@LDogSmiles There is nothing wrong with a Google search to find valid information. The challenge is being able to descern the primary sources, and validity of the information found.
“Because I’m cute and Google tends to show results that align with my interests.” Oy vey. Professor Dan, I fear sometimes you are spitting at the rain.
Why do people with fringe ideas always seem to be making videos in their cars? I'm serious. Is it easier to record yourself sitting in a car or something?
It's so that their family can't interrupt their video with, "Oh would you stop with the (anti-Catholic, flat earth, conspiracy, etc.) nonsense and go find something useful to do!".
Car interiors have pretty good acoustics compared to a regular room in a house. If you don't have a dedicated recording space, a car interior is a pretty good alternative.
Basically, vanity. The fabric in the ceiling and seats of the car absorb sounds, preventing slap-back or echo effects. It also tends to absorb higher frequencies a little bit better than lower frequencies, which can pitch the voice a wee bit lower, and can also help reduce some of the side effects of vocal fracking. The three-directional lighting (front & side windows) can help reduce the camera from flattening the face, giving the individual a more defined, less “fatty” look to the face. The lack of overhead lighting can help reduce the appearance of a thinning hairline, especially if you have darker hair shades. And it’s especially helpful if you have just a little bit of grey hair, as the lack of overhead light makes grey hair significantly less likely to catch the eye. So, basically, it is the exact opposite of the other great trope of TikTokers-the bathroom mirror, which hits you with full frontal light that flattens your face, overhead lights, making you look balding and grey, and the hard walls of the bathroom, giving you tons of slap-back audio.
Why is it always the "Pagan" influence of anything? We haven't done anything to these people - we light candles, bake cookies, tend to read a lot. Yeah, we sometimes dress a bit different, but if your all-powerful deity can be toppled by an amalgamation of a book fair, renaissance festival and Home Ec, maybe he's just not that awesome.
It's also a pretty meaningless statement. Oh, culture and practice were influenced by the cultures and practices that preceded them? That's just human society.
@@digitaljanus I get your point. But to Christians, there are two major issues. That is, Christianity wasn't influenced by anything. It came directly from God. I'm sure, every Christian denomination claims their faith is the purest, untainted by pagan influences.
Honestly same goes for anyone "corrupting" or "misinterpreting" scripture. Should a perfect scripture ever at all be misinterpreted or misused? If a wholly good book can be twisted to perform evil, then it only entails that it has to be written better. Now as humans we often can't have perfection, but surely an all powerful god can rite?
Of all the things I've learned from Dan, learning that the Protestants' dismissal of the Apocrypha has far more to do with economics than theology was absolutely the most eye-opening. While also making perfect sense.
@@StevenWaling Young Man that's my point and Dan said there was a time where Protestants subscribed to the Apocrypha. The Early Church and after has always rejected this those teachings
@@bryonstevenson1084 The only things we know about the Maccabean revolt (and the miracle of Hannukah) along with the rise of the Hasmonean rule, is found in the Apocrypha. So discounting these books just deprives you of important information.
She seems to not know about the Eastern Orthodox at all. Also there are books in the Catholic and Orthodox canon that are not in the Ethiopian canon. The Ethiopian canon is the largest canon but even it doesn't contain all the books that some Christians consider scripture.
Very few people not from Orthodox-majority regions seem to acknowledge the existence of churches older than the Church of Rome. Of course, anyone who comes from an Orthodox tradition knows that the Church of Rome was the breakaway movement!
@@fnjesusfreak Which is sad. While both traditions have evolved over time, the different Orthodox churches have some of the oldest surviving Christian traditions in the world. Mt Athos itself has a continuing monastic tradition and liturgy going back at least to late 8th century and likely earlier.
I was about to point that out. I have a copy of the Bible made by Roman Catholic Church in Polish. And I have a copy made by Eastern Orthodox in Church Slavonic. They have different sets of books (the CS one has e.g. Second and Third Book Esdra). And they are both different from the Protestant Canon (both have Machabees) and from the Ethiopian canon (neither has Henoch). So this creator seems to define “everywhere” as “anglo-saxon protestant world”.
@@vampyresgraveyard3307 Off the top of my head, the Ethiopian canon has completely different versions of the Books of the Maccabees (1-3) than the rest of Christian tradition. It also doesn't have 4 & 5 Maccabees which the Syriac Orthodox recognize I believe. There are also several portions of the Hebrew scriptures which may have been canonical and/or are used in Orthodox liturgy. There are some New Testament texts that are likewise iffy but not in the Ethiopian canon.
A lot of what he says is because he has no true understanding of scripture. Such as his videos on homosexuality. He doesn’t understand the concept of holiness and being set free of sin by Christ. He is an atheist so as Paul wrote “the things of God are foolishness to those who are perishing”.
