this was beautiful! i love how you manage to explain the details about so many stories and topics and at the same time connect different topics and information to paint a coherent picture with a structure, to tell a story in a way
Wonderful video, especially the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who is someone we all need to know about right now. Also now I get why that depressing apocalyptic mecha anime about bad parenting is called Evangelion. Would like to understand though why you’ve attributed “Jehovah” to Jewish tradition. Growing up Jewish, I was taught that was a Christian attempt to recreate the pronunciation of a name of G-d that was lost because only the high priests knew it, and we read it using other names (usually Adonai ‘my lord’) to avoid giving offense by getting it wrong. What does the historical record say?
"Jehovah" came to English through the Germanic route, which used the letter J in place of Y and is pronounced as a Y. Some other languages, like Dutch pronounce J as a Y. In Spanish, J is pronounced as an H. Also in the Germanic language, W is pronounced more like a V. I'm sure the professor can explain it better than I! ☺
Oh, yeah, maybe Yahweh would have been a better transcription to use. Parts of the Hebrew text also uses Elohim as well as Adonai to avoid this problem.
@@Alliterative I was taught that usage of Elohim vs Adonai suggested differences in authorship / when things were written down. It's that still the consensus?
There are many names for God in the Holy Bible, each one addressing a different aspect of His character. Yahweh means "I Am," Elohim means "supreme one" or "mighty one," "Adonai" means "Lord" (with a capital L). Here is an in-depth article on the various names of God: www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/god-names-of.html
Big up man who honours my brother (DASH) Damien Copes memory by highlighting that he was an AYLESBURY man not Peckham boy. Nuff rating to my narm brothers but back in dem days us Aylesbury man were ALL about the paper. We started da road ting in S London. Peckham were bad bwoys. Motivated by beef. We were paper thugs who had bad bwoys around for protection. Sparks taking out Dash was a guilty by association coward move. He was never the target he was just THERE. I will never forget that night at Browns Holborn. The tru warrior he was he managed to climb the stairs whilst bleeding from the gunshot and say SPARKS before taking his last breath. RIP WE MISS YOU BRO. so please if you don't know man or don't know the situation 1st hand don't write silly comments that can be upsetting to real family and friends. Just imagine it was your relatives life people were talking about for mere entertainment.
Another word you missed here is evengeliary, a book that just contains the gospels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary which, like television is one of the rebarbative Greco-Latin hybrids (Latin -arius), though unlike this I suppose evangelion was 'latinised', given gospel in Spanish is evangelio.
That’s an interesting question, and I’m not sure I know the answer. There are a number of sl- words that have a “wet” connotation, like slime, slug, and slobber, so there may be a kind of sound symbolism going on here. They’re not necessarily related but the sound evokes a certain “icky” response.
@@Alliterative huh, thats an interesting connection. And the 'icky' reasoning makes sense. I have always wondered though. Slap, slow, slither, slag (waste metal), slay. Even slouth can have negative connotations. I am trying to avoide examples connected to wetness and insults. Many insult words starting with sl, although i dont need to list em. Only word i can think of without is slang, but even slang words are 'wrong' words if u stretch it a little. Maybe the quality of my examples are slipping a bit. 😊
Thanks for the question. Short answer: no. Longer answer: Sanskrit is an ancestor of modern Hindi, and is part of the Indo-Iranian language group, a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is one of the earliest documented Indo-European languages, but it is not the ancestor of other European and Asian languages but a 'sister' language descended from the same older language group.
Yes, unfortunately the question of "the oldest language" or the "first language" has become deeply political; we regularly get comments from people arguing (forcefully, even offensively sometimes) that Turkish is the "first" language, or Korean, or Greek, or Baltic languages, or Swedish! And it's hard to know what proof will convince those who have political or nationalist or religious reasons to believe in the primacy of their own language. I don't have particular resources to point you to -- other than basic textbooks for historical linguistics, which will lay out the history of the Proto-Indo-European language hypothesis and the reasons that scholars agree that it is correct (even if they argue about the details). I appreciate the work you're doing to try to convince your friends, and wish you luck!
Following the route of the Nobel Prize was a bit of a risk for this video. I had to stop at one point and go back to Martin Luther King, Jr. to remind myself of the connection. Also, you are the first person I have heard say that the authors of the Gospels did not witness the events recorded. How do you know they were not the disciples? Or is that just an assumption?
