The Demons of Ancient Israel - Exploring the Demonology of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2024
- Demons have come to play a key role in the mythologies of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. But, what do we know about such beings in the metaphysical ecology of the ancient Israelites, the progenitors of the Abrahamic Faiths? In this episode I dial the clock back before the Babylonian Exile (586 bce) and see what we can learn about the world of 'demons,' or malevolent supernatural beings, in the world of ancient Israel.
#demons #bible #satan
Recommended Reading:
Henrike Frey-Anthes - Concepts of "Demons" in Ancient Israel - www.jstor.org/stable/25684138
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@@belteshazzarbenyakovleib1071 Hello Sir, I have a question in mind is there any mention of any knife or any sword that can kill demons..... I mean "kill" and send them back to hell....
Please if there is... Kindly provide some information on that.
@@belteshazzarbenyakovleib1071 Ok that would be abstract sword but what about any tangible mythological object?
@@belteshazzarbenyakovleib1071 Sir please don't mind..i wanted to know the mythology about such an object no other reason.
@@belteshazzarbenyakovleib1071 OK thank you sir.
@@ratnasanyal1774 ...the Word of God is the Sword that lays demons low...
I will never forgive the Caananites for not starting a demon hunter school when they had the chance
@James Yu then where are all the blindfolded shirtless dual wielding double sword hacking deep voiced broody hunters with a deep irritation at the state of our unpreparedness to sacrifice
@@SHAX516 yo
@@SHAX516 im assuming thats a WoW reference yes ? Well if so.. FOR THE HORDE!!!
I am sure that the Cannanites are devastated by your lack of forgiveness!😉
@James Yu Ancient Canaanite Priest: RIP AND TEAR UNTIL IT IS DONE
This is so eye opening! I grew up in a very traditional christian family, where the existence of demons is taken as fact. I Can’t wait to learn more on the origins of demonology and how it became so integrated in the modern times. Thanks, doc!
Yep, that the concept of 'demons' and 'angels' evolved and changed over time is pretty interesting. At least, I think so.
@@TheEsotericaChannel Hey man i like your videos,have you ever read a book called the Hidden history of elves and dwarfs by claude lecouteux? French author who goes into great detail about how some dwarfs and elves were similiar to angels and demons,some good some evil.
@@SolidGeddoe They still exist and are seen in psychedelic trips. They are said to be the forces of nature itself
You should read Demons by Dr. Michael Heiser for continued academic research.
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Any chance of seeing videos on New World occultism, myths, religion, etc.? I have studied Mesoamerican (and to a lesser extent, Andean) histories and cultures for decades, and don't think they get the attention they deserve.
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Whenever one member of the divine council says to another, "hold my beer," you know there will be hell to pay on earth.
HaSatan - "You wanna bet that Job dude is really righteous?"
Yahweh - "Sure, I'll take that bet."
HaSatan - "Hold my shekhar..."
Lol
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@@TheEsotericaChannel I spat my drink out when you explained the book of Job - that was brilliant, I could not hold back my laughter.
At least they had a council, In the religion i grew up with, there was a single entity, saying, there is only one, and whenever you look at another one, you are a sinner, what a jealous tyrant.from a psychological standpoint,
Alukah could as well be a very famous Prostitute? If expensive enough, it might ruin ones life too when he becomes obsessed about her.(no disrespect, but i am not into mysticism, I try to find things rooted in daily lives across the globe, as all these "Gods, Demons, Angels and Devils" all seem a bit too HUMAN, to really stand out above or below human morality. Cruelty and Joy knows no boundaries, or borders. At least in my book about life,as i know it, or heard from others.
Best channel on youtube. The majority of the people watching your videos are no doubt on their own intense spiritual journey, and you serve as a fantastic resource for the historical context that, now largely hidden, still underpins the current landscape of spiritual discourse. Thanks!
Hide thine children hide thine wife hide thine husband cause they divine killin everyone out here 🤣
Also would love to see more on the Nephilim!
I should count myself blessed that anyone gets my sense of humor :)
Ahh you beat me to it! ... I see you are a ben tarbút.
OK, I confess, I had to look that up.
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@Esoterica I agree with Jenny, I'd like to see more on the Nephilim as well.
and the seraphim, cherubim, ophanim, elohim....
This is incredibly fascinating. It's also a huge amount of info. Really well made.
Your videos are not only informative, but just very cool as well
Fantastic overview, Justin! I'm so glad we have such high-quality content on RUclips.
