Why Josephus Matters

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  • Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2024

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  • @_pawter
    @_pawter Год назад +12

    Once again an excellent lecture that builds a coherent picture from all the disparate bits and pieces I had already. I'm glad you have such a large back-catalogue of lectures for me to plunder when I can spare 2 hour blocks of time. The pastor of my church used to be a high school history teacher and can read ancient Greek, so I hope to share with him the best bits: he has 3 small children, a burgeoning congregation, and little spare time.

    • @pwal6773
      @pwal6773 7 месяцев назад

      Watch at 1.5 playback speed and you'll only need to spare about 80-90 minutes.

  • @cae02
    @cae02 Год назад +26

    Thanks. Appreciate all the hard work putting these together, presenting and publishing. Keep ‘em coming!!! (p.s. Miss the live audience)

  • @garyschneider6644
    @garyschneider6644 Год назад +8

    This series is a wonderful find. I will be listening to other of John’s lectures.

    • @mohinfahim7280
      @mohinfahim7280 Год назад

      A group of Jews are directly mentioned in the Samaritans' Book of Asatir, And after the death of Abraham, Ishmael reigned twenty seven years. And all the children of Nebaot [Ishmael's son] ruled for one year in the lifetime of Ishmael, And for thirty years after his death from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates; and they built Mecca.” [The Asatir - The Samaritan Book of The “Secret of Moses; Gaster, Moses (1927). VIII, page 262] That is, the descendants of Ishmael (a.s.) began to rule during his lifetime. They built the city of Makkah. In that book, the famous Jewish historian Josephus (37 AD-100 AD) is quoted as saying: Josephus I. 12. 3. 221: "These inhabited all the countries from the Euphrates to the Red Sea, and called it Nabatene." Gen. 25. 18. Pal.Targ.: "And they dwelled from Hindikia (Indian Ocean) to Palusa (Pelusiumt which is before Egypt as thou goest to Atur (Assyria). In Kebra Ch. 83: many countries are enumerated over which Ishmael ruled "Built Mecca." That is, according to Josephus, the Ishmaelites built Mecca.

  • @johnydevassia
    @johnydevassia Год назад +6

    Congratulations for the deepest study and the subtle presentation

  • @PGB55
    @PGB55 Год назад +23

    This channel and John keep doing such a great job of summarizing so much scholarship in an honest way. I've yet to hear any contradictions with the more academic / detailed presentations, discussions, debates, etc. elsewhere. Always puts a nice bow on a lot of disparate topics.

    • @vsedai
      @vsedai Год назад +2

      Obviously you never watch Bart Ehrman, LOL

    • @PGB55
      @PGB55 Год назад +1

      @@vsedai obviously you don't have the foggiest idea of using logic.

    • @vsedai
      @vsedai Год назад +2

      @@PGB55 Expand your horizons beyond Christian apologetics. Try listening to what historians say about this passage. I go with historians on history, not my feelings.

    • @PGB55
      @PGB55 Год назад +1

      @@vsedai please use your brain. You're making a lot of assumptions with zero evidence. I've listened to hundreds of hours of Ehrman and many others as good or better, and am an atheist. This channel is not apologetics. you apparently don't know what that word means because if you did you would never label this channel as apologetic.

    • @PGB55
      @PGB55 Год назад

      @@vsedai also this channel is not by Christians. You don't know the first thing about this group apparently but keep writing dumb comments to others as well.
      I also guarantee you don't follow history or historians nor could you tell the difference.

  • @Nexthendrix2112
    @Nexthendrix2112 Год назад +9

    I named my dog Josephus, and I took him to training where he almost fought with another dog named Titus… what are the chances?

    • @KenJackson_US
      @KenJackson_US Год назад

      Don't you feel silly yelling _"Josephus!"_ out your front door to retrieve him?

    • @Nexthendrix2112
      @Nexthendrix2112 Год назад +1

      @@KenJackson_US nope not at all

  • @histguy101
    @histguy101 Год назад +6

    I was under the impression that Latin manuscripts of Josephus are all Renaissance translations, and that Josephus was not very popular in the west during the middle ages.

  • @michaelcannon3370
    @michaelcannon3370 Год назад +2

    thumbs up for the bolo tie lol. he has filled in gaps of info that I had wondered about but didn't know where to look or start. great resource I'll follow him

  • @tabularasa0606
    @tabularasa0606 Год назад +6

    This was far more interesting than expected.

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo Год назад +3

    People stopped identifying as Pharisees because so many high-profile members of the church were from that school. The Pharisees were bees in the bonnet of the Sadducees, which was the sect that had Jesus killed.
    But Pharisees were all over the Jerusalem church in the first century. In Acts, it talks about the Pharisees being the ones who were pushing for the circumcision of the Gentiles. Indeed, James the Just is identified as such a one.
    Gamaliel, a Pharisee, was a very high profile rabbi who cautioned against treating the Christians too severely, "...lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." Gamaliel, in fact, was Paul's rabbi.
    So there were a lot of political reasons to disown the Pharisees.

