IRONY! The music in the background of the other creator's video is Hans Zimmer's main theme in his score for the film Inception. Inception is a story of implanting ideas, false ideas, into the minds of others in an effort to bring about a "revelation" in that person's mind that they believe is authentic-- sometimes with tragic consequences--so that they will do or avoid doing something that the curator desires. The score in that creator's content is like a warning to viewers that the idea being injected into their minds is false. It is a construct to manipulate to achieve an ulterior goal. For someone who is telling viewers that he sees Biblical hidden messages in multiple dimensions (lol), he appears blind to the message implied in his own music choice, which is modern and relatively easy to interpret. The result is a subliminal hymn singing to the viewer that these ideas he is spreading are contrived purposefully to mislead. Funny. Lol
It's funny and not funny at the same time, it's funny because they show how brainwashed they are and not funny because they mislead many people with that nonsense.
@@KravMagooA phd in biblical studies and religion. Several books under his belt and I have cross checked his work and found him to be accurate. He directs his listeners to the books and materials. Have you identified any of his videos to be incorrect?
This sounds so much like trying to create meaning from alphabet flashcards. A as in apple. B as in boy. I don't automatically think chicken-raccoon-apple-zebra-yoyo every time someone throws out the word "crazy"
Chicken, as in a brainless animal, one that is not able to use it's mind. Raccoon, with it's "bandit eyes", representing the association with crime among those called crazy. Zebra, also with the black and white stripes, again associating to criminal activity and being locked up. Yoyo, always bouncing around, never able to settle on just one idea, as the crazed mind makes ludicrous connections. Wait, can I make money on Tik-Tok just by random word association like this done in a couple of minutes?
What'll really blow your mind is that the Latin script we're using right now is also ultimately derived from pictographs, by way of the Greek, Phoenician, and Sinaitic alphabets to Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The truth lies somewhere between the credulous Christian and the incredulous scholar. Neither is entirely right...or entirely wrong. The question is, why do you assume the scholar is correct? Other than what he said, do you have ANY corroborating information that supports his claims...or are you just swallowing his statement whole and unmasticated...making you quite like the guy who was spouting off about thing he only partly understands?
@@KravMagooThat's the grey fallacy. Just because you claim the truth is white and someone else claims it is black does not mean you are justified in assuming that grey is the truth. Its simply lazy thinking on your part. All else being equal, a scholar speaking about the matter in which they are a trained, recognized expert is far more likely to be accurate in what they say than a random loser making poorly reasoned and sourced videos to spread their cult on a Chinese social propoganda experiment site Oh, and before you try to claim I'm making an argument from authority fallacy, just don't. That fallacy specifically refers to an expert usimg their credentials to bolster an argument in a field in which they are NOT, in fact, an authority.
@@KravMagooI can feel the cognitive dissonance buzzing in my head, but I actually think you're right. As much as I want Dan to have the correct view, I haven't sifted through the data myself. I just assume from his expertise in a related field that he is better informed than the other guy, but this is the same epistemic rationale that, for example, creationists use with fringe scholarly positions. The only thing I try to take from Dan's videos is just lowering my confidence in things I haven't studied, including things he has himself. I think much of his more vocal audience should do the same.
@@benstillman5080 Well, I've heard from more than one biblical scholar, and they seem to agree on most of the important points - and so does Dan, which makes me think he knows what he's talking about. Whereas these video makers don't agree (unless they're just repeating the same source, which is typically either massively outdated or entirely uncredentialed) and seem to follow the same "logic" as any proponent of conspiracy theories or flat earther. Over time, you develop a sense about how they present their information that is a pretty good hint to how reliable they are (or aren't, as the case may be).
The Greeks did not adopt the Phoenician alphabet in the late second millennium BCE. It wasn’t adopted until the 8th or 9th centuries BCE. Linear A was was used in Minoa as early as 1800 BCE. Linear B was used in Mycenae as early as 1400 BCE. These are distinctly different from each other, the Phoenician alphabet, and the later Greek alphabet. There are some sound theories about why these earlier systems of writing were lost but, for the purposes of this comment, I am just going to chalk it up to the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
Dr. McClellan, after watching your channel for over a month, I believe you should start selling burn cream for the severe burns your deconstructions of these hastily constructed apologetics inflict.
Are you 100% sure he's right about everything he says? Or are you just ASSUMING he is...because, like the person he's "correcting", he speaks with confidence and authority?
@kravmagoo9527 No, I don't endorse or practice absolute certainty. Knowledge is probablistic. Additionally, your presumption is incorrect on several levels. Dan doesn't support his arguments by simply appealing to the doctorate he earned. Rather, he presents substantive logical arguments supported by evidence. He cites his scholarship or an accepted body of scholars. If you have counter arguments that rise to the same level of erudition, then I will give them and you the same courtesy. Lastly, an appeal to authority is not a fallacy when (a) the appeal is relevant to the conclusion of the argument, (b) the authority to which is appealed is actually authoritative. (Web citation)
0:51 Hebrew letters work in more than five dimensions like String theory? So is that how you make an Infinite Improbability Drive? You just mix your Hebrew Alpha-Bits cereal with a hot cup of tea? 😂
4:32 Aleph means God. Aleph was an ox head. Baal's avatar was a bull. Thanks to this poster and his methodology, we must now acknowledge Baal as the true God, who is the door, etc. I now give my allegiance and fealty to Baal. Thanks, chum!
Does this mean I have to sacrifice a child again? Because we did the moloch sacrifice to another deity based on a TickTok video a couple years ago. Or do we credit for the effort with Baal? Is there some gematria that can tell us the answer? I don't want another spell of ten plagues like after that whole Thoth/Hoth debacle! It was a simple mistake anyone could make.
@@johnpetry5321maybe if we stack the words in a specific way. We can get a physical representation of some deity. Since that was the methodology used in another video. I’m waiting for the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be shown. Then I will know for sure that it is the true interpretation of the sauce of all goodness.
Alternate explanation: Aleph and Bet are the same as Alpha and Beta, those are terms used by incels, incels are horny and angry, the god of sex and war is Ishtar. Aleph and Bet are at the beginning of the alphabet, therefore Ishtar is the beginning of all things. Also something about a connection between Aleph and the bull of heaven she sicced on Gilgamesh
I used to assume that the numerical values for letters were first used by Hebrews, or maybe even by Phoenicians and only later adopted by Greeks. Thanks for pointing this out.