@@farsideofthehill6771 The concept of Holiness is in scripture, Paul wrote in Hebrews “pursue peace with all man, and holiness, without which no man will see the Lord”. Jesus also commanded us to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect, and to “first seek His righteousness” On a personal level my own pursuing Holiness and seeking Gods righteousness, I can say that His Holiness is indescribable, there are no words to do justice to His Holiness and His glory. Seek and you will find.
@@farsideofthehill6771 “Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man will see the Lord” Hebrews 12:14 Seek Him and you will understand what Holiness is, there are no words to describe His glory and Holiness. You have to experience it for yourself.
@@farsideofthehill6771 “Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”. Hebrews 12:14 And yes from personal experience I can say you will experience Gods Holiness when you begin truly seeking Him.
The books not included in Protestant bibles are: Baruch, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Tobit, and Wisdom. Tobit is one of my particular favorites as it's a love story and an adventure with divine intervention. Baruch talks about a time when Israelites became refugees in Babylon. Maccabees includes the story of Hanukkah. Judith talks about a widow who stands up to an invading army. (Granted, it's a work of fiction, but still.) Wisdom has the same vibe as Proverbs. Protestants are missing out! (Bragging in Catholic)
It's also the only historical account of how the Hasmonean dynasty came into power. The books are very valuable regardless of a divine source or not. The fact that they are prevalent among the Dead Sea scrolls shows how important they were to 1st century BCE Jewish writers.
@@fnjesusfreak Tobit is intended to be inspirational fiction. I don't think the author cared about chronology, they were trying to tell a good story (something Martin Luther thought they succeeded at). Also Daniel and Esther don't match up with what we know of history either.
5:22 You should probably clarify what you mean by “that is not historically accurate” because the dynasty that associated themselves with the Solomonic tradition outlined in the Kebra Nagaśt absolutely did reign until 1974 and is technically still around in exile. I understand that you mean a dynasty that actually descended from Solomon didn’t reign until that time, but the so-called “Solomonic dynasty” did reign for 704 years from 1270 to 1974. Also, the most up-to-date scholarly understanding of the Kebra Nagaśt is that its inception as a collected body of traditions largely occurred in the 13th century and even before, it’s simply that its first Ge’ez redaction and various other contemporary politically charged additions were from the early 14th century, but this was already alluded to in the video.
Dude do you know when Solomon supposedly lived around 900 BC we don't have one ounce of proof that the Queen of Sheba was pregnant by King Solomon. We might think it happens but thinking about something happening and proving is two different things. All we got is speculation aka traditional it is said that King Solomon gave the Ark of the Covenant to the Queen of Sheba that also can't be proven.
@@OrthodoxMinistries wow are you stupid? Clearly 1270-1974 ain't nearly beyond 6,000 years ago. We can date things to about 6,000 years ago and beyond that it's guess work. What type of people are you. We don't have any type of books or record of any civilization beyond that.
@@OrthodoxMinistries the Surmerian people is dated to 4100-1750 BCE. They are the oldest civilization that we know about. So where are the others records smart guy ? We don't have anything solid beyond that.
Someone that is misinformed or ignorant about history, or lacks those skills to investigate or lacks critical thinking, doesn't mean they are lying, and it's too bad you got many thumbs up for this accusation and labeling. Do you know their mind and intention, that they purposely stared with a "half-truth" and then spin in for their goals? Now perhaps this influencer has many videos and does this all the time, I don't know, and I'm not sure if that would matter regarding my critique of your accusations.
Does it make me a bad person that I kinda want to see what kind of weird and whacky theology that will happen if American Protestants start adopting the Ethiopian Bible? Not to mention the inevitable KJV-only vs. Ethiopian Bible fights.
Using the CE/BCE terminology does not make one sound scholarly. It actually sounds quite dumb. Date reckoning in any calendar system is always based on some culturally accepted event, whether that is the beginning of a dynasty, an observed astronomical event, or something else that a group of people consider to be worth remembering. What is the reckoning event for the "Common Era"? It's funny that all the dates of CE correspond exactly to the dates reckoned by AD. If you do not want to acknowledge the birth of the Savior, that's fine, but PICK YOUR OWN ORIGIN POINT!
Rich etc: It is precisely because there is no evidence that the "Jesus" figure, as described in the New Testament, actually existed, and because there are many people who are not Christians, that the terms CE and BCE are more appropriate. That way we can all refer to the same point in time without having to imply any acknowledgement of the "Jesus" legends. If we could get the world to agree on a different common reference point - which had nothing to do with the alleged birth of a largely fictional character - I would be all in favour of it, but it is too much like hard work at this point.
The story of the Queen of Sheba appears in religious texts sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Described in the Bible as simply a Queen of the East, modern scholars believe she came from the Kingdom of Axum in Ethiopia, the Kingdom of Saba in Yemen, or both... So thats not historical??
When I went through the catechism, I recall learning that the selection of books that make up the 'bible' is slightly different between the Catholic and Protestant divisions, but also the books of the old testament are different between Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant. I wonder if there are other (maybe slighter) sectarian differences in which books are 'canon'. I was not aware of the Ethiopian bible! Interesting!