  • @alangriffin8146
    @alangriffin8146 Год назад +18

    Of course John had a complete works of Josephus as a teen. Love it!

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 10 месяцев назад

      Josephus had ti vbe invented because there was no evidence that jesus had evver existedand when the belief alone loons realise they are coming unstuck they spilt their bets and try some sort of pseud science like that hillbilly fake phd that isists genesis(which is no too bad as novels go) can be substantiated with evince
      Ido wish that they would just stick to the dumnass belief bet and not keep splitting their bets because it makes them look bad liars and worse fools- they go no evidence needed because we belieeeeve and then invent or reinterpret substantiates nothing god-on - toast is a three-legged donkey but backing it to place is even more stupid. Noacchian flood is also a no-hoper and a dogeared cutting from the Old testament Herald Tribune forecasting rain for 40 days not really let it place either
      Josephus my arse! It is a sort of christian Piltdown man

  • @GrammarDrops
    @GrammarDrops 9 месяцев назад +4

    Another amazing lecture. Thank you, John. ❤

  • @MaryGloeckner
    @MaryGloeckner Год назад +3

    So easy to follow! Admire this guy! Great educator!

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 10 месяцев назад

      Google Josephus debunked

  • @dnaphysics
    @dnaphysics Год назад +1

    John Hamer, here, is the opposite of Josephus - John gives me the vibe of being thoroughly objective. Very comforting to relax the B.S. detector

  • @zobewan9347
    @zobewan9347 Год назад +1

    Appreciate all the hard work putting this together.
    Have you done something comparing the Septuagint and the masoretic texts.
    Because Jesus quoted the Septuagint, I think, and it differs from that quote in the masoretic.
    See Is 61:1 and Luke 4:18.
    Are there more differences?

  • @atheistapostate7019
    @atheistapostate7019 Год назад +8

    I think due to the mentioning of James and the Jesus connection there, the latter verses are original BUT added too, more than likely by Eusesibius

    • @martyfromnebraska1045
      @martyfromnebraska1045 Год назад +2

      Cope

    • @henryy-tq8tn
      @henryy-tq8tn Год назад +1

      Massive cope lmao zero evidence

    • @onedirection2301
      @onedirection2301 Год назад

      "Atheist Apostate", are you sure you don't have some kind of bias here? 🤣

    • @atheistapostate7019
      @atheistapostate7019 Год назад

      @@onedirection2301 actually not at all ;) I am an atheist who does not reject Jesus as a historical figure, and rely on scholars who've spent a life time studying these issues.
      Either way it does not change my view that Jesus was only a regular human that magical stories sprung up about, and he wasn't anything that special outside of Paul making him so.

    • @onedirection2301
      @onedirection2301 Год назад +1

      ​@@atheistapostate7019 okay, fair enough. (I wrote a letter to you on my about page).
      I'm fairly familiar with the view that Paul made him out to be more than just a man. Some even say it was Paul who transformed Jesus into the "son of God."
      I'm curious, what makes you say this? (I'm a Christian, so I have my own biases!) Whenever I read the letters of Paul, it just seems like he's writing to people who already believe that Jesus was special, i.e. Jesus' resurrection is already assumed, in many of Paul's arguments. Those would be consistent with him writing to a bunch of people who already believed this. (His lengthy argument in 1 Cor 15 is about defending a general resurrection of the dead. He uses the resurrection of Jesus as an argument FOR a general resurrection.)

  • @nash984954
    @nash984954 Год назад +5

    Love the scholarship in and of these videos. How to copy them, buy them etc?

  • @apollo8352
    @apollo8352 Год назад +3

    I really appreciate your conclusions based on sound logic.

  • @beatricereja1664
    @beatricereja1664 Год назад +1

    Wow! Just what I've been looking for. Great presentation.

  • @humblethinker8493
    @humblethinker8493 Год назад +8

    Wow, this was great! I wonder if the host here has any thoughts of the idea of a late composition of the Old Testament, that the Septuagint text in 270bce was not a translation but rather was the original, as people like Russell Gmirkin propose.

  • @kjmax1068
    @kjmax1068 Год назад +3

    Barbara Theirings book said it was hard to find anything in Josephus' writings about Yeshua/Jesus. It was decades ago when I read it so cant remember all I read

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 Год назад

      There is no evidence that Josephus existed, the only evidence we have is less than 600 years old.
      So called copies of copies of copies of.....
      But no real evidence at all.

  • @stephen2975
    @stephen2975 Год назад +13

    Why did his followers give up everything to follow his teaching even laying down their lives? They were thoroughly convinced of his God like character and his resurrection

    • @annascott3542
      @annascott3542 Год назад +2

      Yeah I mean why doesn’t everyone just believe everything they’re told? Why can’t they just accept what they’re told, deny reality, submit and obey even against their own self-interest? What could possibly be wrong or go wrong with that? 🤷‍♀

    • @TheGuiltsOfUs
      @TheGuiltsOfUs Год назад +3

      Why did many follow the younger chinese brother of Jesus - Hong Xiuquan - and start a rebellion that caused the deaths of 20-30 million people? People be crazy yo!

