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Lol. Classic

I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean by my intonation. It's the way I speak.

@@GrimDarkHistory I agree, great content and research. I had the same thought about pronunciation. For example, Herod is usually pronounced as “hair-rod” as opposed to “hair-rode”.. not sure if that is what he meant. Either way, great stuff.

@@ChaseEnglund thanks for the listen. Glad you enjoyed it.

Welcome aboard!

Appreciate the feedback. This is just a small part of a much larger interview I had to a historian who specializes in this time and place. Our interview was covering the much larger context of the world and social pressures within and surrounding Jerusalem and Judea. I agree there's not a lot here, because, according to my interview there isn't a lot if any concrete evidence about these groups. What they believed is not written down. Who they were is also not really written down. At best the community at Qumran has been pointed out to maybe being the Essenes, but according to most recent info, that's actually not a definite and the Qumran community may have been their own sect with their own distinct beliefs, and the Pharisees seems to be the ultimate ascendant group and the evolution of their beliefs is what seems to survive into today. I do plan to provide more details on these groups in my 3rd and final episode in the series, but that will be coming out in August. Apologies if this doesn't scratch your itch for details, but there really isn't a lot of solid evidence about who these groups are, or what they believed. At best we know the Pharisees because the evolution of their beliefs is what seems to survive into today, but we also cannot definitively say Pharisees believed X, Y, or Z, because it wasn't written down. This whole time period is about pointing out that these groups have no clear definitions and as much as we'd like to understand them. It's more important to understand the cultural tensions between some of these groups, or at least between powerful people and these groups, and the fallout from that that bleeds through generations into the Roman period I'll be covering in that August episode.

Thanks for your comments. There was actually 10 civil wars by my count over the Maccabees period, at least according to Flavius Josephus. Check out the full podcast and episode 2 in this series releasing July 1 for full Maccabees story

Yes. My podcast is, and will always be free and a passion project to share my love of history with people. So I'm forced to find hobby-budget ways to help engage with the audience who aren't necessarily interested in the long form audio version of the podcast. I thought I'd give this a try and see if enough people enjoyed it that it my be worth investing some more effort into.

Thanks for giving the show a listen.

Thanks for taking the time to listen. Appreciate your taking the time to post a comment. New episodes every first of the month.

Thanks for the watch and comment!

@@Seekstae OH, I see you are truly a genius! Ever get through 3rd grade?

@@johncipolletti5611 cry about it.

Probably the most facinating book on the copper age (and earlier) I've read is a book called The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity. I wish I had read it prior to creating this episode. Some of the content would be different. Covers how societies and civilizations form. What influences them. Talks about a lot of different civilzations from Neolithic to today. A health chunk of examples draw on new ways of thinking of some copper and bronze age societies and their history. Just a warning though the first two chapters can be a little hard to chew through if you're not a sociologist. I struggled with it, but powered through and after those first couple of chapters (which were basically a history of sociology and thought) it started digging into all these societies.

Thanks this series were my very first ones on the podcast from months ago. I'm slowly releasing content on TH-cam. I'm looking to try and make these more visual but that requires some competent video editing skills I don't have. So there's a learning curve there. My newer content is improved. Better research, better audio, and what I hope to be more interesting stories and information. My fall series is on the fall of Babylon starting next month. But if you're an audio podcast fan you can find Grimdark History on all podcast platforms. Hope you enjoyed enough to listen some more. and thanks for listening at all.