Thanks for all of your hard work.
Thanks, friend! Hope you are well. It's amazing how little is known about these 'entities' during this period and yet how important this mythology becomes.
@@TheEsotericaChannel indeed! I really liked the part when you pointed out that prior to the dichotomy of good/evil there was that of chaos/cosmos. This is quite true for the pre-Christian Mediterranean culture, too.
@@drangelapuca Yeah I'd wondered about that myself. That Hurrian ( then imported into the Hittite ) he Kingship in Heaven myth cycle which clearly had an impact on the Hesiodic cycle. The strange thing is that Hurrians weren't Indo-Europeans and I'd wondered to what degree the chaoskampf is an Anatolian (or Anatolian-Semitic) importation into the Indo-European myth structure. Then I found ML West had made this argument in his wonderful The East Face of Helicon!
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Yep, going to happen at some point!
Uninnitiated normies "wait but isnt that a fictional fantasy universe?"
Chaos innitiates "i evoke thee, Deadpool!"
Thank you for all the hard work you put into these amazing videos.
Always amazing content Dr!!
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Super interesting. I am not particularly religious myself, but having grown up in a household with very religious parents who are still to this day devour Christians in a well-known global sect of Christianity (but fairly small in comparison to the big ones), I still have a great academic interest in learning about the origins of the dominant world religions, and in the mythos that humans create for themselves, more generally. I just discovered this channel but I subscribed after this video, and am eager to delve into the Esoterica catalogue of videos.
They devour Christians?
LDS.
Same here! I grew up in a Christian house well into adulthood and had to find my own way to these studies. In which I love!
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That is a real digging we need to do... keep it up..
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Oh man you win, that Brueghel, "Battle of the Fallen Angels" has been one of my favorites for years - I love the puffer fish demon.
I would be interested in learning more about Asherah, or the Caanan belief system regarding the Wife of God that you referred to briefly in this video. Is that a topic you might be interested in covering in the future? I remember watching a documentary a long time ago (can't find it anymore) which talked about Asherah, archaeological figurines, the idea that Asherah in the Bible is converted into a wooden pole, or stick of some sort to diminish her role... but my memory has faded on the topic. Anyways, great work and look forward to watching more of your videos!
I'm interested in this too. The OT seems to document the destruction of her worship and her poles. And omg so much destruction of the Devine feminine. I was 16 when I read the OT and somehow it made me feel so sick and angry. I really think having a concept god the creator has pronouns he/him and he has no counterpart has to make treatment of actual women worse....but then Greeks and romans prove me wrong lol 😂
@@mistressofstones Good point! There are definitely a lot of male-centric themes in the OT that do not feel God-inspired. For example in Deuteronomy the idea of taking women as slaves after conquering enemies and paying her if you decide to leave her after intercourse because you took her virginity, or the idea that women can not be priests, etc. Reading the OT, I never felt like that was something from God, it felt more the thoughts of man, but hiding behind the idea that it was divine commands.
@эзотерика философия наука How does Lucifer the angel fit in with what you are saying? Also the fallen angels that were cast out with him? Also the story of angels who slept with women? What about in Daniel where a messenger angel explains that he was held for 21 days by the prince of Persia (commonly thought to be a spirit), but Michael the archangel came to help him. It seems there are instances in the Bible that angels and spirits can be malevolent, conspiring, lustful, vengeful, etc.
Great content, Really enjoying it.
What do you make of Michael Heiser's work on the topic of demons?
Another masterfully done research .
I relate the idea of the abrahamic God versus Satan battle with the Sumerian Battle of Enlil vs. Enki.
Thank you sir for sharing your knowledge and information with us!
A thousand thumps up for the Goat picture!!!
This is the first time i, as part of the Jewish people myself, have the joy of listening to the stories and myths of the Israelite/Hebrews and Cnaanites. Its looking at it from a whole different perspective, i have looked into it as an interest but from a historical perspective, but this is so different than that. The line between Jewish mythology and Cnaanim is always a very thick one when seen by Jewish scholars, never learned about it in religion class with our Rav back when i went to jewish school. This is mind opening!
Okay now that ive finished this video i gotta ad: Where along our entire history did we go wrong that we decided to stop making female vampires canon??? I am truly disappointing, where do i send my letter of complain??
Great work. Very enjoyable.
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Dr. Thank You, admirable work, very few if....... have such a detailed knowledge and willing to lift the veil.
Cannot wait to see next episode about ha satan development into The Devil!!!
