. Christianity doesn't have any restrictions at all, but don't confuse it to NOT doing whatever we want. The life of Jesus Christ and his teachings as the most fulfilling way of living life.
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU BRO, COME BACK!!
This really gives insight in how certain parts of the world were seen in ancient times.
The Bible also knew America
She calls it the land of Ophir
@eduardodias983 they mentioned that Already, it wasn't in America... did you even watch the video?
I love this! I’m glad to have found this channel that caters to my own niche interest of biblical studies and linguistic history
You should also check out Religion for Breakfast if you haven't already. He makes more academic but still accessible videos on ancient religion and ancient languages.
@@rpy9wyvbuerdopvpoe7blt77 I like that channel too, thanks for the recommendation tho
Yessss thank you so much! Been curious about this for a long time.
Hey. Where did you go? Missing your amazing videos and I loved your podcast. Come back!!!
Great edit, maps, visual aids, charts, stock photos and videos. Thanks for the effort. You earned a sub! ❤
Thanks for explaining this! It helps a lot to imagine the biblical stories when I read it 🙏
Why are you everywhere 😭
I have literally seen you on every video talking about Christianity/apologetics
@@chillmemes5865 Someone Said that to me some weeks ago as well 😂
That a country is named in "the bible" has nothing special, it is just a book liked by a religion and religions and gods there have been thousands through the history of humanity and the different peoples-civilizations, none is worth more than the other.
@@chillmemes5865yo same actually
Im in love with your videos. There is something in your calm voice and your interesting christian content that makes your content highly enjoyable. Never stop doing what you're doing :)
We miss you and your amazing content, hochelaga!!! Either way, we all hope you're alright and happy with whatever you're doing 🧡🧡🧡
Would love to see new videos from you 🤞
NRSV king I’m obsessed w your channel!! It’s so hard to find academic historical-critical Bible content but your vids are SO WELL DONE. Always look forward to ur uploads.
Also v proud of myself for being able to read “Lebanon” before you said it hehe
Try:
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All my homies read the Jerusalem translation, let’s have a fight.
Hey man all these new versions attempt to change the bible
And are politically motivated
9:40 never knew this about Sudan. Very cool.
I can’t wait for you to start uploading again, I watch your videos on repeat, great for cleaning. But absolutely no rush, Hoch. Hope you’re doing well ☺️
Miss your videos! 😢 Hope you post again real soon
I was just thinking about this the other day! Thank you Hochelaga
Great content as always. I was hoping to hear more about Libya than just a very brief mention. Its biblical history is fascinating. One of the four Gospels, Mark, was Libyan. He wrote the first bible. The man who carried the cross with Christ was Simon of Cyrene, from Libya. I’m sure there are plenty more about Libya that I’d loved to hear about over here.
Where things often get more complicated is that the words Libya and Ethiopia were used for regions much larger than the current states that use their names.
Libya, Ethiopia, and Guinea meant basically all of Africa at some point.
@@Yora21 I can understand that, but from what I reference, I mean things within the confines of modern-day Libya. For example, Mark and Simon existed within modern-day Libya. And I think that modern-day Libya is painfully underrated, in contrast to its rich past. That must change.
@@Yora21 Cyrene is in modern day Libyan territory.
@@Yora21 I am Ethiopian and just know that the "Ethiopia" in the bible was so much larger and stronger!
I did not know Mark came from Libya.
I miss you man... Please come back 🥺
Its crazy that its been a year since the last upload. Rip to a great channel
Excellent video as always! More Bible locations please
Tartessos was an iberian or celtiberian culture from south Spain that extracted gold, minerals and copper to sell it to the Phoenician colonies such as Cadiz, Malaga, Sexi, etc., aswell Greek cities. It's very mysterious because the Greek & Roman writers praised this culture because of its antiquity and wealth, although to this day it is very mysterious due to the scarcity of settlements.
There are mentions of a certain king named Arganthonios and legend has it that they would be the descendants of Hercules, who after killing the giant Gerion in Spain, fathered the Tartessians.
I'm Iberian of the original stock. I plan to cover ATLANTIS in my series "Greeks, Latins, Iberians and Jews were, and are, NOT BLOND!"
Pure Iberian here, I confirm
Writing from my native country of Spain. The Tarshish copper may send me down an intriguing rabbit hole. What was it alloyed with? The Bronze Age and Iron Age smiths could alloy copper with either zinc, tin, nickel, or even arsenic...
@@scintillam_dei how are they not blonde? The basque inhabited northern Iberia for 40,000 years, many of them are blonde.
@@nikoknowledge6660 Nature didn't exist 40,000 years ago. I expose lies of old dats like millions of years, in my series on the fraud blonds in southern Europe who wish they were native.