    • @peterblock6964
      @peterblock6964 Год назад

      ¿Why, @stephen2975, are millions of donald trump's followers willing to believe anything and everything that gaslighting con man tells them to believe, and do anything he tells them to do?
      They've been gaslit, convinced, and hypnotized into believing he is "anointed by God" to lead them.

    • @CTechAstronomy
      @CTechAstronomy Год назад +1

      They didn’t give up much man they were illiterate and didn’t have a PS5

    • @neocount6397
      @neocount6397 11 месяцев назад

      Most of the ones who died during the conquest weren't Christian.

  • @frankiewally1891
    @frankiewally1891 9 месяцев назад

    well,he did not really switch,simply was spared by Romans for his bravery and sagacity,while defending some area around the city Jotapata.But thank you very much for this presentation,really throws some light on a very murky past.

  • @dynomiteslim4590
    @dynomiteslim4590 Год назад +4

    I also feel that a partial interpolation is the most likely. It's not hard to imagine scribes coming across a rather matter of fact mention of Jesus and thinking , we had better add a few things here.

    • @scambammer6102
      @scambammer6102 Год назад +3

      it's easier to imagine someone making the whole thing up. We KNOW much of it is forged. It's pure speculation that some of it wasn't. Or even if so, what part wasn't.

    • @onedirection2301
      @onedirection2301 Год назад +2

      @@scambammer6102 "easier to imagine" is not how scholarship works, though. We don't KNOW much of it is forged. For all we know, it could be pretty much what Josephus actually wrote.

    • @scambammer6102
      @scambammer6102 Год назад +2

      @@onedirection2301 I only used that phrase because the OP did. Funny that you do the same thing. MY point is that, since we know much of it is fake, none of it is reliable.

  • @kennethsnyder9236
    @kennethsnyder9236 Год назад +6

    This philosophical argument parallels with what I have learned about over the years. I have subsequently prescribed this channel for further studies.

  • @MelissaCaseyGoss
    @MelissaCaseyGoss 9 дней назад

    I enjoyed this…
    You were speaking about jobs.
    My son with some of his colleagues have written a book.
    It is an ancient text that describes jobs.
    It’s very sweet and easy to read.
    I just love history…
    I can tell you name of book, if you approve.

  • @_CR_
    @_CR_ Год назад +8

    Excellent lecture … thank you very much

  • @geridayao8924
    @geridayao8924 Год назад +5

    Who do they often neglect to point out that he was also a pharisee?

  • @jamesmorris9816
    @jamesmorris9816 Год назад +8

    Flavio Barbiero’s book The Secret Society of Moses might be of interest to anyone interested in Josephus.

  • @larryc835
    @larryc835 Год назад +3

    Fantastic symposium.💯

  • @joeanderson8839
    @joeanderson8839 Год назад +3

    He was a historian who gives accounts of events during the time of Christ.

    • @michaltaylor8926
      @michaltaylor8926 Год назад

      Josephis was born after when jesus was killed. So what you said is not true at all.

  • @dovbarleib3256
    @dovbarleib3256 Год назад +1

    Pharisee is a Meforesh in Hebrew, one who *interprets* the Written Torah with the Oral Torah.

  • @Robert_L_Peters
    @Robert_L_Peters Год назад +99

    I think this guy needs a bolo tie. Am I wrong?

  • @johnmasterson2534
    @johnmasterson2534 Год назад

    Hi just listened to dr.henery abrahamson,can youhelp me,question....he suggests that comment on jesus was added a little comment re jesus suggesting a certain slant

  • @pauladenaro5697
    @pauladenaro5697 5 месяцев назад

    I appreciate all his hypotheses about what he may have written versus what may have been inserted. He doesn't mention that it could also be exactly how Josephus wrote it. Who knows one way or the other? Perhaps like the soldiers at the cross Josephus got the message and believed. We don't really know.

  • @zhengfuukusheng9238
    @zhengfuukusheng9238 Год назад +2

    It's very likely Josephus himself was a literary character, a mere nome de plume used by Roman scribes. From his absolutely extraordinary treachery of his own people to his tall tales that mirrored Paul and Jeesus....to his incredible escape from an equally improbable suicide pact at Masada.
    The Romans were expert propagandists, who, when needing more evidence to back up their position, weren't alien to the idea of making up witnesses, 1st, 2nd or 3rd hand ones. The more the merrier

  • @gaillee5747
    @gaillee5747 Год назад +1

    Is it possible Solomon used different trees to discuss different people groups in Tanakh?

  • @Canonimus
    @Canonimus Год назад +5

    How possible would be that Josephus wouldn’t mention that this character was a disciple of John the Bautist? For me has always be bizarre that he didn’t make that connection. The important point for Josephus is Pilate. The second passage is also problematic, but even if it is original it does not match with christian tradition about how James died…

    • @donaldcarpenter5328
      @donaldcarpenter5328 Год назад

      Josephus did NOT live in the time of Jesus but 70-90 years LATER!!! He didn't even see PAul!!! Did NOT even MENTION PAUL at ALL!!!