The topic is so important and underappreciated especially in the christian circles.
Thanks you very much for your work.
I've been slowly reading through Jung's "Answers to Job". I'd love to hear your perspective on the book of Job sometime.
My favorite video yet.
There is a game Dominions 5, it is a bit of mythology kitchen sink, so It has all kind of fun demons you mentioned in this video. Including even that soul-eating crocohyppo thing. And yes, it can nom even immortals for good.
I guess I’m having a hard time correlating the seeming absence of demons in a given period w that period having an order/chaos paradigm, as opposed to a good/evil one. Seems to me they’d fit just as handily within the former as in the latter.
Is the Alukah the "leech" mentioned in proverbs 30 that has 2 daughters? If so, do we know what the significance of the 2 daughters is?
Judging by Sauls reaction i bet the Nickelback cover was the song Photograph.
I enjoy your content; thank you
You might be interested to learn Pazuzu was recently discovered to be a GOOD demon in Sumerian mythology, the counterpart to Lamashtu and the one who controls her .
Look up Finklestein and Pazuzu , Mr Finklestein is head curator at the British museum and apparently this is a new revelation .
Yep, he scares away Lamashtu, hence all those amulets. I even have one as a gob for my pocket watch!
Finkelstein is another treasure himself.
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@@rebellejacobs777 ah yes, misunderstood
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*22:34* What a friendly looking fellow, how could I turn down such a generous offer?
20:10 - well polished
I only discovered this channel last week and it is already one of my favourites. Thank you very much for the effort you put in to create these wonderful pieces for us. It's refreshing to see a channel deliver the subject academically and without the showmanship of doing rituals and summoning demons for videos views.
I'm interested in the traditions of intermediary supernatural "spirits": fairies and the djinn for instance.
Love this. Thanks much. Any views about the belief that the original Hebrew Torah in the original typeset without the vowel marks is akin to computer code much as it is an exoteric 5 book history of the history of life and the Hebrews?
Since there was probably only a 'standard' version of the text very late this is unlikely. Even the Hebrew text of the Torah that was used for the Septuagint doesn't agree with the text as we have it and variations in spelling (plene vs 'defective') abound in the ms tradition. Also the vowel marks (along with other sigla, including other systems of sigla, like the Babylonian system) don't interfere with the consonantal text so much.
@@TheEsotericaChannel thank you. Check out the DIEHOLD FOUNDATION RUclips CHANNEL by Doug Vogt...hes written some books about this supposed codes of Moses and Yahweh...its very layered and deep information that i find fascinating but Mr Vogts end theories can be alarming and worrisome so not knowing the penultimate truths of these texts and ideas i appreciate your knowledge. Peace.
Great video!!
Thank you for the excellent work!
"dead family? I beat up a sea monster one time. How do you like them apples?" @17:39
Wth?
Love your work! In this particular lecture I was hoping to hear more about Nehushtan, this thing of bronze/bronze serpent that cured Israelites from deadly snakes (and subsequently is referenced in the News Testament as being akin to Jesus)...but I guess it doesn't really qualify as a "demon"....not sure what it's supposed to be though.
Yeah, it and the Urim and Thummim, the Ark, etc will get episodes at some point!
@@TheEsotericaChannel "Let's Talk Religion" channel referenced you in one of his lectures, and ever since then, I can't stop watching your content. I'm sure I will be riveted by anything you post!
"Dead family? I beat up a sea monster one time..." Classic YHVH.
William Blake, aka Willie B-Man, football player in Any Given Sunday!
I'd argue that they did based on the evidence in Job, and bits of deuteronomy. Rather the writers of the tanakh didn't include them.
When he's not making videos, his Full-time job is playing in a HEAVY METAL Band :)
I think I'm starting to develop a rough picture of what might have been happening philosophically during the apocalyptic period based on what you've said in this and other videos. It seems as if this Chaoskampf period you refer to would have been a natural human response to natural phenomena which, in the light of developing social structures, would have been revealed to be profoundly chaotic and in need of "divine order" which would manifest as the social structures themselves. This worldview would have been revelatory and/or controversial to anyone who had not yet experienced such social structures and had more or less been living as hunter/gatherers. However, as a creative person, I have to consider what it would have felt like to be the first person to think of building a city. I have little musical concepts that hit my brain like lightning and it feels like a small mystical experience. I can only imagine what it would have felt like to have that idea hit my brain! If I had never heard of such a thing happening, I would assume that I had been struck with a divine vision and, having no concept of religion, would probably end up starting one to support my big idea.