Man this channel carried me thru the covid era. I would check every month if he dropped a video. Now he's gone 🥲
thanks bro, I like it, wonderful job! good work brother
Great video thank you so much from a Coptic Egyptian ❤
@Iyalo Nope, I'm Orthodox Christian.
The inclusion of France should not only be partial due to *Maccabees 2* being a deuterocanonical/apocryphus, but also because even now it's still debated if the Gauls mentioned are Cisalpine Gauls or Asia Minor Gauls (also known as Galatians). Both tribes were related to each other and both gave trouble to Rome until finally becoming subjects to it at about the same time (around 2 B.C.).
Actually, France may be mentioned in Obadiah (verse 20), as Zarapheth
@@LangThoughts Leaving aside that he mentioned Maccabees as the only source, checking the book of Obadiah tells me that the word is "Zarephath", which is an alternate name of Sarepta, current Sarafand, which is located in Lebanon, actually.
The text in Maccabees refers to the Celts conquered by the romans at that time : either the people from Cisalpine Gaule (conquered in 191 BCE), located in what is now northern Italy, or the people from Galatia (pacified by the romans in 189 BCE), now in present-day Turkey. So, either way, France seems to be out of the picture.
Some have proposed that the "Galatia" mentionned in 2 Timothy 4:10 (written ca. 80 AD) be the then fully-romanized Gaul (that is Northern Italy plus the current France, Belgium, Luxemburg, and a part of the Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland).
Some also speculated that the land of Elishah (Genesis 10:4 ; 1 Chronicles 1:7), renowned for its colorful fabric (Ezechiel 27:7), could be the land of the Elisyces, a tribe from the region of Narbonne, in southern France.
@@samhall5212 Were it the Cisalpine Gauls, France would be in the picture, given that Cisalpine Gauls' territory did span throughout over half of current France (and even just a bit of territory would qualify).
@@jorgelotr3752 I think you may be mistaking the Cisalpine Gaule ("up to the Alps") for the Transalpine Gaule ("beyond the Alps"), which spans all over southern France.
Anyway, at the time the action of the Book of Maccabees takes place (ca. 160 BCE), the northernmost place conquered by the Romans was Modena in Northern Italy. It is only forty years later that the Romans set foot in what is now a French territory.
Great work! I really appreciate your video. Another really fun thing to look at is the non-biblical books mentioned in the Bible. There's a lot!
I have had narration in my mind when I go to sleep since I was a child. I used to make my own stories up mentally and I would always pass out quickly when I was trying to improv some weird superhero narrative. The reason I say this is because it was always a voice very similar to yours. I'm from the US and have only met 1 person with a British accent in my life so I find this channel very comforting in a strange way. I feel that if I tried to make a channel it would've ended up a lesser version of what you've done here. I applaud your knowledge and explanation. You are appreciated.
This is nice
I love all the wonderful art you always include in your videos! 👍
The Gauls that Maccabees references are the Galatians who moved into Asia Minor in the 2nd century BC.
The letter to the Thessalonians is addressed to the church in Thessalonica in Macedon, not Thessaly.
Scythia typically references Ukraine and Russia around the Black Sea.
Sinim is translated as Cyene or modern day Aswan by most modern day scholars as that is what the Dead Sea Scrolls use for its translation.
Actually, France may be mentioned in Obadiah, as Zaphareth.
@@LangThoughts that’s incorrect too I’m afraid. Zaphareth was a Phoenician city between Sidon and Tyre. It’s near modern day Sarafand in Lebanon.
@@Apophis150 Yeah, I said "may" for a reason. Some interpret Zaphareth as France.
@@Apophis150 Also Zaphareth may have been a Phoenician city, but I misspelled it, the reference is to "Zarapheth"
Paul's letter is to Thessalonikians, not to Thessalians!
I saw that map and was curious about on what context the most far away countries were mentioned. Its hard to pinpoint that the lands that they referenced in the book really corresponded to the regions we know today, so there is also a great degree of uncertainty to some of these mentions
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As a Biblical Studies major this seemed mostly accurate (despite missing a few minor ones like Malta and maybe Croatia which isn’t a hard mistake to make) the only actual thing I thought was odd was the proclamation that academia uses the NRSV, maybe secular Biblical scholars use the NSRV but my seminary uses a few different transitions, primarily the ESV.
Missing Iliria as well , that's Albania today
@@emanuelkacaj154 thank you for adding that to the list, we must remember the texts “for Allah gave the world to Albania, but Albania was kind and gave the world to other countree” Albania stronk 🇦🇱 🇦🇱 🇦🇱
Thank you for the heads up re Malta.
@@emanuelkacaj154 Illiria has nothing to do with Albanians.. Illirians were the ancestors of Yugoslavians (Serbs, Croats, Bosnians...), Albanians came about 11 or 12 centuries later..