  • @ConservativeArabNet
    @ConservativeArabNet Год назад +1

    Excellent presentation: like reading a book in 1 hr

  • @rubenducheny2788
    @rubenducheny2788 Год назад +2

    Wonderful lecture! Amazing!

  • @jd-gw4gr
    @jd-gw4gr Год назад +2

    sound bit 14:54 the gentlemen states the supposition if josephus used aramaic and again stress the suppositional phrase if, then concludes when a definitive statement based upon a supposition previously made: did i miss something here? his definitive conclusion is based upon an assumption, why is that. how can one draw an conclusion based on "if" and then state the result as ??????? as what, it is still an hypothesis, yes or no: who can help with this, what is i miss?

    • @tomdungey8505
      @tomdungey8505 9 месяцев назад

      It appears that he supposed a lot of stuff based on his view of his studies I'm I right?

    • @eyeswideshut1989
      @eyeswideshut1989 9 месяцев назад

      @@tomdungey8505 Is the original commenter referring to Josephus? If so, I would surmise that he drew conclusions based on "if's* due to the fact that he was a sage/seer/saer. One such Man, by seeing/saeing all sides/angles- Can postulate a conclusion based on an "if" due to this very reason. Literacy is very literal, however, with sufficient "if's" one can weave a more complete picture which tells 1000 tales. With enough pieces of a puzzle- one can hypothesize the finished product. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

    • @tomdungey8505
      @tomdungey8505 9 месяцев назад

      @@eyeswideshut1989 OK it's fine to do that but thoundands of ifs doesn't mean it's the true story. To completely believe the ifs is to be mislead. This guy seems to have lots of his ifs in his truth. It's misleading to present it as complete truth.

    • @eyeswideshut1989
      @eyeswideshut1989 9 месяцев назад

      @@tomdungey8505 I innerstand what you're saying, but you're taking my literacy too literal- which is to be expected. If by using "if" he is using it in a hypothetical sense- then the situation is no different then current scientific studies and the like... They surmise based on their hypotheses. That being said, I still agree with your statement. However, it is said that Josiphus was a sage/seer. Whether you "believe" such a thing could/does exist is irrelevant in this scenario- so why not play devil's advocate a little? Say you have the ability to see all angles/sides to a topic/subject at hand. BUT, just because you can SEE/SAE all sides- doesn't mean you have the capability to actually compile them, since a sage/seer/saer is just that, and not a builder. What would someone who has such a capability do in this scenario? You can see all angles- but you're not a builder. You would sae what you see, relaying all angles/if's, in the best structured manner possible for those who do not posses such capabilities (99.99% of people) because you can't build it for them in some sort of physical manner- the best possible hope is to use the least best option of the day- literacy. By the worst option, I refer to the fact that first came Language, then -> Numbers -> Signs & Symbols -> Runes ... Catch my drift?

    • @eyeswideshut1989
      @eyeswideshut1989 9 месяцев назад

      @@tomdungey8505 I also do not believe I recall hearing anywhere that it is said that HE said "it is complete truth". What is "complete truth"? What is "truth"? Is there just "one truth" or does everyone have their "own truth"? Is it in the eye of the beholder? My point is- the best possible way to navigate such stories from someone such as Josiphus is to attempt to walk the middle path while interpreting. Good/Bad are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, when it comes to a Man such as Josiphus. They walk the walk and talk the talk... All we can do is do our best to try to follow in His footsteps in complete darkness with only his words to guide us. Food for thought.

  • @robbinpapalucas4620
    @robbinpapalucas4620 Год назад +2

    Look into Ralph Ellis work on this topic. Ralph is a very in-depth researching on this subject.

  • @luluadapa5222
    @luluadapa5222 Год назад +17

    Many thanks John.
    A wonderfully balanced and thorough view of Josephus Flavius.
    His complete works was my last book purchase. I'm looking forward to working my way through his voluminous writings, and revisiting your fascinating upload.
    Your cartography-based talks are equally as fascinating.
    Kind regards from England 💜🙏

    • @davidgladstone5261
      @davidgladstone5261 Год назад +1

      Balanced? Covering for his transgressions and crimes?

    • @vsedai
      @vsedai Год назад +1

      @@davidgladstone5261 That is exactly what I was thinking

    • @vsedai
      @vsedai Год назад +3

      @jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE Just google Josephus Jesus controversy. As someone else said below " The biggest problem for me with the 'Jesus paragraph ' isn't just the fact that Josephus suddenly becomes a devout Christian for a few words before going back to being Jewish. It's the fact that the paragraph is literally jammed in the middle of another one. The text fits together better if you simply take the paragraph out completely"

    • @vsedai
      @vsedai Год назад

      @jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE Ya right. Why are you even in this conversation, when it is obvious that you don't follow Christ?

    • @scambammer6102
      @scambammer6102 Год назад +2

      @@vsedai lol follow your little make-believe puppet

  • @steviewax
    @steviewax Год назад

    The talk is a well presented and extensive scholarly presentation on Josephus and the fate of the Jews at the time of the Roman destruction of the 2nd temple in Jerusalem. While the speaker shows No direct affiliation with Israel and Judaism, the speakers insights would provide valuable insights to the Jewish people and Israelis.