Part of the problem is that classic notions of “inspiration” permit an atemporal God to work diachronically: sure, the authors didn’t mean it, but God was encoding spiritual truth for later people.
Dan speaking the truths. Feels therapeutic to hear it, amid all the misinformation in the world. It's hilarious how the person being critiqued has a huge knowledge of an entirely alternate reality of misunderstandings and delusions. Sounds so familiar these days...
The RUclips channel @_magnify usually has good and thoughtful content, but also has a video from 26 March 2023 titled "The Fascinating Secret Behind Hebrew Letters" that promotes this same stuff in 8-9 minutes. I am wondering what your response to that video would be like, plus whether you can find other red flags in his videos and your thoughts on how to properly contextualise them.
A possible corroboration of your counterclaim slot the use of Hebrew numerology: the Hebrew word for it is “gematria”, which is itself a cognate from Greek.
Apologist:"Hebrew the language of God of the bible".... and completly ignores that the "Nt" was written in Greek. Again cherry picking in its highest form. When it fits them, Hebrew is the language of God, when you confront them why the Nt was written in Greek, 1000 excuses.
Oh, come on. John the Baptist (founder of the Southern Baptist Convention in the U.S.) used the KJV. If English was good enough for him, it's good enough for me. /s (I can't believe I have to type that)
@@MitzvosGolem1 Huge parts of the Tanakh are written on Aramaic, which is a related, yet different language. And the Hebrew of the Bible changes from book to book.
@@pelegsap Fact : there is only one Orthodox Tankah bible in history all match word for word from Yemen to Russia in Hebrew.. Only Yemen has one extra letter. Only Dan is partly on Aramaic. Our Talmud is in Aramaic from Babylon. Kindly verify.
Dan you're the man! For real good sir. Ive learned so much bc you have help me connect dots that I couldn't or wasn't at that level of understanding yet. Thank you. Nothing like going back to the book and seeing how the passages just open more and more up. The truth is always in the details, kinda reminds me of the fine print, when we're signing a contract. 😂 I was Christian for a long time and in some ways I still do identify as one based on the beautiful core values of Jesus. I could ever walk away from something that completely changed my mental moral values, like he did. I do realize that he was just trying to show us all how to live the right way, that feels a lot more real or obtainable, I feel for humanity, then a God that felt as if he, at his last result go dumb himself down to be and human and walk the Earth sinless and perfect just to show us how to do it his way. It also for Christians, it takes th spiritual fear off the table too. Knowing that he was Human and he made it out by conquering sin and "evil", gives humans an idea of just how powerful we are. I know right, blah blah blah but you are truly helping me figure this whole thing out with your research.
@TestimonyRow, my interpretation of the whole NT Jesus narrative, is that Jesus of Nazareth was an itinerant rabbi who got executed by the Romans for sedition against Rome. Hence the plausible reason for the "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" message that was fastened to the cross (John 19:19). And later on, the likely Gentile authors of the Gospels, and letters by a Jew named Paul (who was very proud of his Roman citizenship), and various other authors that eventually became the New Testament, created a narrative about Jesus that he was NOT interested in Jewish rebellion, and cleansing Israel of her Roman occupiers, and that he was only interested in a "Kingdom of Heaven", and that his cruel death on a Roman cross was the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of mankind (- if they believed). Which would also render - in the minds of Christians - that Zechariah 14, and Isaiah 66 were not meant to be understood as literal prophecies about the future and eternal redemption of the Kingdom / Nation of Israel.
0:46 "In English everything is phonetic, you have 'cat', that's it, no other meanings" What does that statement even mean? English, even among natives, is literally known for not being phonetically consistent. If he was specifically talking about meaning and not pronunciation, well even his example of "cat" proves the contrary as "cat" can mean multiple different things depending on the context. And I'm sure "cat" can be pronounced differently depending on the word in which those letters are together.
“Nothing we believe is directly found in the bible, but there’s no way we could be wrong, so let’s invent a way to re-read things that makes us look right.”
Good but we can do better. The original Heiroglyphic language of the egyptians from the early third millenium was a logographic language which evolved into a mixed logographic, syllabic and alphabetic language. Scholars believe that the influence of sumer might have driven the use of iconic symbols (34th century BCE) into a written or temple language. In the third millienium BCE Sumer was pushing westward to the mediterranean in a primary effort to expand its resource markets in baaka region but also gave access to trade in lucratic comodities with Egypt. Trade progresses in the 18th century BCE as amorites migrated from central syria into the NE delta of the nile river. By this time the administrative transition from logographic sumerian to syllabic akkadian had occurred. There seems to have been a similar response in Egypt to simplify the written language, given the more involved heiroglyphic language it was simplified around the 18th century BCE to a vernacular, probaly shopkeeper, fieldmans script called Protosiniatic. Israel Finklestien thinks this language developed in the region of Gaza, however I think it more likely developed in the commerce centers along the nile. Note: the protosiniatic is in place during the Amarna when the ligua franca of trade communications was cuneiform. What is the difference between cuneiform and protosiniatic. Cuneiform -written in clay -remains erasable until the mud is fired -heavy so tablets are ledgered to use as much space as possible. -Unfired tablets do not persist, fired tablets persist indefinitely - uses a reed stylis to make impressions on the clay, or carved onto stone - the oldest known form of writing whose primary function was accounting and temple administration Protosinaitic - Named as its discovery at Serabit el-Khadim, the turqiose mines in SW Sinai peninsular - Ancestral to early linear/phonecian - can be written on papyrus, vellum, or carved onto stone - only monumental inscriptions persist indefinitely - oldest known was primary function was for general or use by merchants and artisans. Little evidence exist for its early use in accounting. Protosinaitic continued to evolve into canaanite early linear which in the 14th century BCE the phonecian language becomes apparent. Although there is little evidence of a hebrew written language until the late 9th century, Scholars of ancient Israel believe that the Omrid dynasty had some firm of writing. I am less certain, and I still thinks is possible that "judges" like deborah may still have used akkadian cuneifirm to read ancient law codes. We can speculate on what happened in the 11th and 10th century due to the lack of evidence Either way. However we do know this, the phonecian alphabet was adopted by the Aramians and this was carried into the East were it was adopted by the Assyraians and Neobabylonians. So at some point, given all the surrounding cultures were using a phonecian derivative that the derivative Israelites used the same. This includes early inscriptions to Yahweh. The broad use of phonecian after the LBAC probably represents the progress the neohittites made relative to cultures further south, allowing trade along the coast to stabilize and seek out markets and gain wealth. Ok with that covered, the proper name El, which is accompanied by some designation like the most high was written in cuneiform, the original akkadian form was 𒀭, this represented the commom dropping of the dinger𒀭 for the sky god An, formally the celestial sky, heaven. The akkadian il and plural ilu are taken into Ugaritic as 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu, Phoenician as 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl, and Hebrew as אֵל ʾēl. Only the ** form is definitive, the other form must be accompanied by a title. El was of course the bull of the heavens, shared in common with the early, but not later An. There are a multipe ways of saying god, El, Al, Eloh, Eloah, Shaddai in plurality Shaddahim and Elohim. The most high of a city could refer to a king, or its tutelary god, depending on the context, but when one uses El Elyon or El Shaddai you are referring to a god that is commonly known to be most high, and this probably refers to **. The word Ba'al refers to lord and could imply dominion in heaven, a city, or a household depending on the context. Without further definition refering to a god as a proper name it generally refered to Hadad. There is some disagreement whether El refered to An or Enlil, But at least by the 23rd century Enlil was a title, emasculated by Ishtar via Sargons reformations. Ishtar was the primary war goddess, and Enlil was the tutelary god of the holy city of Nippur, in story he is relegated to the underworld for being a bad boy. It could be El merged the qualities of several mesopotamian high gods, An, Enlil, and Enki for used in the colonized fringes of mesopotamia. El is a replacement father god, the weak canaanite father god was more Euphratean than canaanite. So the title father is appropriate usage, indicating that the high culture of canaan comes from the east.
