Introduction to the Bible (Full Series)
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Chapters:
00:00:00 - Torah
00:16:00 - Prophets
00:38:32 - Writings
01:00:43 - Apocrypha
01:27:03 - Gospels
01:48:17 - Epistles
02:02:48 - Revelation
Introduction to the Qur'an:
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Introduction to the Book of Mormon:
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RECOMMENDED READING:
* Alter, Robert (2011). The Art of Biblical Narrative. Basic Books.
* Baden, Joel (2012). The Composition of the Pentateuch: Renewing the Documentary Hypothesis. Yale University Press.
* Coogan, Michael (2001) The Oxford History of the Biblical World. Oxford University Press
* Finkelstein, Israel & Neil Asher Silberman (2001). The Bible Unearthed. Free Press.
* Kugel, James (2007). How to Read the Bible. Free Press.
* Stein, Robert H. (2001). Studying the Synoptic Gospels: Origin and Interpretation. Baker Academic.
CREDITS:
Charts & Narration by Dr. Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
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Suggestion for this channel: What would be the effect of rescaling some biblical durations by 25/40? The motivation is the observation that some numbers are symbolic such as "40 years" really meaning "a generation" (i.e about 25 years). For example, if you try to reconcile the timelines of Jacob and his son Joseph according to a literal reading of Genesis, it does not work. But if you rescale, then it does.
P.S. H.H. Ben Sassoon, in his history of Israel points out how similar rescaling would work in the period of the Judges to reconcile the story of Jephthah ("300 years" after the conquest of the Amorite lands in Transjordan following the exodus) and the Temple dating from "480 years" after the exodus.
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@@goldengun9970 You're pretty dense.
@@goldengun9970 What you did do is get offended over the fact that Matt is being neutral and presenting both the Christian perspective and the Jewish perspective, without asserting one as true over the other. This is not "presenting facts."
@@goldengun9970 It is not an insult. It is merely an alternative name, coming from a different perspective. The vast majority of Jews that I know personally (and I actually have met quite a lot of them in person) think nothing of it. Anyhow, if this bothers you so much, then why are you watching these videos? It seems to me that all you actually want is an excuse to complain and to hate, rather than contribute meaningfully to the discussion.
You should do a video covering all the books that DIDN'T make it into the Bible. It's much harder to find info on those, so that would be even more useful than these (already great) videos.
I think there are a couple, one on how the NT books were selected (there is a decent Penguin edition of other early christian writings (NOT THE "Apocraphal New Testatment"- which is a muddle of oddments, nor Dead Sea Scrolls Book of Darkness and Light and similar , nor Ayrain view of Christ ), and one covering the Apocrypha - which is part covered here, being the - mainly Greek Jewish writings, which are useful for poetry , wisdom and history, other 2nd Temple writings appear lost, though there are allusions in NT of rabbi (oral?) considerations , mostly Hillai and Gamaiel which Matt has not covered, to my knowledge ( the point being that Jesus taught as one with authority , rather than making just a commentrary )
I regret to inform you that it is mostly a matter of those works being fraudulently attributed to authors, containing contrary theology, and/or containing historical inaccuracies.
I mean, by all means, please dig in. There's a lot of pop culture objections to the Canon because those works exist. It's just not all that amazing to me as a believer that the early church wouldn't have included them except as apocrypha. and then go on to affirm as much in councils to settle the matters publicly. But the more people who actually know the history of it all the better! Let us know what ya dig up!
Cheers 🍻
@@PoisonedByWealth "containing contrary theology" but THAT is the interesting part!
@@PoisonedByWealth Be careful. Apocrypha is mainly from the Jewish (non)acceptance of what was first probably written in Greek, the books and addendum to a couple of other bibilical books are accepted by the Roman Catholic (not certain about the Orthodox churches) and are as about reliable as history/interpretation and understanding of God as the rest of the OT and a little bit of them is quoted by NT writers. Apocryphal books/writings - a good few have been gathered up and published in english, dont have the beauty of Christ as seen in the NT, they are quoted (against general christian belief) by many Islamic writers but just dont ring true, even though the dating of some is very close to the time of Jesus, and some have African origins (dont forget Horn of Africa just a short boat ride from Arabia and other middle eastern views pre christian and not directly Jewish influence so one can see corruption via mis-transmission. These books dont seem to appear or be quoted in the Dead Sea Scrolls (probably as those predate the Apocraphal writings) , and the DSS manuscripts that dont appear in the NT or OT (mostly the battle of Darkness vs Light) at least give understanding of that community's thought and do make interesting reading in how communities from a Jewish Background saw religion developing in a Roman oppressive to people political landscape.
@@highpath4776 As a devout Christian, I have to respectfully but strongly disagree that the apocryphal works carry equal theological or historical weight - this idea is almost exclusively embraced by the Romanist church (Roman 'Catholic') because it gave her leaders a way of justifying doctrines and practices which are otherwise foreign to an orthodox systematic theology. A good example would be paying penance (money for forgiveness) and another is purgatory (a lot to be said there). I grieve you are right on it impotent point, however: The apocryphal writings are a great literary resource for understanding the cultural character of the people from which it came. This might seem debated from a casual look on the outside of Christianity, but this is an oversimplification of the issue, often reserved for those too busy to study the theological nuances of Biblical theology. Perhaps I sound too sure of my stance, or even partisan about it, but I am in very good scholastic and academic company. Cheers 🍻
As someone from a Muslim family I'd love something similar done for the Qur'an but I doubt any observant Muslim would let any academic discussion that challenges the established narratives be discussed. The fact that a Jewish man can remove themselves from their religious narrative and do objective research of this nature is a testament to their honesty and integrity, and is genuinely admirable.