  • @davewhitley5612
    @davewhitley5612 Год назад +1

    Flavius Josephus aka Arrius Calpurnius Piso, was part Jewish but totally roman. Magnificent writer, did a great job turning the feats of Titus Flavius into Jesus. See Caesars Messiah. The Romans were losing and needed a plan.

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 Год назад

      Who were the Romans losing to ?
      A genuine question,,

    • @donaldcarpenter5328
      @donaldcarpenter5328 Год назад

      OMG finally TRUTH on the "web" of LIES!!!

  • @glenngrowe7105
    @glenngrowe7105 Год назад +6

    Very objective, balanced, and informative. Thank you.

  • @ralphowen3367
    @ralphowen3367 Год назад

    I am reading Joseph's now, but now and then I find some troubling errors. Two glaring ones are when he disserts on David being confronted by Nathan the prophet about his sin with Bathsheba and her husband. First, Joseph's says that this visitation came by a dream. Then Josephus says that this double mortal sin was the first sin the king ever committed in his entire life.

  • @mcgie2002
    @mcgie2002 Год назад +3

    I absolutely love these lectures, but i’m a bit puzzled by your … denomination for lack of a better word, in light of all this truth seeking historical criticism? Does that make sense?

    • @chrisconrod9560
      @chrisconrod9560 Год назад

      Heaven forbid that someone seeks the truth! Are you afraid that the truth will hurt your faith?

    • @mcgie2002
      @mcgie2002 Год назад

      @@chrisconrod9560 Quite the opposite. You misread

    • @wungabunga
      @wungabunga Год назад

      @@chrisconrod9560That’s a terribly naive assumption on your part. Look at the likes of Tabor, who is clearly desperate for Christianity to be debunked. All under the parasol of ‘purely historical investigation’. My guess (in Tabor’s case) is one too many visits to the Holy Land.

    • @chrisconrod9560
      @chrisconrod9560 Год назад +1

      @@wungabunga Christianity was debunked a long time ago. Give it up.

    • @wungabunga
      @wungabunga Год назад +1

      @@chrisconrod9560 Then what are you wasting your time discussing it for? Manichaeism debate much? No, no. I think you are indeed upset by its enduring popularity and truth. I bid you good day, sir.

  • @andylyon3867
    @andylyon3867 Год назад +3

    Shakespeare spent 8 years as a child studying Latin he could read Latin better any modern scholar of Latin today. He did not need translations as would be true for ALL English school boys of that time.

    • @annascott3542
      @annascott3542 Год назад

      Lololol yeah… sure he did!!! What a con.

    • @andylyon3867
      @andylyon3867 Год назад

      @@annascott3542 no con he spent 8 years going to school where everything was in Latin.

    • @user-tg3tj2nq6v
      @user-tg3tj2nq6v Год назад +1

      @@annascott3542 All of them studied Latin and Greek. Hardly nothing was in English, there was no English literature. Newton kept notes in Greek.

    • @aliceputt3133
      @aliceputt3133 Год назад

      They all studied Latin and Greek at that time but there was also considerable English poetry and drama from Ben Johnson, Spencer, Francis Bacon, and Christopher Marlowe among others. They were contemporary with Shakespeare. This is the Tudor Stuart period leading to the King James Bible.

  • @wendyhughes2234
    @wendyhughes2234 Год назад

    1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as YUH now knows me completely.

  • @Steve-u9k4p
    @Steve-u9k4p 4 месяца назад

    Extraordinary as always, ty👍

  • @pkemoiarapkandie
    @pkemoiarapkandie Год назад

    Could josephus himself use the name jesus at that time? or it's just part of the editing done latter...

  • @Bluemax54
    @Bluemax54 Год назад +5

    I like to think of it as "ce" or Christian era and "bce" as before the Christian era.

    • @juliadolker9854
      @juliadolker9854 Год назад +3

      Only that the years 0 to 2023 was not the Christian era for most people.

    • @medina4600
      @medina4600 Год назад

      @@juliadolker9854what are you talking about? Christianity is the largest religion by number of devotees/ converts in 2023 and that’s been the case since 350 AD.

    • @Philip-bk2dm
      @Philip-bk2dm Год назад

      @@medina4600 He said from zero not 359 C.E. , that's a long time, and you refer to those who identify as belonging to a recognized religion and that leaves a lot of people out of the picture. But what does it matter?

    • @thoughtfuloutsider
      @thoughtfuloutsider Год назад +1

      ​@medina4600 and @Juliadolker9854 I don't think you can say Christianity was the largest religion from 350ce onwards. By that time Buddhism was important in China, and with Hinduism in India and south-east Asia. From 650-700ce in the next 200 yrs Islam spread very quickly replacing the Greco-Roman empire from India to Spain and up to China. Europe's conversion was only completed 1400s with the crusades against the Slavs and in Spain against the Muslims.