Thanks for the question. I was following the scholarship; it’s a fundamental principle all textual scholars of the New Testament accept, as per, for instance, Kyle Keefer’s The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
My Mom used to say we were angels before being born. She's catholic of the "Neocatecumenado", not sure how to translate that, so she believes souls don't go directly to heaven but to purgatory to penance for their sins and be allowed to enter heaven later. Souls do not become angels when reaching heaven either thou they can act as messengers to pass on to God the living's prayers, or to "pray for the living". I find it quite fascinating how religion evolves, a great deal, maybe a 70% of what our religions are today didn't exist when they were created. Most has being change because of new economies, location and specially, the modern moral values. I mean, the early Christians could keep slaves without problem but now being a Christian implies not injuring other humans, thou what human means to some it's still for debate, since they still hate the LGBT community so much. And let's not forget the "wife property of the husband" thing... Well, the good thing about human constructions like religion is that they can evolve, so they can change to suit "our" needs better. The more people question their values and were they stand on human rights and respect, the more their customs and believes will change. And we, who are affected and fight can only hope that change will come sooner rather than later.
Fascinating as always! The Endless Knot always takes us in unexpected directions.
Now I don't know what to do, check out the collab playlist or search for some the music by Sister Rosetta Tharpe?
Why not both?!
You can keep saying "Pie root" to save your breath, we won't be offended.
this was beautiful! i love how you manage to explain the details about so many stories and topics and at the same time connect different topics and information to paint a coherent picture with a structure, to tell a story in a way
Tangent piles upon tangent! I love it.
Love your work ❤️
A most splendiferous wealth of information as always !
I had no idea that TNT was first a dye!
Weird, eh? It’s amazing how many substances were created by people looking for dyes in the 19th century.
And now I know where Evengellion the anime has come from.
makes it seem a little lighter in plot , and makes less sense a little
Gospel I name you, Good News; and good news is a good guest they say.
Wonderful video, especially the story of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, who is someone we all need to know about right now. Also now I get why that depressing apocalyptic mecha anime about bad parenting is called Evangelion.
Would like to understand though why you’ve attributed “Jehovah” to Jewish tradition. Growing up Jewish, I was taught that was a Christian attempt to recreate the pronunciation of a name of G-d that was lost because only the high priests knew it, and we read it using other names (usually Adonai ‘my lord’) to avoid giving offense by getting it wrong. What does the historical record say?
"Jehovah" came to English through the Germanic route, which used the letter J in place of Y and is pronounced as a Y. Some other languages, like Dutch pronounce J as a Y. In Spanish, J is pronounced as an H. Also in the Germanic language, W is pronounced more like a V. I'm sure the professor can explain it better than I! ☺
Oh, yeah, maybe Yahweh would have been a better transcription to use. Parts of the Hebrew text also uses Elohim as well as Adonai to avoid this problem.
@@Alliterative I was taught that usage of Elohim vs Adonai suggested differences in authorship / when things were written down. It's that still the consensus?
There are many names for God in the Holy Bible, each one addressing a different aspect of His character. Yahweh means "I Am," Elohim means "supreme one" or "mighty one," "Adonai" means "Lord" (with a capital L). Here is an in-depth article on the various names of God: www.biblestudytools.com/encyclopedias/isbe/god-names-of.html
*This is such a nice video. Lovely*
Thank you!
The four to whom the gospels are ascribed are called "Evangelist" in German
When you started "euangelion" I was waiting for a mention of *that*
have you done a video on names at all?
Colin - not a lot specifically on names, but you might enjoy the channel Name Explain. :)
@@Alliterative Thanks I will try that.
I thought you would mention the Chi-Rho when you were talking about visual shorthand like TNT and bombs.
Cool video though
Thanks. There's always more I could add, always other tangents I could have gone on!
neon genesis euangelion
I had the same thought
Big up man who honours my brother (DASH) Damien Copes memory by highlighting that he was an AYLESBURY man not Peckham boy. Nuff rating to my narm brothers but back in dem days us Aylesbury man were ALL about the paper. We started da road ting in S London. Peckham were bad bwoys. Motivated by beef. We were paper thugs who had bad bwoys around for protection. Sparks taking out Dash was a guilty by association coward move. He was never the target he was just THERE. I will never forget that night at Browns Holborn. The tru warrior he was he managed to climb the stairs whilst bleeding from the gunshot and say SPARKS before taking his last breath. RIP WE MISS YOU BRO.
so please if you don't know man or don't know the situation 1st hand don't write silly comments that can be upsetting to real family and friends. Just imagine it was your relatives life people were talking about for mere entertainment.