I've been teaching Hebrew for nearly 15 years now, and from time to time, I'll get students who come in with these kinds of misconceptions. Some mystical or esoteric interpretations of the Hebrew characters are indeed ancient (though not as ancient as the script or the Biblical text itself), and you can at least talk about them from a history of religions perspective, but the idea that the meaning of the original pictograms from which the alphabetic characters were derived is somehow still imbedded in them when they're being used to represent phonemes is truly recent bullshit. It wouldn't have even been possible to speculate about this before the discovery of the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, and most of the nonsense that my students come in repeating seems to be traceable back to one website with a respectable-sounding name (on the internet, anyone can call themselves an "institute"). It's easy to demonstrate why you could never construct a written language to function both logographically and phonetically at the same time. Babylonian and Egyptian are examples of languages that did indeed use logograms and phonograms (or syllabograms) side by side, but a character could never have both meanings simultaneously (except perhaps if someone wanted to engage in some clever word play). There's no way you could do that consistently without making complete nonsense out of the language. I find a quick way to demonstrate to students why this idea doesn't work is to show them examples of homonyms and homographs, words that have the same consonantal spelling, but wildly different meanings. So you want to talk about אֵל as a name of God? Sure, but there's also אֵל as a simple preposition, which means "to" or "towards." How you're supposed to derive both of those from the supposed pictographic meanings of aleph and lamed is beyond me. It's a shame because I think the actual history of the development of the alphabet is significantly more interesting.
Do the LDS still teach that they about an Israelite tribe fleeing to North America, and when the group had a falling out, and a civil war started, the skin of the bad Israelites became black or brown, or whatever that Lamanite-Nephite war story was about in the Book of Mormon. Secondly, I wonder what Dr. McClellan thinks about the Book of Morman?
What I don't get about this "numerology but with bad linguistics" is that it doesn't even do anything to mystify anything. It's not interesting, it's clearly baldfaced lies, and I can imagine no world in which even the most ignorant person would find themselves enraptured by it. It's the worst kind of bullshit: boring.
Post Biblical 🤨 But, the Bible is constantly being revised. Even the Torah was revised by the prophet Daniel. I remember reading something about that being the explanation for why there is two accounts of the creation. Because, after the Kingdom of Israel split the two nations kept a Torah and when the Israelites were being returned there was a need to bring the two Torahs together in conformity. Thus, the prophet Daniel had to deal with these two variations called the Yawists (sp?) and Eloists versions.
@@KravMagoo (In my opinion I am reasonably sure) Dan is keeping real. (In our current attestation of what I recognize as reality). It's just easier to omit all the other stuff in casual commentary.
Any response from the zealot? I'd love to see that. For that matter, is there any way to make sure he sees ^^^ this? I find myself *kinda* wanting Dan's knowledge, just so I can turn it on around xtians, but I'm an atheist for decades, and I can't make myself pour any energy into what I usually regard as a waste of time. Still, though, sigh... I do contemplate learning this stuff from time to time, because it's tempting. But, to quote Asimov, "The Bible, properly read, is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." I'm already there, so... I repeat something I said in another comment somewhere in Dan's videos--- I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see an exegesis of the Book of Mormon on the level he treats the Bible. D&C and PoGP, for that matter. Esp this Book of Abraham. Ridiculous stuff. I'd love to see him tear it apart. Jewish native Americans (made up before DNA was known), horses, great civilizations for which no archaeological evidence exists, and so on.
I am trying to learn hebrew. I saw some videos recently from a Jew who was teaching the hidden meaning of hebrew texts in the torah. It seemed strange to me, but he was Jewish and a fluent speaker so I wasn't sure what to think. Is there letigit "hidden meanings" to Hebrew that is correct? I know the man in the video was Christian and was twisting things to connect to Jesus.
There are four dimensions of traditional meaning in the Torah: the simple meaning of the text, the allusions, the hermeneutical interpretations, and the mystical meanings.
@@hrvatskinoahid1048 fascinating!! A big reason I'm trying to learn is to be able to study the old testament in the original language. It's all very new and interesting for me!
If Hebrew was the language of god and used depictions combined with numbers, couldn't we expect 1 and the first letter would mean god, 2 light, 3 word, 4 spirit or holy, 5 water etc. for example?