@@alexanderfloyd5099 Oh - is that one different from the Roman Catholic canon? I had assumed that, as the RC canon was from ... 350? AD, and the schism wasn't until around 1000 AD, they would be pretty much the same. Do different Orthodox churches have slightly different canons? Like Eastern v Russian v ...
Have a child. In most legal systems it would need to be a male child, but there might be exceptions, and in some systems they can be an adopted. Then they do the same.
I was feeling a bit down today, especially after listening to that young person. But then I saw your comment, and I had a very good laugh. Thank you. I'm going to have a cocktail now.
It seems that reading the Ethiopian texts has a place in our historical understanding similarly to first century Jewish texts. Do you have a recommendation for an English translation of the Ethiopian Bible?
I've looked for a Ethiopian Bible in English, all I was able to find is a paper back book with the Ethiopian flag or the Rasta flag ( I'm not exactly sure , I'm not a flag authority) it's a supplement book that has the books in the Ethiopian canon that are not in the 66 books of the common canon . I've considered ordering it . I think it's available on Amazon and other large book retailers
Dan, I think you were responding to the King James Version of the Bible, NKJV, NIV, and all other Western Bibles. Because if you go back through history, the Ethiopians kept their history. Other than that, to this day, Western authorities continue to maintain nearly complete control over everything from its people. Just this one thing shows that you were responding to Western Bibles, as we always see in EU bible books; English words change over and over, which automatically changes the story. I think your point of argument aligns more with the Western Bibles.
Re: The Catholic Bible has always had the additional 14 texts. 14? You mean 7? Even if you add the eastern Deuterocanon, that doesn't get to 14, so I'm curious if you misspoke or if you had something in mind.
@@EaglesNest1984 again, that's negotiable. Some Christians say Church attendance is part of what it means to follow Christ, pointing to verses like Hebrews 10:25, "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing." Others say that church attendance is not required, because salvation is based on grace through faith, not by works. Ephesians 2:8-9: "We are saved by grace through faith, not by works." Everyone negotiates what the Bible does or does not tell them.
@@benjamintrevino325 no, it is not negotiable though. I’ve never found a church that preaches the truth. The Orthodox Church is the closest I’ve come, but only the teachings of the saints. The modern church which teaches compromise and difference between the laity and monks and different standards is not truth. Nowhere did Christ tell us that the laity can live compromised lives. Being saved by grace means by the power of God, which is why Paul wrote “ensure none of you fail to obtain the grace of God”. This is another teaching that is compromised in the modern church. I agree it’s important to meet with other Christians, but we live in a time of great heresy, it’s very difficult to find others who are living the truth, and not a compromised life. There is zero negotiation for truth. Jesus Christ is the truth, and we are either living His truth or we are not. As James wrote “if we break one point of the law, we are guilty of breaking all of it”
Could you please recommend a bible that has a of the story's and apocrypha . I bought a bible by joyce Myers, the wording didn't feel righ and its missing a lot of verses and story's. Who takes out fasting? It seems that anything that might guideus for our mind and health they are slowly taking out . Pls and ty
Conspiracy theories that revolve around Solomon feel absolutely wild... since Solomon - the wisest person ever, gifted wisdom from God itself - explicitly turned to idolatry due to his various wives and started worshipping other gods (1 Kings 11). So this "uncorrupted, pure" dynasty she's talking about didn't even exist in the legendary history of the Bible.
Then, why are your peers flocking to Ethiopia and even further always making the attempt to decipher ancient texts relentlessly if according to your evaluation almost 50% of the content was not historical ??? Denial in order to dodge the inconvenient truth is a severe failure with severe consequences.🔔
LOL at a Latin Catholic trying to diminish the authority of the Ethiopian Church by claiming that the Queen of Sheba, in the Book of Kings, is fictional. I attended the funeral of a nun once, and the Latin priest read from the Book of Job. He claimed that Job, too, was a fictional character. I felt like punching him. He was reading a eulogy for a woman who dedicated her life to the Church, and he was claiming that it was all about ancient fictions.
You think Job was an actual historical person? That's interesting, can you elaborate? When did he live, and who was he related to? I'm not catholic btw, but have always been told Job was a fictional character.
The early church fathers pretty much are the ones who believed in a 66 canon bible give or take. Thr apocrypha and pseudographia simply were not written to be used to preach the gospel and the pseudographia had a lot of Gnosticism which the early church fathers like Iraneus fought against. It was so much later when the Catholic church accepted to add a couple of those books into their canon and thus exposing their teachings to a dose of gnosticism.