He gotta video about the Quran
as a student of theology I believe that the islamic sources of divine message or books are not up for debate as its history is quite straight and also not as ancient as judaism therefore even less debate on its compilation and source authority
@@user-up1ki1go9j man you need to spend more time in class. Anytime man is writing or speaking on behalf of a god you are dealing with mythology. If man introduced you to a god you are a dealing with a god that was created by man. Dont let them folks lie to you
I think quite a few Muslims would be open to it.
@@Spearca if they keep a certain yard stick to discuss them it would be better as Islamic history is quite recent and the work done in compilation of sacred texts was done quite vigilantly
As someone living in the Evangelical Bible Belt, where the Bible is usually interpreted hyperliterally, your presentation was a brilliant breath of fresh air, and EXACTLY what I was looking for. I look forward to watching all your videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Stay mostly literal, I find the saints along with God himself to be more trustworthy than ever changing narratives of “interpretation”. I’ve seen many of those “10 flaws in the Bible” videos, with a little bit of thinking and a quick google search most of it’s easily dismissed, the rest usually lies in historical context and original Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. God bless ❤✝️
@@TheGymBroSkii Thanks for your thoughtful comment. I definitely agree. It's the historic context that I find most useful, although I appreciate that the ability of each generation to reinterpret the text based on their circumstances (like the Evangelicals in America today) is part of what makes it enduring. What do you recommend then for supporting material to study the Bible?
@@EurekaYoga no problem, I was worried I came of snobbish or something haha. What’s helped me is a indulging in media (mostly videos as they keep me entertained) related to things like Christian commentary on Islam and other religion, Christian commentated history, secular commentated history in relation to Christianity, and as a (currently) non denominational I like to watch a lot about denominations as they each have slightly different interpretations of parts of the Bible but still a basic agreed groundwork of Christianity, this analysis of each denomination and their respective interpretations on certain passages helps me significantly with my understanding. And though I haven’t found a denomination yet, that too could possibly help a Christian study the Bible, with a more set perspective on things. Philosophy plays a role as well, I dabble in stoicism but it’s mostly just Christianity but as a philosophy. I’ve also heard great things about studying the literature and works of saints, especially early saints. The preacher Cliffe Knetchtle is really great and “Redeemed zoomer” has some interesting videos along with the TH-camr Kyle, who makes orthodox Christian content. Anyway, I’m still learning a ton, I love to see such enthusiasm about God, bless you and your journey with God!
@@TheGymBroSkii It's certainly much easier to assume that "god wrote it" than to do real historical research.
@Unknown-jt1jo the vast majority of the population can't travel to historical sights in Israel or ancient Rome to do archeology in their spare time. Historical research for most people imply to simply listen and accept what others said have researched and published.
Same goes for any historic thing or person that we were not present, be it WW2, Napoleon, Caesar, Aristotle, Adam etc.
As a born & raised Christian, it's amazing the amount of knowledge & depth you put into this I can't help but be impressed how candid you were. Thank you for sharing this knowledge & teaching us. Shalom!!!
Love the profile picture lol Shalom brother!
@@josiahamaze Sabbath is no longer for us to keep, otherwise we would ruin the 6th commandments, which says: DO NOT KILL!
Matthew 5:21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:
it is the sabbath or the 6th commandment. Cant have both.
Souls, know and understand the bible as we all should:
2 Timothy 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The 2 most important commandments for us to keep TODAY are:
Matthew 22:37
Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
Matthew 22:39
“And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
but you , the listeners of all these “religious lessons” all blind, devil gives out himself through the hand signs of masonry.
You are still deceived by lucifer and his angelic look and having lack of knowledge about the truth.
Time is passing away, the clock inside each of your chest are ticking.
Drop religions, pick up BIBLE.
A monumental piece of work.. probably the best presentation I've ever seen on the subject!
Yeah, it's 2 and a half hours 😀
the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.
Learning about the cult you grew up in makes your emphasis on ~"which beliefs are based in faith and which are based in verifiable history" completely understandable
Except saying translation is not a big deal. His name is Yeshua not Jesus. There are no J's in Hebrew.
Well said indeed. A great amount of work was put into this presentation and what makes it even more special is a timeline to help guide us through this very rich and detailed information.
What would be mind blowing is if we put this timeline of information up against all of the archeological discoveries that have been confirmed within those timelines. Most importantly the most recent archeological dig of King David and the Tel Dan Inscription.
I am a firm believer that with proper access to very particular areas to establish biblical archeological digs would uncover a multitude of information that would clarify so much. The sad part is the particular areas needed to access for these important digs will not happen as they are under a different jurisdiction which would give a hard no for any exploration.
I love your “Who Wrote The Bible” series so much. I was so excited because I thought this was a new 2 hour long addition to it.
The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them.
@@termination9353. Where do you get your information? How do you verify your truth?
@@EranRicos I verify from the Gospel text itself John 21:24 "This is the disciple[whom Jesus loved/ Lazarus] which testifieth of these things, AND WROTE THESE THINGS: and we[Apostles] know that his testimony is true."
John 11:5
Now Jesus LOVED Martha, and her sister, and LAZARUS
John 11:3
Therefore his sisters sent unto him{Jesus], saying, Lord, behold, HE[Lazarus] WHOM THOU LOVEST is sick..