That is a big IF. Hebrew is the language of God, then the language absolutely could function in many dimensions and levels of complexity. I'm not sure how we could go about proving that IF. The best we could do is compile enough evidence that would be incredibly unlikely under purely naturalistic assumptions until we reached a point that God is the simplest explanation per Occam's Razor. We still have to address what Dan McClellan says from a historical standpoint. For example, he states the first documented evidence of using a single Hebrew letter to represent a number dates from the 1st century BCE -- well after the final composition and compilation of what we know of as the Old Testament. If using individual letters to represent numbers developed well after the Scriptures were written, then the most plausible assumption is that the authors of the Hebrew Scriptures did not think of the letters of the alphabet as numbers. And that means if there are numerical meanings in the words of the Hebrew Scriptures, then God put those meanings there without the original authors knowing about them. Therefore, (a) God dictated the words in Scripture centuries before revealing their numerical meanings and (b) the dictated words were perfectly preserved from the initial authoring through to the time when their numerical meaning could finally be understood. And (b) is difficult to argue since the Dead Sea scrolls contain numerous non-trivial variant readings and the text of the Septuagint reveals the presence of other variants that had to have existed in the underlying Hebrew text being translated. And so, at the time that the Hebrew language was transitioning to using individual letters to represent numbers, there was not a unique authoritative Hebrew text in existence.
You mean like the centuries of similar teaching on the Hebrew aleph bet in Judaism, that go into extensive and detailed analysis and breakdown of the Hebrew language that make this Christian's TicTok teaching look like kindergarten playtime?
@@KravMagoo OMG, here we go again with the never-ending War of the Opposing Apologists! No, I didn't mean any of that at all. I'll just assume that you posted your reply to my comment by mistake (and not that you just didn't bother to read my post), since your post has absolutely nothing to do with mine. As far as the Battle of the Languages go, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just here for DAN'S freely-offered SCHOLARSHIP. I'm not here for a petty and puerile measuring contest of anybody's anything. 🤨
It is amazing how you take a Bible verse and shove it into just about anything. My sister got really into this stuff and now talks like a complete nut.
#highschooldropout gives turtorial coarse titled " How To Bring Eternal Shame Upon Your Families Name In 24 Hrs" for the low price of $666." The only Greek word he needs to know is the word 'cretin'.
He thinks *English* is a phonetic language?? Shouldn't that be foniks? I'd like to introduce him to the ways to pronounce gh. Or not to pronounce it. . .
But even Jewish rabbis understand the Hebrew letters to depict things and have numerical value according to their ancient tradition. Sure, you can say all of that’s post-biblical, but it’s not just a Christian innovation.
To my knowledge Jeff Benner is not teaching anything mystical. The view of the three letters roots in Hebrew started with Rabbi Judah ben David Hayyuj and Jonah ibn Janah. Before that, there was another view that the root can be 2 letters and even one letter (I agree with that view more).
Jewish mysticism has nothing to do with Jesus. For example, the very fact that people in the world still experience pain and suffering is due to the mystical truth that God's Divine Presence in the world, the Shechinah, is still suffering along with us in our temporary condition of spiritual exile and the continuing destruction of His dwelling place, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Oh how wrong both Dan and that guy are. You can learn the mysteries of the letters by studying Kabbalah. Also it doesn’t help that Dan didn’t dive deeper into archaic Hebrew vs post-Babylonian Hebrew. The notion that the letter-numerical system/gematria is post biblical is simply not true. The Bible absolutely has to be deciphered through Kabbalah.
DR. AMMON HILLMAN SAYS, ancient hebrew was a dead language and the scribes needed the greeks to interrupt the greek Septuagint back into hebrew. because the hebrews scribes had forgotten their own language. he says the septuagint was written in greek and the hebrews got their testament from translating the greek back into ancient hebrew.
This would be Dr. DC Ammon Hillman who earned his MS in Bacteriology and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he specialized in Ancient Greek and Roman medicine and pharmacy? The man who says the early Christians engaged in drug-induced child rape in religious rituals? I'd take anything he said with a large dose of salt unless other sources corroborate his opinions.
Probably someone who wants to defend the belief that Jews of Israel would use man made Greek translations instead of their Scripture in their own language. There was also never "the Septuagint" of the Torah/Tanakh. But many translations made by unknown people.
I literally laugh out loud when you say at 4:40 "aleph means absolutely none of these things". I'm such a nerd, but that got me.
Yes, a priceless moment
IRONY! The music in the background of the other creator's video is Hans Zimmer's main theme in his score for the film Inception.
Inception is a story of implanting ideas, false ideas, into the minds of others in an effort to bring about a "revelation" in that person's mind that they believe is authentic-- sometimes with tragic consequences--so that they will do or avoid doing something that the curator desires.
The score in that creator's content is like a warning to viewers that the idea being injected into their minds is false. It is a construct to manipulate to achieve an ulterior goal.
For someone who is telling viewers that he sees Biblical hidden messages in multiple dimensions (lol), he appears blind to the message implied in his own music choice, which is modern and relatively easy to interpret. The result is a subliminal hymn singing to the viewer that these ideas he is spreading are contrived purposefully to mislead.
Funny. Lol
I think its possible that could be a freudian slip.
Today I learned: Charlie Brown's shirt proves he's an Atlantean.
😂😂😂
YES! I SAW THAT ON MY INTERWEB MACHINE
I love how all of these people are just so incredibly sure that they are right when they are almost always, absolutely wrong.
It's funny and not funny at the same time, it's funny because they show how brainwashed they are and not funny because they mislead many people with that nonsense.
Remove Dan’s corrections and this man sounds credible. So misleading.
Being incredibly sure you are right is a really good way to never actually learn.
@@leroyh8977 What makes you think Dan's "corrections" are correct?
@@KravMagooA phd in biblical studies and religion. Several books under his belt and I have cross checked his work and found him to be accurate. He directs his listeners to the books and materials. Have you identified any of his videos to be incorrect?
Cool! I'm early! I really admire the academics who study linguistics and ancient languages.
This sounds so much like trying to create meaning from alphabet flashcards. A as in apple. B as in boy.
I don't automatically think chicken-raccoon-apple-zebra-yoyo every time someone throws out the word "crazy"
I want a world where that is absolutely what you mean. 😂😂
Chicken, as in a brainless animal, one that is not able to use it's mind. Raccoon, with it's "bandit eyes", representing the association with crime among those called crazy. Zebra, also with the black and white stripes, again associating to criminal activity and being locked up. Yoyo, always bouncing around, never able to settle on just one idea, as the crazed mind makes ludicrous connections.
Wait, can I make money on Tik-Tok just by random word association like this done in a couple of minutes?
@@matthewnitz8367 Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised.