RE: the 14 additional texts of Roman Catholic Bibles. Hi Dan, I'm uncertain about this number. As Catholic and Protestant Bibles share the same New Testament, with its 27 texts, the differences between the two lay in their Old Testaments. Protestant tradition recognizes 39 books in the OT while Catholicism recognizes 46. The seven text difference are those deuterocanonical texts taken from the Septuagint: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, (or, Ecclesiasticus), Judith, Tobit, Baruch (as a part of the letter of Jeremiah), 1st Maccabees, and 2nd Maccabees. Plus there are the Septuagint extensions to Daniel (Prayer of Azariah & the Song of the Three Children; Susanna and Bel and the Dragon--so three more texts) & Esther (basically, chs. 10 - 16). That's 11 if I count correctly. The remaining three would be 1st Esdras ("Ezra"), 2nd Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh--but I didn't think these were canonical for the Vulgate / Catholic Bibles. What am I missing? Are the three inserted as a separate apocryphal section? Thank you much. Love your extensive work--please keep it up!
The works of the Apocrypha translated by Edgar Goodspeed are listed as follows: 1. First Esdras 2. Second Esdras 3. The Book of Tobit 4. The Book of Judith 5. The Additions to Esther 6. The Wisdom of Solomon 7. The Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) 8. The Book of Baruch 9. The Story of Susanna 10. The Song of the Three Children 11. The Story of Bel and the Dragon 12. The Prayer of Manasseh 13. First Maccabees 14. Second Maccabees The Septuagint has some additional works, such as 3 and 4 Maccabees and The Psalms of Solomon. It also has the Letter of Jeremiah as a separate work, but according to the NETS translation of the LXX, the Vulgate makes the Letter the sixth chapter of Baruch rather than a separate work.
@@stevenalexander6713 Thank you for this--but this I already know (your 14. texts of the list are all mentioned in my OP--did you not read it? ). So this leaves my question about the Roman Catholic biblical canon unanswered. To my understanding the Catholic Church does not consider ALL these texts canonical (my OP noted 11 of them), but Prof. McClellan's comment (@ 1:02) suggests, perhaps, all 14 of them are.
Wikipedia has this handy table: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Old_Testament_table There's some confusion because of different numbering/naming of Esdras' books (see note 98).
@@sail2byzantium I think Dan misspoke. Your OP was correct. There are only the 11 you mentioned. I think this problem is caused by Catholics and Protestants using the same term(apocrypha) to mean two different things.
It’s funny that Christian’s believe that if we as people don’t find the answers to questions that scholars are debating to this day then we will be punished by God, God has no desire to punish people for information they did not fully understand, the Bible nor any other religious belief can be empirically proven so why try to empirically disprove it when it only he said she said literally
As someone who familiar with the Ethiopic Bible, I can tell you this; There are verses omitted and at times significantly altered in the western edition even in the so-called 66 books. The Ethiopic Bible does not begin at 3-4 ce, but way before that! Infact there is not one iota of evidence to suggest that it was even translated, it's only you that say that! Also the Lion of Juda reigned in Ethiopia, period.
I'm inclined to agree with you. The Septuagint is shown to be more reliable time and again. The real debate is whether the additional books should be canon which is where the Ethiopian Church and the rest of the Church diverge. However, this woman is still a fool.
Funny how only her version of Christianity is genuine and others are false, corrupt, pagan etc. thus demonstrating her bigotry and hypocrisy in one go.
Question: While almost everything she states is clearly in error, & I'm not defending her in anyway, you stated that what is said in the Bible about Solomon & the Queen of Sheba is "legend, not historical." Can you please provide your references that led you to make that claim? Thank you.
The way I heard it was that Solomon bought a timeshare in Melanesia for his son, and that part of the South Pacific has been called the Solomon Islands ever since.
I hope by CE you mean Christian Era. This world is trying to erase Christ from history and stopped using Anno Domini also known as A.D the YEAR OF OUR LORD.
I think the Bible mentioning the Queen of Sheba does indeed make her historical. At 4:07 you claimed that you believe she is not a historical figure. Over and over people make such claims against the Bible until archaeology proves them wrong over and over again. The Bible is a Historical document. Even Jesus mentions her: Mat 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Archaeology has found many inaccuracies in the Bible, as this very channel can tell you (just for one example: the captivity in Egypt and the Exodus never happened). And we have no idea if Jesus actually said those words; in any case, he was not an historian, so he’s hardly an authority.