John11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he[Jesus] LOVED him[Lazarus]!
What "verification" did you ask for from those who told you it's apostle John?
@@EranRicos You asked where I get my truth. I showed you. Now what?
@@termination9353 maybe an odd question but are you a theist or atheïst? If so, why?
As a born again Christian and nerd for history, videos like this make me super happy! I love doing research on how the Bible was formed, written, changed… anything history is right up my alley.
The bible was never changed. Only translation errors.
Agreed! I love the history and mythology aspects of the Hebrew bible.
I have written three manuscripts about the compiling of the OT and the NT. THEY WERE NEVER CHANGED!
Have you considered that there are 2 different creation events? It fits better with Cain finding a wife after he was banished after killing Able. Also in Genesis 20:1-16 describe Abraham presenting his wife as his sister to Pharoah. The second and separate event happened with Issac and Rebecca in Genesis 26. Please sir the way you present the information gives a message that the Bible is corrupt or can not be trusted even though you say it is trust worthy you claim it has mistakes...
@@KurtisLee Never was corrupted. Your ignorance is damning to you. Btw I wouldn’t take biblical info from a Jewish YTer lol. He has obviously never studied, given he references “scholars”. Not to mention this YTer should read the first 3 words in the Jewish Bible/OT in Hebrew and break it done descriptively. He’ll instantly realize Jesus is Lord.
The “change versions come from the cult from “Alexandria” that made the first off-version, In fact all of the different versions, except the KJV. This cult was mentioned in Acts. All of the versions come from a cult that didn’t even believe in the divinity of Jesus…let that sink in. Not to mention it’s all for the greed of money for these Bible translators. KJV is non-copyrighted and therefore you can’t make money off of it originally. KJV was gathered together by the old scripts of over 5,000+
God Bless to the Pagans and Jews ❤️ y’all need Jesus
There is an incredible amount of history, theology and philosophical interpretation combined into a seamless format. The graphics you designed make it very easy to follow the very complex ideas that are being conveyed within this amazing video. Very well done, sir. Thank you for your hard work.
I can only imagine how many hours went into putting together this spectacular video, the hours of reading and research, then summarizing it and deciding what to leave out. Finally shooting, editing, and narrating it. As a history buff, I love when the Bible and Biblical figures are flushed out with historical and archeological evidence. I realize that religion requires a final leap of faith, but I love when history and artifacts add to and change what we think we know, or confirm it.
MY GOSH. WELL SAID!!
I FEEL THE VERY SAME WAY. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU!!
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Incredible. This is one of the greatest single works ever uploaded to TH-cam. You sir will be remembered for centuries.
I feel this video will be the reason humans will no longer believe in God and will question everything here on. But it is important to believe in God.
@@edwardspencer9397 🤡
@@Nooticus your on a scholarly video, you can’t expect people with intelligence to believe it
@@mr16325 "Intelligent" people once believed in unicorns, Venusian forests and alchemy.
Most of the superstition surrounding the bible and its contents root from illiteracy,- not from bad documentation or understanding on the authors part.
Example;
"Spell" means a magical formula able to conjure something supernatural - to the illiterate idiot, while actually meaning "to read/play".
A musician IS able to "cast a spell" over an audience by playing really good music, because to the audience his performance is unfathomable and borderline magical.
Their ignorance however, is just that - ignorant.
God our Truths ...nano voice bioacoustics mathical ways the hope we realized we must know ... seekers shall find Sharry Edwards ..🗝🌎
This is Amazing! I grew up in a Christian household, never really feeling comfortable with all the ignorance and judging that I experienced coming out of that faith . I decided to study on my own outside of that religion and I've gotten so much fulfillment on a intellectual as well as a spiritual level. I'm now comfortable studying the Bible knowing it's origin and true purpose , this video is totally aligned with knowledge needed to grow inclusively.
I have a dream and in that dream I saw Jesus and he told me that my sister was not anointed come to find out my sister was being a ritualistic Christian she goes to church because my mama goes to church
Edgar Cayce was asked which Bible is the best? He said it does not matter but it only matters you follow the teachings therein.
@@sparky7915 Just curious. What teachings in the Bible other than the obvious 10 commandments do you subscribe to? Do you think there may be "teachings" such as slavery or denial of womens rights that may be questionable?
@@steveferguson698 most people don’t keep the 10 commandments
@@sparky7915do better
Being a visual learner with concept maps and animations, this video is perfect.
This is great, Matt! I love to listen to you before I go to sleep, or when I can’t go back to sleep and the music in between the videos wakes me if I have fallen asleep. Over 2 hours of interesting content for this insomniac is much appreciated. I love your non biased, historical approach to religion! (I have a minor in comparative religion and converted to Judaism years ago so this is all fascinating to me!).
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the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.
@carrie, spend the $5/month so you never have to get woken up again. Cheers.
@@hidjri1445, that sounds about right. The Qu'ran and it's additional scriptures are a hodgepodge of different teachings--e.g., the Jewish and Christian recieved the book and then in the next book it says Jews and Christians are all going to burn in hell. Mohammed wasn't exactly consistent on his teachings ... except Sampson and ants have a chat just like the Bible says donkeys and angels talk. Both are obviously nonsense. But hey, this is just one guy's thoughts.
@@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube
And unto thee have We revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever Scripture was before it, and a watcher over it. So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which hath come unto thee....AL MAIDA 48
Disclaimer: This is not meant as an insult!