@@matthewnitz8367let's not forget that the "apple" was involved in humanity's original crime! Theory complete 🤣
I know this is a tiktok thing but whenever I hear that music kick in I know I'm about to hear something wild (aka most likely not true).
amen
I didn't know that Hebrew was pictographic at one point in time. The evolution of language and writing is so fascinating.
It wasn't. All the pictography was gone when Hebrew started.
What'll really blow your mind is that the Latin script we're using right now is also ultimately derived from pictographs, by way of the Greek, Phoenician, and Sinaitic alphabets to Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The logical jumps these folks are willing to make belies their academic integrity.
ur def an atheist
The truth lies somewhere between the credulous Christian and the incredulous scholar. Neither is entirely right...or entirely wrong. The question is, why do you assume the scholar is correct? Other than what he said, do you have ANY corroborating information that supports his claims...or are you just swallowing his statement whole and unmasticated...making you quite like the guy who was spouting off about thing he only partly understands?
@@KravMagooThat's the grey fallacy. Just because you claim the truth is white and someone else claims it is black does not mean you are justified in assuming that grey is the truth. Its simply lazy thinking on your part. All else being equal, a scholar speaking about the matter in which they are a trained, recognized expert is far more likely to be accurate in what they say than a random loser making poorly reasoned and sourced videos to spread their cult on a Chinese social propoganda experiment site
Oh, and before you try to claim I'm making an argument from authority fallacy, just don't. That fallacy specifically refers to an expert usimg their credentials to bolster an argument in a field in which they are NOT, in fact, an authority.
@@KravMagooI can feel the cognitive dissonance buzzing in my head, but I actually think you're right.
As much as I want Dan to have the correct view, I haven't sifted through the data myself. I just assume from his expertise in a related field that he is better informed than the other guy, but this is the same epistemic rationale that, for example, creationists use with fringe scholarly positions.
The only thing I try to take from Dan's videos is just lowering my confidence in things I haven't studied, including things he has himself. I think much of his more vocal audience should do the same.
@@benstillman5080 Well, I've heard from more than one biblical scholar, and they seem to agree on most of the important points - and so does Dan, which makes me think he knows what he's talking about. Whereas these video makers don't agree (unless they're just repeating the same source, which is typically either massively outdated or entirely uncredentialed) and seem to follow the same "logic" as any proponent of conspiracy theories or flat earther. Over time, you develop a sense about how they present their information that is a pretty good hint to how reliable they are (or aren't, as the case may be).
Oh Dan this guy again lol tried to talk to him before on a forum and it's like talking to a wall
The Greeks did not adopt the Phoenician alphabet in the late second millennium BCE. It wasn’t adopted until the 8th or 9th centuries BCE.
Linear A was was used in Minoa as early as 1800 BCE. Linear B was used in Mycenae as early as 1400 BCE. These are distinctly different from each other, the Phoenician alphabet, and the later Greek alphabet. There are some sound theories about why these earlier systems of writing were lost but, for the purposes of this comment, I am just going to chalk it up to the Late Bronze Age Collapse.
Thank you Dan 😊 I’m grateful for your willingness to share your scholarship. Data over Dogma!
Always great Mic drops from Dan.
Dr. McClellan, after watching your channel for over a month, I believe you should start selling burn cream for the severe burns your deconstructions of these hastily constructed apologetics inflict.
Are you 100% sure he's right about everything he says? Or are you just ASSUMING he is...because, like the person he's "correcting", he speaks with confidence and authority?
@kravmagoo9527 No, I don't endorse or practice absolute certainty. Knowledge is probablistic. Additionally, your presumption is incorrect on several levels. Dan doesn't support his arguments by simply appealing to the doctorate he earned. Rather, he presents substantive logical arguments supported by evidence. He cites his scholarship or an accepted body of scholars. If you have counter arguments that rise to the same level of erudition, then I will give them and you the same courtesy. Lastly, an appeal to authority is not a fallacy when (a) the appeal is relevant to the conclusion of the argument, (b) the authority to which is appealed is actually authoritative. (Web citation)
0:51 Hebrew letters work in more than five dimensions like String theory? So is that how you make an Infinite Improbability Drive? You just mix your Hebrew Alpha-Bits cereal with a hot cup of tea? 😂
lmfao
It's Greek Alpha-Bits, ya know, with the spanikopita chunks?
Hebrew Aleph-Bits have the dehydrated hummus that liquifies after you add the tea.
LOL
4:32 Aleph means God. Aleph was an ox head. Baal's avatar was a bull. Thanks to this poster and his methodology, we must now acknowledge Baal as the true God, who is the door, etc.
I now give my allegiance and fealty to Baal. Thanks, chum!
Does this mean I have to sacrifice a child again? Because we did the moloch sacrifice to another deity based on a TickTok video a couple years ago. Or do we credit for the effort with Baal? Is there some gematria that can tell us the answer? I don't want another spell of ten plagues like after that whole Thoth/Hoth debacle! It was a simple mistake anyone could make.
@@johnpetry5321maybe if we stack the words in a specific way. We can get a physical representation of some deity. Since that was the methodology used in another video. I’m waiting for the Flying Spaghetti Monster to be shown. Then I will know for sure that it is the true interpretation of the sauce of all goodness.
Alternate explanation: Aleph and Bet are the same as Alpha and Beta, those are terms used by incels, incels are horny and angry, the god of sex and war is Ishtar. Aleph and Bet are at the beginning of the alphabet, therefore Ishtar is the beginning of all things. Also something about a connection between Aleph and the bull of heaven she sicced on Gilgamesh
Checks out to me, this seems like it is pretty obviously the one true meaning of that word.
I used to assume that the numerical values for letters were first used by Hebrews, or maybe even by Phoenicians and only later adopted by Greeks. Thanks for pointing this out.
I really appreciate that you are out here doing this. Thank you, Dan. This is super important work.
I hope you make shirts with the “Alright, let’s see it!” When I looked I only saw the nonsense one. 😢😂
Part of the problem is that classic notions of “inspiration” permit an atemporal God to work diachronically: sure, the authors didn’t mean it, but God was encoding spiritual truth for later people.
Dan speaking the truths. Feels therapeutic to hear it, amid all the misinformation in the world.
It's hilarious how the person being critiqued has a huge knowledge of an entirely alternate reality of misunderstandings and delusions. Sounds so familiar these days...
Dr Dan has faced many clueless people over these two years, but this is one of the few times that I feel he is royally pissed.
So refreshing. Thank you!