@@yohei72 The Brooklyn Papyrus (from around 1800 B.C.) contains a list of the names of 95 Egyptian slaves. 70% of the names are Hebrew, including Asher and Issachar and 10 other names corresponding to the Bible. This is prior to when the Exodus would have happened in around 1400 B.C.Now, what archaeological proof do you have that the Exodus never happened. Lack of evidence isn't evidence. Just as not finding a murder weapon doesn't mean someone wasn't murdered. We know Egypt existed. We know Egypt referenced Israel in its Merneptah Stele. We see Egyptians had Israelite Slaves. And then the Mesha Stele in Jordan has the Moabites/Canaanites mention Israel and their Eternal-Creator JEUE (Jahweh/Jehovah) as being their enemy. All the players are there in the correct places as according to the Bible. But because you don't find finer details in archaeology you seek to use that seeming lack, to invalidate the Bible - no, rather your argument is lacking and invalid. Jesus is the ultimate authority and final Judge. Show Him the respect He deserves. One day we all will stand and give account to Him of our lives: to prove if we are worthy to live and rule with Him forever or whether we should be destroyed because we reject Him and embrace evil. Many Sini inscriptions are said to reference the Exodus: www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-archeological-evidence-of-the-Exodus-Egyptian-Oppression-Hebrew-Conquest-Israel-Sinai-inscriptions-Jacob-in-Egypt-Joseph-Moses-inscription.htm
Why using secular terminology CE and BCE when using calendar made by christian church? If you are bothered by it be free to use alternative calndars such as arabic or Chinese calendars. Its entertaining to see how many people assume roman catholic church is old. The Roman Catholic Church as it is today, in its doctrines and in its administration, did not exist until (at the earliest) the year 1215 AD.
ndr etc: "Why using secular terminology ... etc?" - Why not? Do you not understand what he means? The majority of people on Earth are not Christians. Referring to "AD" is so last century.
@@Nai61a it's important to be respectful isn't it? Hard to argue "there are people somewhere who never heard of it or don't know and they will be sooooo offended" . The calendar is used globally due to its accuracy. Also people who are not Christians (unless they are deranged) are not disrespectful. The host knows better. I would say the same if he disrespected the non Christian calendar.
@@ndr226 I don't think the use of "CE" is worth getting worked up about, frankly. But it could be said that the continued use of the old-fashioned "BC/AD" is imposing Christian assumptions on a non-Christian world which is arguably not very respectful. "BCE/CE" at least has the merit of being inclusive.
@@Nai61a I see your point but it's not old-fashioned since 2024 is counted from the birth of Jewish Rabbi Jesus. Ad/bs is the part of structural design. We learn from the past. Don't we? Some of my favorite things come from the past century (internet, cell phones, to antibiotics). Appreciate your reply.
When I was a kid in the 70’s, the phrase “Queen of Sheba” was a saying- used as follows- “look at her, she’s sitting there with all the candy like the Queen of Sheba!”
We know that was the plan of Pilot. If you can’t beat them join them. By joining Gods people unable them to make a profit off of rewriting the Bible and starting up the Papacy. The Papacy gave themselves authority as next to God. Once they started omitting parts of the Bible, they continued to leave out full verses. I even refuse to read all of the different Bibles out there. Once you change the wording and tone in which it was written. It’s to easy to manipulate the verse.
Well this is all easy to say but the timelines are way off Mr Scholar. 800 years is a huge gap in information, so something isn’t clear and I’m sure as the years roll. More and more will come to light just like the Dead Sea scrolls, your stand for the catholic church is to be admired.
Check out a critical edition like the NRSV. "Critical edition" means it was made by academics focusing on accuracy, and notes explaining the translation choices they made.
I take it the epic of gilgamesh the flood stories all over the world coinciding with the younger dryus pre dating the thorah and the modern bible are all apocryphal as well
This goes to show you that the institutions who have been teaching the scriptures are completely biased and I am shocked surprised and disappointed with Dan McClellan first of all the thing that most people don't seem to understand is the word Ethiopia has a meaning second is that the people you call ethiopians never called themselves that most of the names in the bible are titles these ancient people didn't call themselves by those names outsiders did ie(Greeks, Assyrians ,Persians etc...) Thirdly anywhere quote on quote black people resided would have been called or considered ethiopia so todays map does not reflect the ancient territories of ethiopia.Fourthly the bible is riddled with ethiopian characters going all the way back to after the great deluge there is literally a city in Iraq called Nimrod who was a ruler and the one who established the Sumerian empire who's father is a Cushite which Cushite are categorized as ethiopians.Lastly there is an obvious effort to not see black people as a part of scripture but I'm sorry that could only happen if you rewrite the bible it's obvious to anyone who reads it and uses common sense Nimrod is in and around Iraq (mesopatamia) then there must have been other Cush people there unless Nimrod was alone and if your in the land of Cush then you would have had to cross the levant to get to Sumer which wouln't have been a problem because the inhabitants of the levant were Canaanites who were family of the Cushites according to scripture and too were most likely considered ethiopians SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pretty much most of the characters in the old testament and new testament scriptures were ethiopians of some sort or another so why would it be so far fetched that Christianity was being practiced by Ethiopian people long before the Greeks Romans and so forth I know Dan is just regirgitating what he learned in Bible University but these numerous fact and simple logic leads me to believe that there is a concerted effort to say we have nothing to do with the bible or maybe you beliveve the Ham became black because of sin and that everyone was white before that but genetics anthropology and Science does't agree with that or maybe the Bible is a bunch of BS you really have to pick and choose because you don't won't to come off looking like a you know what you can fill in the gaps yourself
This is a fascinating topic because it shows how there was never any unity within what we now know as "Christianity." I tend to say, with some bombast to overcome my trepidation, that if there is "a Christianity" it's Catholicism because that's the Christian tradition that exercised the greatest political historical control over what was and has become canon.