    • @777rogerf
      @777rogerf Год назад +1

      @@thoughtfuloutsiderCounting people who have been conquered and forced on pain of death to convert to a religion is questionable when evaluating the comparative popularity of religions.

  • @mishaanton5436
    @mishaanton5436 Год назад

    After listening to 3 lectures I have a question? Do you day of the Bible that "It has come down to us" ?

  • @markcharron
    @markcharron 9 месяцев назад

    Josephus really seems to embody the notion of "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe..."

  • @leonceboudreauxwolf
    @leonceboudreauxwolf Год назад +1

    I don't know if it's true or not but read somewhere that Josephus had written down a physical description of Jesus. If that's true I'd love to get my hands on a copy.

    • @chuckschillingvideos
      @chuckschillingvideos Год назад

      How would he have come by that? Jesus of Nazareth is a figure of miniscule importance in his works and it is...very odd to think that Josephus would have bothered to record such a thing, even if he had it (which, obviously, he didn't). There is no reason to think the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth differed in any significant way from that of the typical Jewish male in the Levant at the time.

    • @1stblackmanonthenet
      @1stblackmanonthenet 10 месяцев назад

      @@chuckschillingvideos miniscule importance in his works as perceived by the world or His followers? Just looking for clarity (off-topic)

  • @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893
    @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 Год назад +1

    I disagree, I think Josephus could have written those things on Christ - but as it is, everybody wanna attack any witness on Christ. It would not be to mysteries if he actually knew who Christ was, but did not wanna further go into proclaiming it not liking the idea.
    I found 1 more not usually spoken about that was very interesting coming from him. And there might be a lot more, but have far from read everything from him.
    6. For all men, the just as well as the unjust, shall be brought before God the Word: for to him hath the Father committed all judgment : and he, in order to fulfill the will of his Father, shall come as Judge, whom we call Christ. - Josephus first century historian and Jew - adopted as a Roman citizen

  • @epeeypen
    @epeeypen 7 месяцев назад

    i notice a pattern when historical academia is applied to these text.. often they take passages and statements and then attribute different authors or inserts in order to back up their random assertion. same thing happens in Deuteronomy .. they just invent the idea of multiple authors.

  • @wendyhughes2234
    @wendyhughes2234 Год назад

    .Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 KJV 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

  • @Malouco
    @Malouco Год назад

    Isaiah and Joseph are what makes me believe in Jesus

  • @wendyhughes2234
    @wendyhughes2234 Год назад +1

    John 16:33 Amplified Bible I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world, [Terrarium] you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]

  • @youta5
    @youta5 Год назад

    Best source for info about Christianity.

  • @mayermargolis8990
    @mayermargolis8990 Год назад

    This is an excellent lecture. Could you please identify the lecturer? You don’t even give his name.

  • @andreteixeira5635
    @andreteixeira5635 Год назад +2

    Thiis was a really interesting class! Many thanks and greetings from a History loving and Roman Catholic from Brazil!

  • @meskes4059
    @meskes4059 7 месяцев назад

    What if he was writing it as directed by Flavious?

  • @mohinfahim7280
    @mohinfahim7280 Год назад

    A group of Jews are directly mentioned in the Samaritans' Book of Asatir, And after the death of Abraham, Ishmael reigned twenty seven years. And all the children of Nebaot [Ishmael's son] ruled for one year in the lifetime of Ishmael, And for thirty years after his death from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates; and they built Mecca.” [The Asatir - The Samaritan Book of The “Secret of Moses; Gaster, Moses (1927). VIII, page 262] That is, the descendants of Ishmael (a.s.) began to rule during his lifetime. They built the city of Makkah. In that book, the famous Jewish historian Josephus (37 AD-100 AD) is quoted as saying: Josephus I. 12. 3. 221: "These inhabited all the countries from the Euphrates to the Red Sea, and called it Nabatene." Gen. 25. 18. Pal.Targ.: "And they dwelled from Hindikia (Indian Ocean) to Palusa (Pelusiumt which is before Egypt as thou goest to Atur (Assyria). In Kebra Ch. 83: many countries are enumerated over which Ishmael ruled "Built Mecca." That is, according to Josephus, the Ishmaelites built Mecca.

  • @Knife_Collector
    @Knife_Collector Год назад +2

    I have a six book set of the Works of Josephus printed in 1825. Not sure I want to read them, as the pages may start falling apart due to age.

    • @kevwhufc8640
      @kevwhufc8640 Год назад +1

      Being from Victorian times They might be worth a few bucks .
      I'd look into the $$ value. :)

  • @albusai
    @albusai Год назад

    Paul the apostle prohibited fallowing the Law. So was the first council in the book of acts..

  • @TheEbble
    @TheEbble Год назад

    How do you know 'for' Josephus what he might have concluded about Jesus?🤔🤔🤔

  • @kensmith8152
    @kensmith8152 4 месяца назад

    Thank you for pointing out how Hellenistic thought permeated into Christianity. This is where in Christianity the belief in the immortal soul or Neoplatonism came into popularity. The Bible teaches that at death, man sleeps to await the resurrection on Christ’s return. No one goes to heaven or hell until judgment day. Later on in the Roman church adopts worship of saints, statues and Mary

  • @alexanderbrown7631
    @alexanderbrown7631 Год назад

    Yes I think you are around 70 - 75% right.