I was hoping this would be the "every 50 letters spells TORAH" debunking
I'd also love to hear Dan comment on that. How do letter counts fit in with the tradition of Gematria?
There's a great video on that by @tabletsAndTemples.
The RUclips channel @_magnify usually has good and thoughtful content, but also has a video from 26 March 2023 titled "The Fascinating Secret Behind Hebrew Letters" that promotes this same stuff in 8-9 minutes. I am wondering what your response to that video would be like, plus whether you can find other red flags in his videos and your thoughts on how to properly contextualise them.
See the Folio society book - A is for ox. And also the book - The bible in the British museum, published by the British museum.
A possible corroboration of your counterclaim slot the use of Hebrew numerology: the Hebrew word for it is “gematria”, which is itself a cognate from Greek.
Content creator - throws their best Hadoken DrDan - SHOOOOORYUKEN!! KO
Apologist:"Hebrew the language of God of the bible".... and completly ignores that the "Nt" was written in Greek. Again cherry picking in its highest form. When it fits them, Hebrew is the language of God, when you confront them why the Nt was written in Greek, 1000 excuses.
Oh, come on. John the Baptist (founder of the Southern Baptist Convention in the U.S.) used the KJV. If English was good enough for him, it's good enough for me.
/s (I can't believe I have to type that)
@@christasimon9716 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Torah / Tanakh is Hebrew.
Koine Greek new testament is new theology added in centuries later and had nothing to do with Judaism.
@@MitzvosGolem1 Huge parts of the Tanakh are written on Aramaic, which is a related, yet different language. And the Hebrew of the Bible changes from book to book.
@@pelegsap Fact : there is only one Orthodox Tankah bible in history all match word for word from Yemen to Russia in Hebrew..
Only Yemen has one extra letter.
Only Dan is partly on Aramaic.
Our Talmud is in Aramaic from Babylon.
Kindly verify.
Dan you're the man! For real good sir. Ive learned so much bc you have help me connect dots that I couldn't or wasn't at that level of understanding yet. Thank you. Nothing like going back to the book and seeing how the passages just open more and more up. The truth is always in the details, kinda reminds me of the fine print, when we're signing a contract. 😂 I was Christian for a long time and in some ways I still do identify as one based on the beautiful core values of Jesus. I could ever walk away from something that completely changed my mental moral values, like he did. I do realize that he was just trying to show us all how to live the right way, that feels a lot more real or obtainable, I feel for humanity, then a God that felt as if he, at his last result go dumb himself down to be and human and walk the Earth sinless and perfect just to show us how to do it his way. It also for Christians, it takes th spiritual fear off the table too. Knowing that he was Human and he made it out by conquering sin and "evil", gives humans an idea of just how powerful we are. I know right, blah blah blah but you are truly helping me figure this whole thing out with your research.
@TestimonyRow, my interpretation of the whole NT Jesus narrative, is that Jesus of Nazareth was an itinerant rabbi who got executed by the Romans for sedition against Rome. Hence the plausible reason for the "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews" message that was fastened to the cross (John 19:19).
And later on, the likely Gentile authors of the Gospels, and letters by a Jew named Paul (who was very proud of his Roman citizenship), and various other authors that eventually became the New Testament, created a narrative about Jesus that he was NOT interested in Jewish rebellion, and cleansing Israel of her Roman occupiers, and that he was only interested in a "Kingdom of Heaven", and that his cruel death on a Roman cross was the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of mankind (- if they believed).
Which would also render - in the minds of Christians - that Zechariah 14, and Isaiah 66 were not meant to be understood as literal prophecies about the future and eternal redemption of the Kingdom / Nation of Israel.
Wow, that was a lot of nonsense to debunk...
Thank you.
I love that alphabet just means cow house. Our two most primal needs; food and shelter.
Imagine VOR getting something incorrect. Who would've guessed.
0:46 "In English everything is phonetic, you have 'cat', that's it, no other meanings"
What does that statement even mean? English, even among natives, is literally known for not being phonetically consistent. If he was specifically talking about meaning and not pronunciation, well even his example of "cat" proves the contrary as "cat" can mean multiple different things depending on the context. And I'm sure "cat" can be pronounced differently depending on the word in which those letters are together.
“Nothing we believe is directly found in the bible, but there’s no way we could be wrong, so let’s invent a way to re-read things that makes us look right.”
Spot on. Thanks.
What exactly does he mean when he says "post biblical" like after it was compiled? Or when supposedly the last book was written?
I believe he means post biblical era, which mean the years after the events in the Bible reportedly took place
Good but we can do better.
The original Heiroglyphic language of the egyptians from the early third millenium was a logographic language which evolved into a mixed logographic, syllabic and alphabetic language. Scholars believe that the influence of sumer might have driven the use of iconic symbols (34th century BCE) into a written or temple language.
In the third millienium BCE Sumer was pushing westward to the mediterranean in a primary effort to expand its resource markets in baaka region but also gave access to trade in lucratic comodities with Egypt. Trade progresses in the 18th century BCE as amorites migrated from central syria into the NE delta of the nile river. By this time the administrative transition from logographic sumerian to syllabic akkadian had occurred. There seems to have been a similar response in Egypt to simplify the written language, given the more involved heiroglyphic language it was simplified around the 18th century BCE to a vernacular, probaly shopkeeper, fieldmans script called Protosiniatic. Israel Finklestien thinks this language developed in the region of Gaza, however I think it more likely developed in the commerce centers along the nile. Note: the protosiniatic is in place during the Amarna when the ligua franca of trade communications was cuneiform. What is the difference between cuneiform and protosiniatic.
Cuneiform
-written in clay
-remains erasable until the mud is fired
-heavy so tablets are ledgered to use as much space as possible.
-Unfired tablets do not persist, fired tablets persist indefinitely
- uses a reed stylis to make impressions on the clay, or carved onto stone
- the oldest known form of writing whose primary function was accounting and temple administration
Protosinaitic
- Named as its discovery at Serabit el-Khadim, the turqiose mines in SW Sinai peninsular
- Ancestral to early linear/phonecian
- can be written on papyrus, vellum, or carved onto stone
- only monumental inscriptions persist indefinitely
- oldest known was primary function was for general or use by merchants and artisans. Little evidence exist for its early use in accounting.