Fast forward to the apocalyptic period and the Chaos of nature is largely at bay, to the point that we don't even feel like writing about it much anymore. However, there are now suddenly other humans with a "divine order" of their own that somehow challenges what we previously thought was the only "divine order". This gets immensely confusing and we find ourselves in a position where, since these "divine orders" do not seem to fit into one another smoothly, one of them has to come out on top. Because familiar equals desirable in the human brain, the more familiar "divine order" became classified under this developing idea of Good whereas a relatively new concept that would eventually evolve into Evil arose as an attempt to explain the nature of this invasive foreign order that was not just natural Chaos, but still very much a problem, possibly more of a problem than Chaos was.
In short, it sounds just about as confusing as 2021.
Indeed
this is soooo interesting
I love this! Thank you!
A very sly joke and a nod to the “exorcist”. Well played sir, well played.😂🤣😆
Hi I was wondering what your thoughts on this are. A European occultist I follow has linked coronozon 333 to a lot of the obsession in alternative movements to middle Eastern conflicts and that coronozon itself dislikes the Jews as the Kabbalah allows knowledge of binding these entities. Sorry if my question is impertenant or not very classy. I thought it was an interesting insight as I've noticed a lot of people in the west get consumed by the horrors that happen over in the middle East on both sides. A lot of these people seem very hateful and unwell.
What is your opinion of the work of “Chief magician of mystery Babylon“ also known pseudo-graphically as “Baal-Harazim”???
Yea we need this because the Bible as we the Christians know it is not understood in the same terms and has had loads of editing to meet the requirements of the Medieval religous rulers who wanted to add and delete to the book. Thanks for your update.
I think about Satan as the factory troubleshooter. He tests the merchandise before it can go to the next phase. If there are significant faults, the merchandise is stripped for parts and melted to be recast.
Well that's a cool interpretation
At the risk of sounding overly obsequious: The jokes in the footnotes remind me of Gibbon. (Nickelback, hahaha!)
If I can achieve Gibbon levels of dry humor then I have won at life.
Oh Reagan from the exorcist... i knew this demon god guy looked familiar to me
I had often wondered what makes lambs blood so identifying? Does it fluoresce differently from other animals? Are the hormones and fat present the deciding factor of the smell that made it distinguishable. Those distinctions lead to a better understanding of what forces are at play, other than a blind act of red ocher on the doors. Strange questions, but that's why we congregate :)
I think it was just the most common animal around them, being mostly a shepherding society and all. Not that whole Exodus story is historical or anything.
is the abrahamic chaoskampf influenced by protoindoeuropean cosmology or is the chaos serpent of the mythologies descended from PIE speakers an analogous myth with no genetic relation to Yam/Tiamat/Leviathan etc?
Your videos are so challenging for me in a good way. I definitely approach God from a Platonic point of view as a Christian, but I have gained immense respect for how the rabbis used the kabbalic system to reconcile the philosopher’s god with the Hebrew Bible’s portrayal of the actions of God.
Would love to see you do a collab with Digital Hammurabi - Josh and Megan are scholars in Old Testament and Syrian and other works
They do great work - would be wonderful to work together
@@TheEsotericaChannel I think so. You all have big brains - lol
5:50 "You had me at snake penis" AHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I'M DYINNNNN!!!
my recommended reading: Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible
HaSatan can also mean the tester, hence Jesus saying 'Get behind me, Satan', he was generalizing the adversary trying to test him in the desert.
"Hide thine children" I cackled!
I am curious what do mean others? what other traditions are said to come from ancient Israelites or am I just misunderstanding ?
There are small abrahamic religions/communities that don't self identity as part of judaism, christianity and islam.
@@SrValeriolete That is interesting is there an example you know of?
@@Davlavi Babism comes from an islamic background but do consider themselves a different religion (like christianity from judaism). The Baha'í Faith consider themselves as disclosing the unity of all religion but it's undeniable that their theology and cosmology is much more abrahamic than say, dharmic, most scholars classify them as a part of the abrahamic religion, the Druze also comes from islamic background but have a more neoplatonic/gnostic theology and reincarnation, and generaly consider themselves separated from muslins. The Rastafari movement have the Bible as a sacred text, which they interpret differently and link to racial and ethnic questions. The samaritanism is a sister religion with judaism, I'm not sure about the diferences. And also gnostic movements can sometimes be considered separated religions (like mandeism which survives to this day and consider themselves followers of John the Baptist). There are other small religions, you can read the wikipedia article on abrahamic religions where they link to more of them.