  • @jonnybricks22
    @jonnybricks22 9 месяцев назад +1

    The minute I heard the omission of Josephus quote of what Jesus looked like I stopped listening. Josephus said Jesus was black with prognathism and bushy hair with a part like the other Nazereans. Bogus lecture by revisionists

  • @ConservativeArabNet
    @ConservativeArabNet Год назад

    I notice that Egyptian Muslims seems to influenced by Judean mythology as very old mosques have no minerates nor qibla , washing room outside

  • @evelynmoyer9069
    @evelynmoyer9069 10 месяцев назад

    I like the idea proposed by Joseph Atwill that Caesar's Messiah was created by Josephus.

  • @ghanvedsingh8946
    @ghanvedsingh8946 Год назад

    Who was he and why he matters that much?

  • @wendyhughes2234
    @wendyhughes2234 Год назад +1

    Thank you for this in-depth information. May YUH [God] bless you, your family, and your ministry.

  • @torjusekkje6264
    @torjusekkje6264 7 месяцев назад

    There is a 0% chance, that the shortened version of TF has any substance to it.

  • @AfterBurner369
    @AfterBurner369 Год назад

    Happy 3️⃣7️⃣th Birthday Ben! 🤩🥳😎🍰🧁🍕🥙🥂🎊🎉💃🕺

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_ Год назад

    Watched all of it 1:51:15

  • @g2D1
    @g2D1 Год назад

    Very well said, however, the presenter's arguments could be argued both ways. Since as he states "There are no uncorrupted versions of Josephus" Then one can also say that there may have been a greater, more in-depth mention of Jesus and was redacted from it. One has to remember that Jesus was "Persona Non-Grata within the Sanhedrin and it had tremendous influence over scholars and scribes. There is also mention of Jesus by the Historian "Tacitus" and the mere mention of his name proves that Jesus the man existed :-)

  • @hombrepobre9646
    @hombrepobre9646 Год назад +2

    you know I like this guy, he is humble. I've watched a lot of his lecture

  • @abeldutchover9924
    @abeldutchover9924 Год назад +2

    Josephus was a pen name for Arius Calpurnias Piso a Roman general of Jewish decent.

  • @captainwillygrimm338
    @captainwillygrimm338 Год назад

    "I Know My Disciples and They Know Me." Jesus Of Nazareth, Our Christ. This admonition of our Saviour came to Him as an insult. Our King Trusted In His Disciples....Us.

  • @deathguppie
    @deathguppie Год назад +13

    The biggest problem for me with the 'Jesus paragraph ' isn't just the fact that Josephus suddenly becomes a devout Christian for a few words before going back to being Jewish. It's the fact that the paragraph is literally jammed in the middle of another one. The text fits together better if you simply take the paragraph out completely.

    • @milearsic6303
      @milearsic6303 Год назад

      He actually invented rabbinic Judaism and what’s left as the TRASH and Extra end up in messianic movement they build over 300-700 years and labeled Christianity . In the begin there was no Christ or what’s so ever , they started 3 main fractions : Calcedonian , manecians and Aryan , each of them viewed legend from different understanding

    • @davidgladstone5261
      @davidgladstone5261 Год назад +6

      This was total BS. He didn't know Jesus from Adam.

    • @histguy101
      @histguy101 Год назад +2

      It's pretty widely agreed that some flourishing was added to an existing paragraph, possibly as a copyist footnotes being incorporated into the next copy. Reconstructions have been made.
      The problem with suggesting the whole thing was inserted is that this was referenced in ancient times. It might be explainable if the quote wasn't referenced until the 9th-10th century in Constantinople, where you have more of a bottleneck of ancient Greek manuacripts being copied, but in the 2nd and 3rd century, it would have been more widely disseminated

    • @toosiyabrandt8676
      @toosiyabrandt8676 Год назад +9

      @@milearsic6303
      The Apostles had the ‘ Image made without hands’ which is still with us and has been scientifically authenticated as having been caused by a burst of supercharged radiation at the time of His resurrection ( Robert Rucker nuclear physicist)
      Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua returning soon to reign over the world from Jerusalem.

    • @annascott3542
      @annascott3542 Год назад +1

      @@histguy101 it was referenced by Eusebius, and hen not again for around 3 or 400 years. It sounds Eusebiuen, he was a known liar, even proud of it and we know all our manuscripts go back to one single manuscript: the one from Eusebius’ library. This is based on scholarship that’s come out in recent years.

  • @iamthenotbenamed365
    @iamthenotbenamed365 Год назад +1

    Bedenk; zonder deze vermeende Persoon verdwijnen vele-Verhaaltjes naar het Rijk-der-Fantasten ...