I just love to listen to your voice in these videos to fall asleep, it is so soothing to me. Apart from that, when I am still awake, the content is also very interesting of course :)
Greetings from Switzerland and thank you for your videos ✨
Why would you think it's insult? It's a compliment.
Funny
I literally have a "sleep" playlist with these kinds of videos (long, calming voice, no music, no stand out noises) and I put them on to sleep alllllll the time
I watch this on a playback speed of 1.5x. He sounds natural.
😂🤣
Great thanks for all your work, talent and skills. I’ve studied these issues for 30 years and completely concur with your presentation.
This is _SO_ helpful. Time well spent.
I am not at all religious but now have a little tighter grip on all of this history than even my religious relatives do. I am pretty sure they don't really care to know.
Thank you for all of your hard work.
I like how you just assume your family members are stupid lol. Pretty stuffy eh?
@@RallyTheTally Not stupid. Willfully ignorant.
There is a difference.
this series is incredible. with a clear narration and sleek graphs you make a really complicated topic accessible to ppl who don’t have the background to understand all the primary sources and the various theories around them plus their implications. it’s particularly interesting to hear it from someone who is neither christian or a culturally christian atheist. your transparency and your respect for material, factual history, as well as for faith, is as close to neutral as one can get when it comes to religious studies.
I would love to see you dive deeper into the origins of Judaism, the two kingdoms with two origin story theory sounds really interesting and dare I say promising when it comes to the origins of the Israelites and Judaism in general.
It's good to have this as a refresher for everything I learnt and forgot last year.
the prophet mohamd said : The Jews split into seventy-one sects, one of which will be in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of Moses until the coming of Jesus ) and seventy in Hell . The Christians split into seventy-two sects, seventy-one of which will be in Hell and one in Paradise(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone and On the path of jessus until the coming of mohamed). I swear by the One Whose Hand is the soul of Muhammad, my nation will split into seventy-three sects, one of which will be in Paradise and seventy-two in Hell.” It was said: “O Messenger of Allah, who are they?” He said: “The main body(Those who are faithful to God and worship Him alone as salafi as al albanian and ibn otheimin ibn timia ibn kaiim ) .........We must follow the truth and not follow the devil and not follow ourselves.
@@hidjri1445 Ah yes, the copycat.
@@hidjri1445non literal reading about this hadith is basically all abrahamic religions would divide into countless sects and only few of them get the correct interpretations, which is kinda true if you looking nowadays. Still blindly follow literal interpretation from certain sect is pretty much no good as you just being ignorant and avoid academic approaches.
@@lukaswilhelm9290 If you are a Christian or a Jew, pray to God that will guide you from superstition to guidance and logic. But if you are a Salafist Muslim, explain to me where the error is based on the evidence and the approach of the righteous predecessors.
the best review of biblical text that I've ever heard from a 'believer' - very refreshing
You are amazing! It must have taken forever to unknot all the confusions with this Topic. This video is a great resource packed with a lot of information, thank you. ❤
This is my favorite series of yours, and I love everything you do so that's saying a lot. Nice to have it all in one video.
Thank you for the work that you do. Scripture must be interpreted responsibly, and you are helping many to do this. Peace to you. 🙏🏽
I think "1:23:00" should have a footnote indicating it is a hypothesis rather than what actually happened. Since this is academic I think all righteousness must be fulfilled. Great work. Adonai's blessings to you and the team.
He was very clear about that thesis and the reasons why is it increasingly supported. I wouldn't mind a footnote to the archeology and historical studies that support this theory, but he did explain it in the video earlier on.
Personally, I also find it very difficult to put any faith in the Torah's description of one kingdom splitting into two. After all, all the historical research is very clearly pointing to the early Jews simply being a group that emerged out of bronze age Canaan. That includes genomic research. When the bronze age collapse disrupted the region, the iron age gave up the division of Canaan into an array of small kingdoms. The Torah c I'm aims that the Jews slaughtered the Canaanites, but there's no evidence of that. It's way more likely that this story of a unified kingdom beung divided is a literary retelling of that history (the breakup of Canaan art the start of the iron age) probably passed down orally and modified through many retellings.
I absolutely love the series so far! Thank you! I can hardly wait for the rest. Your series on the Bible was nothing short of profound. I've learned more from you than I have going to church since childhood, and I'm 54 years old. More importantly, you've rekindled my curiosity about history, philosophy and the world's religions.
My go to channel for ancient history, this channel should be shown in schools, very easy to understand when shown in chart form, thank you for your hard work 💯🙏🌏
*Then make sure you watch FACTUAL evidence, not citation from one biased side of the story.* There are many real authoritative scholars on this subject with a totally different opinion, just so you know!
Hey Matt, would be intesting with some pedagogical videos on herecies and schisms in Christian history, and the eventual split into orthodox and catholic counterparts. There seem to be a lack of good content on this topic.
Thanks!
Thanks! I love your work and appreciate you so much. Thank you for sharing.
This presentation is even better than I thought it would be.
Amazing job!!
The Twelve
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi
Just typed that to see if I could still remember them in order. To memorise the names of the books of the Bible, you have to get the Twelve in order.
Nobody has ever been named after Haggai.
Thank you Matt for your rigorous work.