@@SrValeriolete Nice thanks
13:11 I heard that this depiction was actually one of the Egyptian god Beset (or some other Egyptian deity), and not Yahweh.
Every angel in Hebrew religion has a Sumerian name so I'd say thats a pretty dead giveaway of the origins.
good one
I'm jewish, and I was taught by my rabbi to not say the name of demons.
Chaos vs order is a lot more digestible and applicable than "good vs evil".
Michael Heiser overlap day. 😀
You remind me so much of a lot of birmingham based Jews,that are just damn cool,far as I care.
Your should definitely look into the Mandaeans.
The Rugged--any association with Esau here?
I don't think so, the name עֵשָׂו has an unclear etymology.
I had to pause a second after the Nickleback joke.
Angels and Demons, as I've learned, are not separate beings but Attributes (aka Personality Traits and Flaws) of God that carry out his orders.
Thinking I should make a PayPal donation and ask if you can throw on some black metal, Blut Aus Nord or something to match the next “Demon Episode” :)
Another great episode Sir, so well done 🙏🙏🙏
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so interesting
Like more on the Sagisee's? However you spell it.
I wander: most scriptures are from human perspectives, are any scriptures about how the dark forces describe humans ?
looks like the dark forces have some kind of knowledge after all, we need decode the secret knowledge to be save from them...do they have their own Bible ?
The Manticore is found in Isaiah 9, where Israel is described as Leo, Virgo, Libra, and Scorpio.
The preceding chapter eight ends with the word darkness, by which, as has often been seen, winter is meant. And though the people walked in darkness, they beheld a great light (the Sun); though they dwelt in the land of the shadow of death (winter), ' upon them hath that light (the new year's Sun) shined" (v. 2). "For their yoke (mid-winter) is broken and passed, and unto us a child is born; unto us a son (Sun) is given." "The government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful (phala), Counsellor, the Mighty Ram," etc., i.e., Samson, or the Sun, the Prince of Peace.
"The Lord (Adoni) sent a word unto Jacob (spring), and it hath lighted upon Israel (summer). My reader must never confound the two Lords - Jahveh and Adoni - the first always representing summer, the last, winter. This Adoni is also Adonis who was gored by a black boar (winter)
In the example before us, Adoni sent his word unto Israel; hence, the time was winter, when "the bricks (of the temple, or summer,) are fallen down "(v. 10)." Therefore, the Lord (Jahveh) shall set up the adversaries of Rezin (spring, i.e., the winter constellations will take their places above the equinoctial line,) and join his enemies," the summer and winter." Then, with the Syrians (spring) before and the Philistines (winter) behind " (both meeting at the spring equinox), Israel (summer) will be swallowed with open mouth, i.e., the summer constellations, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, will be, at the time spoken of, one-half above and one-half below the western horizon at sunrise, and exactly between spring and winter, "swallowed with open mouth " (v. 12). Hence it happened that the Lord (Jahveh) cut from Israel both head and tail (Leo and Scorpio), branch and bush (Virgo and Libra), in one day = the equinoctial of spring. Leo is the ancient and honorable; Scorpio is the tail, is the liar, or rather, the father of lies = Satan (v. 15). The time being spring, the Lord (Adoni) has no joy in their young men (the first days of the season). Wickedness (winter) now burns as the fire burns thorns and briars, and is consumed (v 18). "Through the wrath (heat) of the Lord (Jahveh = summer) is the land darkened," i.e., when summer passes, winter succeeds; when no man shall spare his brother "(v. 19). As savages, men shall snatch on the right hand and on the left, and still go hungry. "Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm," - each furnishes for himself both meat and drink. Manasseh (winter) shall be against Ephraim, the one supplying flesh, the other fruit; both, however, are against Judah (spring), which furnishes the cereals = bread.
17:58 😅 I never understood nor like that story
Thank you!!!
19:44 What do you mean by the Bible can't decide who killed Goliath, and King David propaganda?
2 Samuel 21:19 notes that Goliath was killed by "Elkhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite" and it appears that this was the original story with a later redactor, probably someone like D, giving the credit to David, hence the propaganda part. Kinda a joke, but yeah, in the original story David didn't kill Goliath.
At 18:29 I thought you were going to do a church lady thing and say.. "you know...... SAAAAAAAAAAYYYYAAAN". lol