The ignorance of history is mind-blowing. Most protestants fail to realise that they are a branch that a few centuries ago separated from what for 15 centuries was the same church led by the pope in Rome. It's like talking cr@p about your father. Having disagreements is ok but you can't deny the DNA relationship.
Not really, no. The Catholic Church claims an inheritance that goes back to Peter, but it is not the sole claimant, or even the strongest claimant. It had the best propaganda and control in the middle ages, and into the Victorian Era, because it ruled it's own state, the Papal States, but within the actual Church of the Roman Empire the bishop of Rome was not significantly more important than any other bishop or patriarch. Canon was not decided by anyone from Rome exclusively, it was decided by congregations and councils, of which Rome was but one of many and no more important, and the councils were not held in Rome, mostly they were held in Greece or Anatolia (the area now known as Turkey, but at the time had been Greek for a very long time). Before 756 there was no real Pope, there was a bishop of Rome, who was nominally a subject of the Roman Emperor, although that had been on the decline for centuries. In 756 the Papal States were formed, free from the Roman Emperor in Constantinople and the Lombard Kingdom of Italy, giving the bishop of Rome a better political position, which only got stronger when their allies the Carolingians got stronger. This, along with the downward trend of other churches that had been co-equals, let them sell their version of events and claims.
This dud, at first he says regarding the queen Sheba and Solomon " it's PROBABLY not historical" only to go on to say categorically " it's not historical". The unwarranted certainty laces most of his breakdowns
daniel etc: Without listening again - and I will, if you insist - I would expect that there is a reason for the use of "probably" in one context and its absence in the other. Calling somebody with Dr McClellan's credentials a "dud" tends to say more about you than it does about Dr McClellan. It just sounds as if you are whining, as if you are desperate to find something to criticise.
@@Nai61a f oh with your Credentialism. Let each persons claim stand for itself and not follow under the cover of some meaningless credentials. When someone is gatekeeping on a high hill don't be surprised when surfs throw stones at them. That he repeats others and doesn't investigate for himself is plain when he has several videos denying Jesus parallels with other figures but fails to mention that early church fathers like Socrates Scholasticus, Epiphanius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Eusebius and etc said a man named Buddas conversed with the apostles in Jerusalem (pre 70) with four books and claimed to have been born from a virgin. They said one of his books was titled Euangelion (Gospel) which would make it the earliest attested book with that title. They say he also went by the name Terebinthus and early legends claim Jesus was born under a terebinth tree ( Arabic / Persian "BUTM tree") Constantine had Abraham's terebinth at Mamre lopped down poss to destroy evidence of Buddhist propaganda in early Christianity. Similarly there are accounts of Europeans cutting down the Buddhist pipal trees (ficus religiosus) imported to Africa. These trees were also said to have prayer rags hung from it AS WAS SAID OF THE TEREBINTH (BUTM) TREE. Regarding my dud comment, dude don't be so sensitive, history is an inheritance common to us all. If you set yourself up as an authority you should also address everyone equally and not hide under being "credentialed"
@@danielhopkins296 Yt comments has become a dysfunctional system, sadly. Dr McClellan - who IS an authority - seems happy to receive constructive comment and criticism, supported by argument and data. I do not think you were offering any of that. For example, if you are persuaded that Sheba was a real person, you could present your data and your reasoning.
Dude obsesses about what is "more accurate", but talks as though he doesn't know the difference between the deuterocanonical books and the apocryphal books. Weird to criticize others for their inaccuracies. I bet he knows the difference, but doesn't bother to be accurate himself.
God aka yahwe = Elohim, elohim =plural, translation of the word elohim = the powerfull ones. Said by the so called god: 'Let Us make (asah) humans in Our image, according to Our likeness'”; US = plural, again proof that we are not talking about one god, but multiple gods. So multiple beings, who are not gods, but not terrestrial, same like the old summerian story of the annunaki, annunaki meaning those who came from the heavens, the story talks about not humans coming to earth, creating humans to be their work force with their own dna and the dna of the human like specimen of that era, in a way an explenation for the missing link in evolution in my opinion.
I just watched this and your video with Aron Ra, and I've been following you on TikTok for a while. I am an agnostic atheist, but I am glad that I have found you here too. I greatly respect your academic credentials and your adherence to authenticity with regard to textual explanations of biblical literature. I subscribed as soon as I found you here, and I greatly value both your scholarship and your opinions. Thank you for what you do.
I’m not sure what an agnostic atheist is, but I’m guessing it means perhaps that you are open to the idea of God. If that’s true then perhaps read the bible for yourself rather than relying on what others say. One can only understand the bible through the power of the Holy Spirit, it doesn’t matter how many credentials someone has or how much someone studies the bible, without the power of God the bible cannot be understood.