Wow. Amazing information about my (including my ancestors) catholic religion for the past 40 decades of my life. First time Ive seen/ watched/heard a presentation from a theist point of view such like this. I now an atheist but I do salute to people in faith and unbelievers to discuss God and faith in a most harmonious ways like this one. Thank you very much. Now I’m buying your charts hihi
YO!!
I’ve been glued to your videos since discovering your page a week ago! My 19yr old son has been following your channel for much longer. Being a “former” Christian-slash-aspiring religious historian, finding this series has been super enriching and beneficial.
I appreciate the way you lay everything out, and how it’s very well-spoken and comprehensive. Not to mention solid in historical research. Definitely gonna check out more & buy these charts 💯
Excellent idea Matt, this is good to have compiled in one spot. Incredible work as usual.
I also like the dual theory because it could also explain why there are two versions of the stories in Genesis, i.e. Adam and Eve and Noah. It makes sense from that point of view as well.
What a great video! Simple and easy to follow. It helps me understand the bible much better. Thank you for a great video!!
Such a great video/series! It really brought me much closer to my own religion (Catholicism) and helped me get into Theology as a whole. The Bible/Tanakh/Quran is such an interesting piece of history it's kinda hard to grasp on how much knowledge, stories, and literature was poured unto it in the span of a couple of centuries.
not a couple of centuries tho lol, if the bible started being written around 800 BCE and ended by 100 CE then it's 9 centuries
Amazing! looking forward to watch the whole video tonight!
Very informative and useful to understanding many bible anomalies "merged into One."
So interesting! My husband is reading the Old Testament through for pure interest right now (he knows some history of religion and is fascinated by Arab and Jewish philosophy, as well as esoterica - thanks Justin Sledge! - and what we NEEDED to understand it all is THIS. Thank you!!
I like the punishments people can inflict on servants and people for DOING NOTHING.. 😂 It’s a vicious book.. oh and what we can eat and not eat.. hysterical.. 😂
Esoterica is an absolutely excellent channel, in fact I saw this video in my reccomends whilst watching one of Esotericas videos, and actually Im also currently reading the Old Testament, Im an Agnostic Atheist my self and though I went to a Christian School we never read any of the bible we were just taught Christian Narratives, so actually reading the source material of those beliefs has been fascinating.
Thank you... As a Christian has been challenging to find individuals that disagree yet do so with respect and dignity.
The very loud and sometimes violent extremes drowned out those that want to openly talk about and honestly learn about both our belief systems and how they are similar and Different.
Again thank you very much for reposting this.
This renders parts of the playlist I saved for myself obsolete. Never mind, I'll just add this one to it as well. Great series. It's easily worth it to watch it repeatedly.
*Then make sure you watch FACTUAL evidence, not citation from one biased side of the story.* There are many real authoritative scholars on this subject with a totally different opinion!
Bible history is so beautiful. Thank you for this masterpiece.
This was wildly outstanding! Loved every moment. Even stopped watching my current Netflix binge and through this whole video up on my TV for the entire duration!
Wow what a great presentation. Salute to you and thanks for the graphs and timeline...that's an excellent way to teach and show visual for us who learn like that. Much appreciated
Thank you so much for combining these! Well done sir!
The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
This goes on for over two hours? That’s fantastic :) thank you very much, this is excellent.
Massive appreciation for the incredibly elegant graphics in this video that help tremendously in understanding this complicated topic
I bet a overwhelming majority of Jews and Christians discovered a lot of new things. Your work and presentation makes a lot of sense to me. Thank you!
Loved this series!! One of my favourites of yours. Here to comment for the algorithm.
Really enjoyed this series, and further enjoy it as a single video.
Was thrilled at just how much I retained from religion class some 30 years ago. A lot of new information and fleshing out as well. I appreciate the comparisons and timelines.
Thank you for your efforts.
Amazing work, very well explained and great schematics and timelines. Even if you're not a believer, this is a fascinating subject, with profound implications in the history of humanity. This is the kind of educational content that matters. I hope this content brings more enlightenment and less fanaticism. Thank you very much for sharing and congratulations!
This does sound very interesting, thank you for your work.
This was SOOOO GOOD! Thank you! This teaching style is so blessed for folks who are visual learners.....I will remember MOST of it because of the visuals/colors :D
Excellent! I'm so glad someone referred me to this channel!
Thank you for your dedication to your craft and always doing such an amazing job. I can't imagine how much work went into this. Also, thank you for opening up to us about the cult that you were in, I'm so glad you were able to get out!
Oh please. "Dedication to his work"???? He earns money talking nonsense to gullible hopefuls.
@@larakaramazova777 ???
@@larakaramazova777 Please elaborate. Why do you see this as nonsense? You must have evidence to debate this teaching?
@@larakaramazova777
It doesn’t matter that he gets paid for making informative videos.
“If” you are a non believer or not interested in his presentation, why are you here? Just to make rude comments & put people down?
He gives an excellent presentation & food for thought, so take it or leave it, but don’t loiter in comments just to be rude or sarcastic.
@@steveferguson698 *There's no teachings here.* It's just a compilation or resume of theories, hypothesis, conjectures (as he himself said) from "SOME" scholars that in order to maintain an ”academic neutrality” initiated their ”evaluation” (not research) with a biased mentality in order to oppose the research already done, and the work of hundreds of other scholars with a different opinion accumulated over many years. *If something is being very well and openly documented, it is the archeological and historical nuances of the most selling book of all times, which happens to be the only real spiritual and supernaturally accurate and well connected with humanity till this day.*
(There's no room for debate here, but this video is ONLY CITING (no factual evidence) the doubting scholars, (against the grain) which are one small part of *all the scholars with real authority on this subject*.)