Protosinaitic continued to evolve into canaanite early linear which in the 14th century BCE the phonecian language becomes apparent. Although there is little evidence of a hebrew written language until the late 9th century, Scholars of ancient Israel believe that the Omrid dynasty had some firm of writing. I am less certain, and I still thinks is possible that "judges" like deborah may still have used akkadian cuneifirm to read ancient law codes. We can speculate on what happened in the 11th and 10th century due to the lack of evidence Either way. However we do know this, the phonecian alphabet was adopted by the Aramians and this was carried into the East were it was adopted by the Assyraians and Neobabylonians. So at some point, given all the surrounding cultures were using a phonecian derivative that the derivative Israelites used the same. This includes early inscriptions to Yahweh. The broad use of phonecian after the LBAC probably represents the progress the neohittites made relative to cultures further south, allowing trade along the coast to stabilize and seek out markets and gain wealth.
Ok with that covered, the proper name El, which is accompanied by some designation like the most high was written in cuneiform, the original akkadian form was 𒀭, this represented the commom dropping of the dinger𒀭 for the sky god An, formally the celestial sky, heaven. The akkadian il and plural ilu are taken into Ugaritic as 𐎛𐎍 ʾīlu, Phoenician as 𐤀𐤋 ʾīl, and Hebrew as אֵל ʾēl. Only the ** form is definitive, the other form must be accompanied by a title. El was of course the bull of the heavens, shared in common with the early, but not later An.
There are a multipe ways of saying god, El, Al, Eloh, Eloah, Shaddai in plurality Shaddahim and Elohim. The most high of a city could refer to a king, or its tutelary god, depending on the context, but when one uses El Elyon or El Shaddai you are referring to a god that is commonly known to be most high, and this probably refers to **. The word Ba'al refers to lord and could imply dominion in heaven, a city, or a household depending on the context. Without further definition refering to a god as a proper name it generally refered to Hadad.
There is some disagreement whether El refered to An or Enlil, But at least by the 23rd century Enlil was a title, emasculated by Ishtar via Sargons reformations. Ishtar was the primary war goddess, and Enlil was the tutelary god of the holy city of Nippur, in story he is relegated to the underworld for being a bad boy. It could be El merged the qualities of several mesopotamian high gods, An, Enlil, and Enki for used in the colonized fringes of mesopotamia. El is a replacement father god, the weak canaanite father god was more Euphratean than canaanite. So the title father is appropriate usage, indicating that the high culture of canaan comes from the east.
**begins to view comments muttering** OK let's see it....
I've been teaching Hebrew for nearly 15 years now, and from time to time, I'll get students who come in with these kinds of misconceptions. Some mystical or esoteric interpretations of the Hebrew characters are indeed ancient (though not as ancient as the script or the Biblical text itself), and you can at least talk about them from a history of religions perspective, but the idea that the meaning of the original pictograms from which the alphabetic characters were derived is somehow still imbedded in them when they're being used to represent phonemes is truly recent bullshit. It wouldn't have even been possible to speculate about this before the discovery of the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions, and most of the nonsense that my students come in repeating seems to be traceable back to one website with a respectable-sounding name (on the internet, anyone can call themselves an "institute"). It's easy to demonstrate why you could never construct a written language to function both logographically and phonetically at the same time. Babylonian and Egyptian are examples of languages that did indeed use logograms and phonograms (or syllabograms) side by side, but a character could never have both meanings simultaneously (except perhaps if someone wanted to engage in some clever word play). There's no way you could do that consistently without making complete nonsense out of the language. I find a quick way to demonstrate to students why this idea doesn't work is to show them examples of homonyms and homographs, words that have the same consonantal spelling, but wildly different meanings. So you want to talk about אֵל as a name of God? Sure, but there's also אֵל as a simple preposition, which means "to" or "towards." How you're supposed to derive both of those from the supposed pictographic meanings of aleph and lamed is beyond me. It's a shame because I think the actual history of the development of the alphabet is significantly more interesting.
Man, the creator so excited, let him be ignorant hehehe.
Do you ever do Data over Dogma about the Book of Mormon? With like a verse section and what’s that mean?
Do the LDS still teach that they about an Israelite tribe fleeing to North America, and when the group had a falling out, and a civil war started, the skin of the bad Israelites became black or brown, or whatever that Lamanite-Nephite war story was about in the Book of Mormon.
Secondly, I wonder what Dr. McClellan thinks about the Book of Morman?
What I don't get about this "numerology but with bad linguistics" is that it doesn't even do anything to mystify anything. It's not interesting, it's clearly baldfaced lies, and I can imagine no world in which even the most ignorant person would find themselves enraptured by it. It's the worst kind of bullshit: boring.
Post Biblical 🤨
But, the Bible is constantly being revised.
Even the Torah was revised by the prophet Daniel.
I remember reading something about that being the explanation for why there is two accounts of the creation. Because, after the Kingdom of Israel split the two nations kept a Torah and when the Israelites were being returned there was a need to bring the two Torahs together in conformity. Thus, the prophet Daniel had to deal with these two variations called the Yawists (sp?) and Eloists versions.
Click on your video however it didn't play, instead an insulting ad talked at me...
MOOOOOAAAAARRRR DEBUNKING PLEASE! ❤
Dan keeping it real!
Are you sure...or just assuming?
@@KravMagoo (In my opinion I am reasonably sure) Dan is keeping real. (In our current attestation of what I recognize as reality). It's just easier to omit all the other stuff in casual commentary.
This again? Is there a factory somewhere producing all of these creators?
I thought everyone knew the alphabet was named after the cereal.
Any response from the zealot? I'd love to see that. For that matter, is there any way to make sure he sees ^^^ this? I find myself *kinda* wanting Dan's knowledge, just so I can turn it on around xtians, but I'm an atheist for decades, and I can't make myself pour any energy into what I usually regard as a waste of time. Still, though, sigh... I do contemplate learning this stuff from time to time, because it's tempting. But, to quote Asimov, "The Bible, properly read, is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived." I'm already there, so...
I repeat something I said in another comment somewhere in Dan's videos--- I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see an exegesis of the Book of Mormon on the level he treats the Bible. D&C and PoGP, for that matter. Esp this Book of Abraham. Ridiculous stuff. I'd love to see him tear it apart. Jewish native Americans (made up before DNA was known), horses, great civilizations for which no archaeological evidence exists, and so on.