@@aleksandargrbic5774 is that a fantasy book you read to waste your time?
Splendid research and presentation of information that's been anachronistically misdisplayed for simplicity's sake. This video has been helpful in wrapping my head around the global scale of both the new and old testament.
Jesus what isn't this the Middle East and Iran and the evil Canaanites who fought the Romans
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Scythia in those times would refer to the Pontic-Caspian steppe, which lies in modern-day Ukraine and Russia, and maybe Moldova. Romania and Bulgaria would still be included since I believe that Thrace is mentioned in the Bible, which is all the land south of the Danube.
I thought about this too. Perhaps they mean "Scythia minor" circa the Roman empire which would mean Dobruja (split between Bulgaria and Romania). The true extent of Scythia however would include by a technicality Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan, which would really fill up that map. I guess it depends how you understand "Scythia" in context.
Fantastic video as always!
I'm Romanian and I didn't know about our land being mentioned. Thank you!
I think he made a mistake there, because the people who lived in Romania then were Dacians, and Scythians lived north and east of the Black Sea.
@@talknight2 Scythia Minor was also part of the Scythians who is modern day Dobrogea
Agathyrsi were a people of Scythian origin living in what is now Romania and Moldova.
@@talknight2maybe he wanted to say Thracians? Since he also highlighted Bulgaria.
@@talknight2 Scythia Minor is in Romania
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Awesome content as always!
I think Gaul's territory are not the European one but the one in Turkey/Asia Minor/Anatolia. For example, the city Galatia (or Gallia) in Paul's letters is the city of Gaul in Anatolia. So, I don't think Gual here refers to European Gaul, but Asian/Mediterreanian Gaul.
that seems likely
@@micahbonewell5994 It is true that the Gauls migrated to this region in the Hellenistic era, and it is not known why the Gallic tribes migrated
Just went to read the text itself and considering it's in the context of Romans conquering Gauls just the verse before talking about Romans conquering Spain, I'd argue it is still quite likely for it to reference the Western Gauls
But then I'm French so I might be biased
@@wxcvbndu51 But the book was probably written before the Romans conquered the European Gaul.
@@frankstrawnation the new testament was written decades after julius caesar's death
first time watching your channel and the intro music came straight from that epic of gilgamesh performance here on youtube. I know im going to love this
5:04 "There might be a certain lost treasure to be found"
Someone in Arabia: *finds the Arc of the Covenant* *tries moving it* *fucking dies*
12:40
Scythia represents the modern-day Ukraine and Southern Russia. Dacia was the modern-day Romania until it became a car brand.
Yeah Scythian culture spanned a big distance from Romania to Central Asia at different times, I think at a time of writing Bible Scythia was Southern Ukraine, Crimea, Southern Russia, West Kazakhstan
Pontic Steppe is the correct geographical term, but you are right.
It could also mean the entire Eurasian Steppe, since in the time and place of the writing, when people thought of the 'scythians' they just meant nomadic horse archers living somewhere up there north and east on the grasslands.
@@slime_whoscrabby The word Scythians was used by ancient writers to refer to several peoples in eastern Europe, so we refer to a some sort of conglomerate of peoples. However, I don't know if it is correct to refer only to Bulgaria and Romania, even though it is attested that the Apostle Andrew passed and evangelized through Romania.
@@zepwafels (because of your name I'm assuming you are Hungarian - Sziasztok!)
Now I realized that I made a mistake because I confused the region with the people who were there (dacians) and correctly I should refer to the Carpatho-Danubian-Pontic region. I consider the Pannonian Steppe to correspond for the most part to the region of present-day Hungary.
In the year 60 AD the region reffered to as Scythia was primarily Dobruja, back then the Roman province of Scythia Minor. It is the same region where Ovidius was sent and met the "Scythians", which were not ethnic Scythians mostly but Daco-Thracians. It was the name of a province, so Biblically when Scythia is mentioned, it seems more logical tor efer to what the Roman world named Scythia at that time, which was the Scythia Minoe province. It is also where Saint Andrew is said to have Christianized the populations after Christianizing the Thracians, where the Scythian Monks resided (which were anything but ethnic Scythians), and a heartland of Romanian Orthodoxy.
When the world needed him the most, he vanished.
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One correction, Thessalonians referred to the Christians of the city of Thessaloniki, not the region of Thessaly, which is south-west of Thessaloniki. A "Thessalonian" is someone from Thessaloniki. The denonym of Thessaly is "Thessalian".
I thought the same thing, but I just assumed he was right and I was mistaken
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I said this 9 months ago and still feel that way
Hochelaga, you still alive mate
miss your amazing coverage of obscurities!! cant believe its been so long since the last post hope you are well and can come back one day. :-)
Where did you go? We miss you