Very useful indeed. Lots of work on your part.
Much appreciated.
Thank you for this breakdown and explanation. I've never been so out of my league on a topic that I didn't know I was interested in. I love your perspective on how this could be / most likely is a work of fiction but still believe in the underlying message. Cheers
You you should do a video on The Talmud, is so relevant with today's events.
This content is gold. Worth all the effort you put into making this video.
Since I have one exam this semester on the Old Testament and one on the New Testament I’ll just watch this video again and again and again… :D
It's almost like the degree is made up and the knowledge can't be hoarded and you can easily and quickly learn about anything you want to in a matter of hours on the internet... almost, what a crazy world that would be, right?
@@fyr3st0rm65 Not if it's all false information. - The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
@@termination9353 tell me more
@@imefamiliq8172 Can you be more specific. I got lots to tell.
@@termination9353 What is the original gospel of Jesus scroll?
I think most people watching your video have some or the other bias and opinion on the validity of the bible or torah or anything in between. But from what I can see, you did a great job in your research to mention all the important things. I love the structure within this video and how you always come back to the same timeline. It's cohesive and extensive. Thank you very much 🌷
Thank you so much for the clear narrative and your logical structure and historical approach, this is a blessing.
This is helpful and a good job is done with editing. I also appreciate that you state there are multiple theories when going over something and make sure to say when something is your own opinion. I'm Christian and personally am more interested in the New Testament setup than the Old, and what you've outlined is one reason why lol. You have a new subscriber.
I’d love to watch a video about the Talmud; Mishnah and Gemara, Baraitah and Tosefta
Yes, yes, PLEASE N THANKS 🙏
Wonderful video… completely summarized my 1st semester Scripture component! 😊
I'm speechless, you're such a great teacher. Thank you. You've spurred me into studying & research more indepthly now.
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, one of the things we believe is that truths essential for salvation and exaltation were lost from the Bible, and that the Book of Mormon was needed to restore some of those truths. Having watched this video, and now having an understanding of where the books of Bible (likely) came from, I feel I have more of an understanding of how those truths could be lost. Many of the books we have aren’t primary sources, but quote older texts; most weren’t written by the people in the books themselves; and many were written years or hundreds of years later. Combine that with the Apocrypha and the New Testament Apocrypha, and it’s a wonder anyone with this historical literacy can seriously believe in a closed canon.
Anyway, loved the video, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for uploading previous episodes into one single long episode.
The Gospel of Jesus was originally one book, written by Lazarus in consultation with the Apostles [John 21:24] and published soon after Jesus left them on their own. The religion was hijacked by Rome, the Gospel was broken up scrambled adulterated into a bunch of competing narratives. Later four of those adulterated gospels were canonized with falsely ascribed authorship and a Gnosticism cover-story. It was the finding of an original Gospel of Jesus scroll in Jerusalem that gained the Knights Templar power over the Church and their eventual undoing when the church finally retaliated against them Friday 13th.
Since you're a muslim(judging by your name) what is your opinion regarding this academic pov of Bible? Should Quran also need to be studied this way?
@@lukaswilhelm9290 I think every religion appears should also need to be studied this way.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! this means so much
Excellent job and very well thought through and explained. Thank you for sharing this magnificent work.
The funny thing about other cultures influencing the Israelites; those that you either fail to realize or exclude tacitly, is that the Israelite culture could have easily influenced the other cultures they were subject to (or a part of). Therefore, just because the flood myth was propagated in Babylon doesn’t mean that it originated with them. Conversely, just because the Israelites had a flood myth doesn’t mean it was, at all, influenced by Mesopotamian myths. This logic can, and should, be applied to all other aspects of our understanding. I know it’s frustrating, because it means we know less than we think we do, but it is more accurate to think this way.
I love your videos for the honesty and geniality you bring. Just so you know this is a friendly digareement and not an attack 😊
Your work is an epiphany , a wonderful gift to our humanity. Gratitude 🙏
It makes total sense in context, if you know Hebrew. The grammar makes it clear that the woman is already with child, which means that she's not a virgin. Also, Hebrew has another word for virgin but it is not used here. If the whole point is to make it clear that there will be a miraculous virgin birth, you'd they would have used that word, no?
@@UsefulCharts Hey Matt, do you study the Bible as a hobby or are you a scholar? I know you said in one of your videos that you have a PHD in religious studies. Also, do you read and study biblical scholarship extensively or do you only read a few books that are relevant to certain topics that you’re interested in?
I'm a full-time youtuber and not attached to a university so not sure if I'm technically a "scholar" but I'm definitely not just a hobbyist. I try to keep up with everything going on in biblical scholarship and in fact have a publication of my own coming out next year.
@@UsefulCharts oh that’s so cool! I can’t wait for it! Also, you mentioned in the Torah section that you consider the dual origins hypothesis to be the most probable. I was a bit confused while listening to that hypothesis though. It wasn’t anything you did; it was just my head lol. Does it basically say that the Abraham story and the Moses story were originally two competing origin stories for Israel? I know I read somewhere that prophets like Isaiah and Ezekiel mention that certain post exilic Jews had controversies over who owned the land of Judah because some say that Israel’s history began with the Exodus and Moses, while others said that it began with Abraham and the Patriarchs. Is this correct? Also, in the gospels section, you mentioned the Q+ Papias hypothesis. What do you think of The quote from Eusebius about Papias saying that Matthew and Mark both wrote a gospel? And he also associated Mark with the authority of Peter. Do you think this is further evidence that the gospels were written by a “school” of followers associated with the disciples (Matthew, John etc.)?