@@EaglesNest1984 Which God and Which bible? And how do we know we understand through the holy spirit and not just our cultural understanding, limited translation ability and lack of historical context? Maybe we should learn some of that culture, translation, and history so we can understand it better... maybe even from a credentialed source to make sure its not just some random preacher with an agenda.
@@work3753 There is one God, and His word. We do not need cultural context to understand scripture, we need divine understanding. The word of God is for now, for this generation, and every generation before it. As is written, “God is the same today, tomorrow and forever.” He is unchanging as is His word.
@@EaglesNest1984 I don't know about you, but I need some context. The holy spirit never told me if "Elohim" was plural or if I should be taking the firmament literally or what parts of the law gentiles need to uphold living outside of Israel. I had to study other things to learn that. His word meant different things to different people even if it never changed. Which it certainly has( there are 2 testaments!!)
@@work3753 The Old Testament and it’s laws were a foreshadowing of Christ Himself. For example the Israelites exodus from Egypt is an allegory of our salvation. Spiritual Egypt as is talked about in revelation is a metaphor for this world. When we are born again we are given a promise just as the Israelites were, of the promised land. The promised land represents the Kingdom of Heaven in this allegory. We are lead out of “Egypt” and into the wilderness, where we learn to trust and rely upon God, and this a time of testing where He tests us to see if we truly want Him or will we turn back to the world (Egypt). Many Israelites failed that test and perished in the wilderness because they desired to go back to Egypt. This is just one allegory. The Old Testament was just a foreshadowing of Christ and the New Testament.
I don't think she is stupid. It is very difficult to discern truth and accuracy when it concerns religion. It takes 2 masters and a PhD to sometimes cut through the BS.
@@ds6972 She is stupid by definition .. but as usual, she might not be responsible for that. She is a victim of religion, it is very hard to get out of this kind of damage by yourself.
@@ds6972 I found an interesting clip today in which Dan admits that the Book of Mormon is "firmly" not historical (read: Bible fan fiction), but he feels it's not "entirely irrational" for people to put their faith in it (as he does). That just seems like a weird position to me; to not believe something to be true, but to invest faith in it anyway.
@@user-pm3mw8xw8d I dont think it is. Faith I think is in a different portion of our brain, separate from logic. Governed by different rules. While logic can make it stronger, it is not necessary. Faith in our partners, children, work, career, sports team, etc. Faith in god (or God) is no different. My $.02.
@@user-pm3mw8xw8dYou can acknowledge that there is no data to support the historicity of something you believe in. I believe in Jesus’ resurrection, but trying to argue it was historical would be a fool’s errand.
I think it's best if you're white to not comment on Ethiopian religions and cultures or any African religion and cultures. There is plenty of other topics to talk about.
There are seven BOOKS in the Catholic bible that Protestants call apocryphal. There are four extended PASSAGES called apocryphal found in books recognized as canonical by all Christians. Confusion comes in when Catholics and Protestants both call Esdras and Enoch apocryphal. They use the same term to mean two different things.
@@ThinkitThrough-kd4fn I'm just saying that you are claiming there are only 7, then you mean the deuterocanon not the apocrypha. Apocrypha is much wider term that encompasses all sorts of books. It even applies to books that didn't quite make it into the New Testament as well like the Infancy Gospel of James, Gospel of Peter, the Epistle of Barnabas, or the Shepherd of Hermas. The latter two are even in the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible.
Wait, the Queen of Sheba isn't a historical figure? What was the purpose of her being mentioned in the Bible, was she a symbol or a metaphor? (Or perhaps a woman of high authority but not necessarily a "queen" in the strictest sense?)
I find many aspects of his argument strange. He says The queen of Sheba "wasn't Ethiopian" but that she was from "Saba'". He also says the Ethiopians were introduced to Christianity through the Aksumites...... But the Sabaeans are ancestors of the Aksumites, and the Aksumites were the ones who translated the bible into Ge'ez, and are the cultural ancestors of most Ethiopian christians. So even if the Queen of Sheba was born on the Arabian peninsula, she would still be the ancestor of the people who translated the Ethiopian bible we have today. Even if she wasn't a historical figure or a Queen in the strictest sense, this passage would suggest an ancient connection between Hebrews and Ethiopia that would lend legitimacy to their scripture. Definitely more legitimate than the KJV
@yohei72 There's evidence that jesus existed?? Where? So let me guess ,the same bible that mentions jesus also lies about Queen Sheba?? Therefore, the bible has many discrepancies, and therefore, we can arrive at the conclusion that it can not be relied on altogether
Gotta admit, it is interesting to see some form of protestant praise another sect. The catholics are bad but somehow the ethiopians are not. Kinda unusual. Usually the line is, all groups except mine are bad.
Yea, I mean I wouldn’t assume the girl is a Protestant but I think it’s likely that Catholicism is much more similar to the Tewahedo church than what she believes which is pretty ironic.