  • @jaredprince4772
    @jaredprince4772 10 месяцев назад

    6:17 No, you have to delete quite a bit more superfluous text than that shown in blue. The following might remain and likely little, if any, more.
    "About this time there lived Jesus, and was a teacher who won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. Pilate had condemned him to a cross, and the tribe of Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared."
    The other parts which I removed but you did not are too pro-Christian to have been written by Josephus himself not a Christian.

  • @CharlesJohnson-ui2pk
    @CharlesJohnson-ui2pk Год назад

    Okay, as a believer, I am tempted to believe Josephus did write those verses, However, why wouldn’t he? Because he’s a devout Jew? The gospel of Christ is all about the devout Jews converting to his message. Why would Josephus’ maybe “Christian “ curiosity. be concerning?

    • @Sphere723
      @Sphere723 4 месяца назад

      Because the rest of the writtings by Josephus make clear he was a Pharrisee, a Jewish philosophical movement very much at odds with early Christianity. On top of that Josephus spends a lot of effort trying to convince his fellow Jews that the Roman Emperor (who is Josephus' Patron), is the Messiah sent by God to rule the Jews.
      A passage where he openly endorses Jesus as the Messiah seems really silly.

  • @jefferyboring4410
    @jefferyboring4410 Год назад

    “We don’t have a un corrupted version” then who’s the one editing the book for their own beliefs? Has one that varies at all been found? “He was the Christ” is that seriously a added foot note? Seems like a very blunt odd thing to add in. He has no proof to substantiate his claim he’s the one editing the text to meet his needs.

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo Год назад +2

    I think this is a deliberate rewrite of history. The Jews in the first century did NOT view the Greek Old Testament (LXX) as a threat but used it as a reliable text. We know the LXX was used in the synagogue because Jesus read out of it in Luke 4. Nobody ever complained in the first century that Paul and the other apostles were using the LXX instead of the Hebrew. That didn't happen until much later. Keep in mind that the Masoretic Text didn't exist prior to the ninth century AD. The MT is a translation of an ancient Hebrew text into Hebrew. It uses vowelizations, diacritical markings - jots and tittles - not found in the ancient Hebrew texts.

  • @simoneneveragain2939
    @simoneneveragain2939 Год назад +1

    OMG!! REAL HISTORY finally!

  • @jayledermann7701
    @jayledermann7701 Год назад

    I agree the reference to Jesus could have been added , however there is no proof he didn't write about him as well. Those early Christians would go to their horrible deaths for their faith , so I would say they saw Jesus do things.

  • @marvinacklin792
    @marvinacklin792 Год назад +1

    Good stuff

  • @bradrichards8122
    @bradrichards8122 Год назад +2

    Odd to discount the text on pure speculation and assumption EVEN with the admission that there is no other versions without this text.
    Seems non-scholarly. More like shoehorning of bias.

  • @Research0digo
    @Research0digo Год назад

    Curious, if this English translation has footnotes to an Index, why there are words that contain the letter J. It should read Yeshua, which could also mean 'Joshua'. 'Jesus' and 'Christ' wouldn't have been used unless Iosephus was fluent in Greek. The text should read Meshiach or Mashiach.
    Yeshua (Jesus is Greek as well) wasn't crucified on a cross, he was nailed to (a) wood, then pierced. Ron Wyatt (RIP) believed that wood happened to be placed along the road into and out of 'J'erusalem, and directly above Hezekiah's cave or grotto, where he (Ron) found what he believed to be the ark of the covenant.
    10:09 So you're trying to convince us that no two copies, especially in different regions were ever checked against each other?
    12:19 Josephus was famous for embellishing.
    16:00ish why would an Iudmean with Roman citizenship write manuscripts in Greek? Aramaic might have been his childhood tongue, but I surmise he wrote in Latin, for a wider audience.
    21:50 when you keep saying "the Bible", are you referring to the Hebrew Bible? Philo was dead in 50AD - as you mentioned the Greek Septuagint, you must be referring to the Hebrew Bible. I wish you would specify, as 50AD is awfully early for a complete Christian Bible. Thanks.

  • @David-w7d4l
    @David-w7d4l 10 месяцев назад

    He does not need a bolo tie. He should have taught ferrisbuellar. Ferris would have been more inspired in his studies😅😊😁

  • @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893
    @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 Год назад

    ""So, a history is more factual, is non-fiction, is academic. It really happened, whereas a story is more imaginary, it's fiction, it's narrative.""

    • @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893
      @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 Год назад

      I guess the problem with history, is that in Danish we seemed to have one world of History being synonyms with story. Oddly enough.... Hmmmm I don't know... mmkay.

  • @cali7150
    @cali7150 Год назад +1

    They always question anything about Jesus 🙄.

    • @Ma1q444
      @Ma1q444 Год назад

      They always do, it’s so funny as well because most atheist claim to be logical but yet they prop conspiracy theorists with literally no basis or evidence just claims.

  • @thinktankindi2664
    @thinktankindi2664 Год назад

    You did not focus on lecture...did you😅?

  • @VayaconDios018
    @VayaconDios018 Год назад

    God dont exists in time, everything is a moment, so free will can and is posible despite God knowing everything.

  • @greenier8658
    @greenier8658 Год назад +1

    Thanks!