@@UsefulCharts Its so refreshing to find informative information , especially this religious one, produced as so matter of fact without the usual persuasion one side or the other. I am a believer and find it fascinating to see this aspect of historical account of where our text come from. Thanks.
I'm 29 and I just realized that growing up in church I always had an underlying bias against any Kings mentioned thinking of them as evil or corrupt... There's nothing relevant to this video but just something I realized
I must say, since coming across your channel, my inner bible/relgion nerd has been activated!! LOVE THIS STUFF!!❤
58:28 been wondering the same question. Thanks for answering!
I'm an art historian. I work with archeologists. There's all kinds of academic researchers who are not Christian or Jewish who are interested in these texts for the purposes of understanding history.
I have to admit that I find it strange when people think that the only reason anyone would be interested in the Bible is if you treat it as a holy book. Reading it from a neutral scholarly perspective is so much richer and rewarding than what I experienced in church as a young person. It is so heavily cherry-picked in sermons and there's no real interest in understanding the actual history.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge
THOUGHTS, exactly right. This is dangerous.
Just a few days ago I bought my Bible and although I haven't started reading it yet I think this video will be very useful to me. Thank you sir
Yeah , if you understand from the very beginning that the bible is written by men not by god or Moses - most don't .
I would say this video is very unhelpful for you, it does accurately give the modern liberal consesus on issues of authorship. But all of these have come with the pre assumption that God either doesn't exist, or is limp and can't do the stuff written in the book. For example. With the moses authorship of the pentateuch. They will start, "knowing" that Moses didn't exist, and therefore couldn't have written the pentateuch, so with that assumption other ideas abound to discuss it's authorship. (and can't be agreed upon!)
@@lierox9 You still have to prove that god exists, is "almighty" or Moses did exist and wrote something coming from that god . Very hard mission !
@@seaman5705 An almighty God existing has a large amount of evidence. The universe's existence, the fine-tuning of the universe. Our appreciation of beauty, the general human conception of the spiritual. The vastness, complexity at both the large and minute scales, yet order at all levels. The understandability of physics. Human's many emotions and actions which go beyond evolutionary needs.
Yahweh's existance: The cohesiveness of the bible. The fact that the largest religion in the world started from a poor dude getting killed. (and eye witness accounts that he rose from the dead- who were willing to be murdered for what they saw) the history of the Israelites, and the scriptures that have been meticulously preserved and passed on. The prophecies that have come true. (although every time there's one of these the liberals just assume it was written after the fact). Or even the surprise appearing of monotheism in Egyptian belief, just before the estimated time of Moses' life.
Even if some are disputed, there is definitely a lot of evidence to discuss/look into. Modern people think they're so enlightened not to believe in God. and yet 2000/3000 years ago, people had the same brains we had. the same experiences of the world. Perhaps something mental did happen?
@@lierox9 Nothing form what you say prove the existence of a god . I would quote Stephen Hawking who said that the Universe was not created by God (and many other enlightened minds) and BigBang does not need a god to happen . This need of attributing creation to an almighty entity is because ordinary humans could not understand many things . Same brain , does not mean same knowledge . Not much happened to the brain since 2-3000 years , but some people refused to give up and "blame" a god for everything ( and knowledge accumulated) . Those were exceptions . 99% or more of humans could not understand the concept of gravity as space-time curvature - do you think they could understand the complex quantum mechanics involved in Universe ? No, the information did not exist by that time and the brains were not "prepared " to understand it .
Second aspect is "bombardment" of every human mind with "god talk and threats" from the very beginning of it's existence , by the surrounding society, family and so on. The ones that escape this indoctrination might have a chance to study to understand irrelevance of a god .
About almighty god - this god of yours could not convince almost half of humanity about him being "the only one" . And then there is Satan , who was invented to "excuse" all the "failures" of god .
Also , keep in mind , never to bring Bible as an argument . We are combating here the shit written in the bible , which is taken for granted without any demonstration by people like you . Useless to talk about that Moses guy and receiving of "god's word" . It is just a religious metaphor copied from one religion to another , like many other aspects of religion , including the egyptian "one only god" .
And about Christianity as the biggest religion - it's chance was Constantine (and Theodosius) and the power of Roman Empire at the moment . Without this factors , Christianity might have been a niche religion (like Judaism) or would have disappeared like Amenhotep's religion .
Very thx, and I'm your 617 comments , yeah ! We love you. I appreciate very much your works and your passions.
Thank you for the recommended readings. More video makers need to provide a bibliography.
Truly excellent. I'm glad you escaped and I'm glad you still see the value of knowing these things.
This is very good. Having studied the bible as an evangelical. I was reading and being taught from a faith based prospective. I now study from a true historical non biased view. For me the non biased view is grounded in reality and much easier to believe. Again, my opinion. Not to offend anyones faith or beliefs
Congratulations ! you’ve reach the first steps of becoming an atheist/ agnostic. Keep watching these non biased videos and include to your list some science videos, evolution and many more that’s based and back up by evidence, soon you’ll realize that the world is better without religion that scares people of eternal condemnation if you don’t worship ur god or follow his words😅
@@carlisle761 As an Atheist, stop trying to be a prophet for our non-religion. It's a bad look, people can draw meaning or lack there of from whatever they want.