I'd /love/ to hear Andrew Henry if you do a related podcast ;)
That’s a great idea! It’ll be a while before we get to this topic in the podcast, but I’ll try to make a note to myself. :)
Another word you missed here is evengeliary, a book that just contains the gospels. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangeliary which, like television is one of the rebarbative Greco-Latin hybrids (Latin -arius), though unlike this I suppose evangelion was 'latinised', given gospel in Spanish is evangelio.
I just realized how few views you get. That's really a shame because I find these connected etymology videos fascinating.
Why does almost every word in english starting with 'sl' have a negative connotation?
That’s an interesting question, and I’m not sure I know the answer. There are a number of sl- words that have a “wet” connotation, like slime, slug, and slobber, so there may be a kind of sound symbolism going on here. They’re not necessarily related but the sound evokes a certain “icky” response.
@@Alliterative huh, thats an interesting connection. And the 'icky' reasoning makes sense. I have always wondered though. Slap, slow, slither, slag (waste metal), slay. Even slouth can have negative connotations. I am trying to avoide examples connected to wetness and insults. Many insult words starting with sl, although i dont need to list em. Only word i can think of without is slang, but even slang words are 'wrong' words if u stretch it a little. Maybe the quality of my examples are slipping a bit. 😊
I have some question regarding linguistics can you please respond ?
You're welcome to send us an email (address in "About") or put your questions here. :)
@@Alliterative ok. Is sanskrit mother of all languages ?
Thanks for the question. Short answer: no. Longer answer: Sanskrit is an ancestor of modern Hindi, and is part of the Indo-Iranian language group, a descendant of Proto-Indo-European. It is one of the earliest documented Indo-European languages, but it is not the ancestor of other European and Asian languages but a 'sister' language descended from the same older language group.
@@Alliterative thats exactly what i am trying to tell my friends but they are ultra hindu nationalist and they are asking for proof
Yes, unfortunately the question of "the oldest language" or the "first language" has become deeply political; we regularly get comments from people arguing (forcefully, even offensively sometimes) that Turkish is the "first" language, or Korean, or Greek, or Baltic languages, or Swedish! And it's hard to know what proof will convince those who have political or nationalist or religious reasons to believe in the primacy of their own language. I don't have particular resources to point you to -- other than basic textbooks for historical linguistics, which will lay out the history of the Proto-Indo-European language hypothesis and the reasons that scholars agree that it is correct (even if they argue about the details). I appreciate the work you're doing to try to convince your friends, and wish you luck!
Following the route of the Nobel Prize was a bit of a risk for this video. I had to stop at one point and go back to Martin Luther King, Jr. to remind myself of the connection. Also, you are the first person I have heard say that the authors of the Gospels did not witness the events recorded. How do you know they were not the disciples? Or is that just an assumption?
Thanks for the question. I was following the scholarship; it’s a fundamental principle all textual scholars of the New Testament accept, as per, for instance, Kyle Keefer’s The New Testament as Literature: A Very Short Introduction
Only the middle part is on subject. Why the diversion to Nobel? People know the history.
Hahhhahaha, in light of the homophobia in most of current Christianity, this is such a glorious story.
My Mom used to say we were angels before being born. She's catholic of the "Neocatecumenado", not sure how to translate that, so she believes souls don't go directly to heaven but to purgatory to penance for their sins and be allowed to enter heaven later. Souls do not become angels when reaching heaven either thou they can act as messengers to pass on to God the living's prayers, or to "pray for the living". I find it quite fascinating how religion evolves, a great deal, maybe a 70% of what our religions are today didn't exist when they were created. Most has being change because of new economies, location and specially, the modern moral values. I mean, the early Christians could keep slaves without problem but now being a Christian implies not injuring other humans, thou what human means to some it's still for debate, since they still hate the LGBT community so much. And let's not forget the "wife property of the husband" thing... Well, the good thing about human constructions like religion is that they can evolve, so they can change to suit "our" needs better. The more people question their values and were they stand on human rights and respect, the more their customs and believes will change. And we, who are affected and fight can only hope that change will come sooner rather than later.