I am trying to learn hebrew. I saw some videos recently from a Jew who was teaching the hidden meaning of hebrew texts in the torah. It seemed strange to me, but he was Jewish and a fluent speaker so I wasn't sure what to think. Is there letigit "hidden meanings" to Hebrew that is correct? I know the man in the video was Christian and was twisting things to connect to Jesus.
There are four dimensions of traditional meaning in the Torah: the simple meaning of the text, the allusions, the hermeneutical interpretations, and the mystical meanings.
@@hrvatskinoahid1048 fascinating!! A big reason I'm trying to learn is to be able to study the old testament in the original language. It's all very new and interesting for me!
What resources are you using to learn Hebrew? I've been wanting to learn it myself for the same reason.
@@thedude9941 Duolingo, videos on RUclips, websites, and I want to buy a workbook but haven't yet
If Hebrew was the language of god and used depictions combined with numbers, couldn't we expect 1 and the first letter would mean god, 2 light, 3 word, 4 spirit or holy, 5 water etc. for example?
That is a big IF. Hebrew is the language of God, then the language absolutely could function in many dimensions and levels of complexity. I'm not sure how we could go about proving that IF. The best we could do is compile enough evidence that would be incredibly unlikely under purely naturalistic assumptions until we reached a point that God is the simplest explanation per Occam's Razor.
We still have to address what Dan McClellan says from a historical standpoint. For example, he states the first documented evidence of using a single Hebrew letter to represent a number dates from the 1st century BCE -- well after the final composition and compilation of what we know of as the Old Testament. If using individual letters to represent numbers developed well after the Scriptures were written, then the most plausible assumption is that the authors of the Hebrew Scriptures did not think of the letters of the alphabet as numbers. And that means if there are numerical meanings in the words of the Hebrew Scriptures, then God put those meanings there without the original authors knowing about them. Therefore, (a) God dictated the words in Scripture centuries before revealing their numerical meanings and (b) the dictated words were perfectly preserved from the initial authoring through to the time when their numerical meaning could finally be understood. And (b) is difficult to argue since the Dead Sea scrolls contain numerous non-trivial variant readings and the text of the Septuagint reveals the presence of other variants that had to have existed in the underlying Hebrew text being translated. And so, at the time that the Hebrew language was transitioning to using individual letters to represent numbers, there was not a unique authoritative Hebrew text in existence.
inb4 people who believe the Hebrew language is 6027 years and a few months old
Can't wait until this creator drops a response video in which he attempts to refute Dan's refutation of his video. 🍿😆
You mean like the centuries of similar teaching on the Hebrew aleph bet in Judaism, that go into extensive and detailed analysis and breakdown of the Hebrew language that make this Christian's TicTok teaching look like kindergarten playtime?
@@KravMagoo OMG, here we go again with the never-ending War of the Opposing Apologists! No, I didn't mean any of that at all. I'll just assume that you posted your reply to my comment by mistake (and not that you just didn't bother to read my post), since your post has absolutely nothing to do with mine.
As far as the Battle of the Languages go, I don't have a dog in this fight. I'm just here for DAN'S freely-offered SCHOLARSHIP. I'm not here for a petty and puerile measuring contest of anybody's anything. 🤨
These people sound like preschool children making up stories about alphabet letters.
The 'S' looks like a snake, so it must mean a snake. Comical.
@@tbishop4961 Do you mean it wasn't comical?
@@tbishop4961 So you don't find their false claims funny. That's ok, not everyone has a sense of humor.
It actually means Hope...
It is amazing how you take a Bible verse and shove it into just about anything. My sister got really into this stuff and now talks like a complete nut.
The ambiguity of the Hebrew consonantal text allows us to derive multiple layers of meaning.
#highschooldropout gives turtorial coarse titled " How To Bring Eternal Shame Upon Your Families Name In 24 Hrs" for the low price of $666." The only Greek word he needs to
know is the word 'cretin'.
You’re such a party pooper 😉
👍
He thinks *English* is a phonetic language?? Shouldn't that be foniks? I'd like to introduce him to the ways to pronounce gh. Or not to pronounce it. . .
Dan the Demolisher (of Grifters)
For a group that thinks they stand for truth 😂
That guy needs to just stop putting out any more content!! This isn’t the first time Dan’s cooked this guy!!😂😂
The language of the God of the Bible😂😂😂😂 as if God is a Man from a country
But even Jewish rabbis understand the Hebrew letters to depict things and have numerical value according to their ancient tradition. Sure, you can say all of that’s post-biblical, but it’s not just a Christian innovation.
To my knowledge Jeff Benner is not teaching anything mystical. The view of the three letters roots in Hebrew started with Rabbi Judah ben David Hayyuj and Jonah ibn Janah. Before that, there was another view that the root can be 2 letters and even one letter
(I agree with that view more).
Jewish mysticism has nothing to do with Jesus. For example, the very fact that people in the world still experience pain and suffering is due to the mystical truth that God's Divine Presence in the world, the Shechinah, is still suffering along with us in our temporary condition of spiritual exile and the continuing destruction of His dwelling place, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Oh how wrong both Dan and that guy are. You can learn the mysteries of the letters by studying Kabbalah. Also it doesn’t help that Dan didn’t dive deeper into archaic Hebrew vs post-Babylonian Hebrew. The notion that the letter-numerical system/gematria is post biblical is simply not true. The Bible absolutely has to be deciphered through Kabbalah.
DR. AMMON HILLMAN SAYS, ancient hebrew was a dead language and the scribes needed the greeks to interrupt the greek Septuagint back into hebrew. because the hebrews scribes had forgotten their own language. he says the septuagint was written in greek and the hebrews got their testament from translating the greek back into ancient hebrew.
Interrupt the Greek? might you mean instead interpret or translate or some other word that makes sense, because this one does not.
And whoever this guy is that you're siding is wrong.
This would be Dr. DC Ammon Hillman who earned his MS in Bacteriology and a Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Wisconsin Madison, where he specialized in Ancient Greek and Roman medicine and pharmacy? The man who says the early Christians engaged in drug-induced child rape in religious rituals? I'd take anything he said with a large dose of salt unless other sources corroborate his opinions.
The original text is to this day in all Torah-scrolls.
Probably someone who wants to defend the belief that Jews of Israel would use man made Greek translations instead of their Scripture in their own language.
There was also never "the Septuagint" of the Torah/Tanakh. But many translations made by unknown people.
Sure there's a message. And the message is there's a sucker born every minute.