@@DraKKar360 ty for your comment.
@@Cunt982 My pleasure
Given the way that the algorithm is treating longform content now, combining all these great videos together was a great idea. I made sure to leave a like.
Man, I wish it were as simple as you put it in your excellent video. I've come accross so many sources, with varying degrees of nuance that place this and that book in this and that other place. Nothing definitive here, but you definitely have the best video on TH-cam putting the texts in textual chronology!
It's a complicated area of research. And it be very difficult for non-academics to navigate the scholarship - something that is made all the more difficult by the fact that there's a large number of ahistorical faith-based interpretations of these texts - sometimes incredibly wild and even bizarre ones.
Wow, just wow! So good and generous of you to do such a comprehensive and self-contained work on this topic. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you so much for compiling this series into a single video! Great lecture. Appreciated it a lot and learned so much! Many thanks!
This really is an excellent description and discussion of the Bible and anyone can see that you spent many countless hours researching a multitude of topics to put it together. I also agree with the vast majority of your conclusions; although I would have dated the Old Testament books of Tobit and Daniel, (especially Tobit) in the previous timeline period; since they clearly indicate the effects of the exposure to Babylon and Persia upon the the Jewish peopke(s)
Thanks a lot sir, this a serious piece of work that helped my perspective so much !
An outstanding comprehensive study on how the books of the Bible were written. I’ve been watching the individual videos and I’m finding that this is the best way to understand the difference between the stories and the historical context in each book. It’s so interesting and important to understand how the different bibles were assembled
When I was 16-18 I studied these OT and NT books for my Advanced Level Exams. This was in 1959-1962 My teacher Mr Cledwyn Jones taught us very much a similar explanation of the origins of these books. While this history may only be known to a few then it is now being exposed to many more folk. JEP and D were taught then though without modern refinement. What we young men were taught was that the Bible was a construct of various sources and the NT was NOT written by the disciples. Curious what is now pushed as new knowledge was kown to 16-18 year old schoolboys in Wales in the early 1960s.
"Cledwyn Jones". Doesn't get much more Welsh than that.
Someone actually named a kid 'Cledwyn'?
Notice how scholars (people in long robes) basically teach that the scriptures are lies and not what they claim to be. JEPD is a ridiculous theory that people who don’t understand the scriptures use to try and justify their lack of understanding, because it is only by God that you come to understanding. There are places where the theory breaks a single verse in to all four parts and does so after only one or two words. The JEPD theory makes no logical sense once you understand the purpose of the three patriarchs (Abram/Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob/Israel) and the Moses, Aaron, Joshua characters. Even the two Creation Stories make sense as a single writing when God gives you understanding.
Does not the scriptures state God gives Understanding, God gives Wisdom, and God gives Knowledge?
Not curious at all. False teachers have been around since the beginning.
@@Michael_the_Servant People in long robes
Really?? Is this still the 1800's. It is disappointing to many believers that the Bible didn't just magically appear from the sky one day. How many churches provide actual academic history of this book? Many would rather their members rest on the supernatural theory. And God will open your eyes. I was blind but now I see!!
These videos are outstanding!
this is really gold content. learnt so much, many thanks.
Very nicely done, and very fair to the material as well. It can interesting to approach the books of the Bible from a form-critical position. I've heard the theory that the Epistle to the Hebrews is actually somewhat older, and that references to Jesus were added later to 'baptize' it, so to speak. Martin Luther disliked it and considered removing it (along with James, Jude, and Revelation) from his cut of the New Testment (but ultimately did not). Imagine how different Protestantism would be today without Revelation!
Honestly, this is awesome. I wanted to link my mom to these videos, but she doesn’t really understand playlists, and wouldn’t have any idea how to progress to the next video without getting lost.
My Mom has the same problem. She also thinks there are stacks of stone tablets that have her version of the Bible as well…….
This video is a materpiece. THank yoo for all your efforts and time making these great videos!!!!
*Then make sure you watch FACTUAL evidence, not citation from one biased side of the story.* There are many real authoritative scholars on this subject with a totally different opinion, just so you know!
OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS AS A SINGLE VIDEO IT WAS SO HARD TRYING TO WATCH THIS IN THE ORDER IN QICH YOU MADE IT, I ALMOST READ DANIEL AFTER TANAKH
Wow, I didn't realize the Torah and Old Testament are the same, I knew nothing about the Torah until this video, I am glad you re- shared it , thank you
Technically, they are not. The Torah is the same as the first five books of the Old Testament. The Tanak is pretty much the same as the Old Testament.
@@timlocke3159 I'm familiar with the New Testament and the Old Testament, not familiar with Tanak or Torah
@@melisse003 The Tanakh is basically the old testament for the Jews. it's a synonym for three words. The t stands for Torah, the n stands for Nevi'im (prophets) and the k stands for Ketuvim (writings). The Christian old testament is composed of 39 books while the Tanakh consists of only 22 books. Some of those books are intertwined, that’s what makes it a bit more compact compared to the Christian old testament.
*Don't believe this video* *Be careful.* The Bible isn't a common book! Better read it and commit to the endeavor to prove if all the supernatural attributions are real or not. *~Open your mind, open your spiritual eyes and be ready for the greatest adventure of your whole life.*
This is amazing. Thanks.
I appreciate all of your videos so much. I connect with it even more knowing you were in WCG and we have the same cult upbringing and taught thought process. Thank you so much for all your work!