As a fan of scholarship with a serious interests in historical facts, I enjoy moments of creative narratives. Afterall, I grew up submerged in a culture that insisted upon the inerrancy of the KJV 1611. The entertaining content creator is a delightful interlude of fantasy, telling a wonderful story rhapsodizing about the wonderful Queen of Sheeba. Enjoy the moment, for Monday morning will be here far too soon and the hard facts of archeology will bear down upon your moment of hope. For I wish the Queen were a fact rather than a fantasy.
Rastafari mon. I encountered this line of reasoning in bible school about 20 years ago, and my teacher dismantled it almost as effectively as you did here.
Jeez, Dan, what kind of a religion would it be if one couldn't just say that all the stories one likes are historically accurate and the rest are corrupted?
The lady has gone overboard with rumors and legends. She has not checked anything from a scholarly perspective. She has a few true points, most of which you acknowledged. Since you doubt the historicity of the Queen of Sheba; a figure mentioned by Christ as the "Queen of the South:, then you also bring into question the historicity of King David and King Solomon. If you agree with that then you are consistent and that is important.
Apropos of nothing, if the Solominic Dynasty reined in Ethiopia until 1974, then the woman in the video needs to accept the fact that Ethiopia didn't ban slavery until August of 1942. So if we're looking to this text as being "uncorrupted," we have to accept that the associated (immoral) ideologies that permeated Ethiopia sprang by inference from the text.
Correction : 1. Slavery was banned in Ethiopia way before 1942 by the decree of Emperor Menelik II even though the practice lingered on to a later time. 2. What corrupted ideologies can you point out to the rest of us please?
I'm waiting for her saying that Ethiopia is actually Wakanda
It basically is Wakanda if Wakanda had none of the super advanced tech stuff.
It is Wakanda!
@@sanguillotine but still, ethiopia is not wakanda.
@@AarmOZ84 really? how?
@@marvelstark3797 I don’t think I said it was
"Allow me to lecture you after I did a 15 minutes Google search that made me an expert on the topic. "
People always say they did “research” when they really mean Google search
More likely, she's had some months or years of anti-Catholic indoctrination.
I am no friend of the RCC, but not on the grounds she's talking about.
@LDogSmiles There is nothing wrong with a Google search to find valid information. The challenge is being able to descern the primary sources, and validity of the information found.
it is still a good thing if its really coming from google.. worst if she gets it on tiktok or social media
“Because I’m cute and Google tends to show results that align with my interests.” Oy vey. Professor Dan, I fear sometimes you are spitting at the rain.
Why do people with fringe ideas always seem to be making videos in their cars? I'm serious. Is it easier to record yourself sitting in a car or something?
It's so that their family can't interrupt their video with, "Oh would you stop with the (anti-Catholic, flat earth, conspiracy, etc.) nonsense and go find something useful to do!".
Car interiors have pretty good acoustics compared to a regular room in a house. If you don't have a dedicated recording space, a car interior is a pretty good alternative.
The lighting is also better in a car: Broad diffused frontal light and all light from overhead is blocked. Perfect for portraiture.
Basically, vanity.
The fabric in the ceiling and seats of the car absorb sounds, preventing slap-back or echo effects. It also tends to absorb higher frequencies a little bit better than lower frequencies, which can pitch the voice a wee bit lower, and can also help reduce some of the side effects of vocal fracking.
The three-directional lighting (front & side windows) can help reduce the camera from flattening the face, giving the individual a more defined, less “fatty” look to the face. The lack of overhead lighting can help reduce the appearance of a thinning hairline, especially if you have darker hair shades. And it’s especially helpful if you have just a little bit of grey hair, as the lack of overhead light makes grey hair significantly less likely to catch the eye.
So, basically, it is the exact opposite of the other great trope of TikTokers-the bathroom mirror, which hits you with full frontal light that flattens your face, overhead lights, making you look balding and grey, and the hard walls of the bathroom, giving you tons of slap-back audio.
And yes, the above absolutely does mean that all throughout your day, you will never look as bad as you do in your bathroom mirror.
You’re welcome.
Why is it always the "Pagan" influence of anything? We haven't done anything to these people - we light candles, bake cookies, tend to read a lot. Yeah, we sometimes dress a bit different, but if your all-powerful deity can be toppled by an amalgamation of a book fair, renaissance festival and Home Ec, maybe he's just not that awesome.
It's also a pretty meaningless statement. Oh, culture and practice were influenced by the cultures and practices that preceded them? That's just human society.
@@digitaljanus I get your point. But to Christians, there are two major issues. That is, Christianity wasn't influenced by anything. It came directly from God. I'm sure, every Christian denomination claims their faith is the purest, untainted by pagan influences.
Honestly same goes for anyone "corrupting" or "misinterpreting" scripture.
Should a perfect scripture ever at all be misinterpreted or misused?
If a wholly good book can be twisted to perform evil, then it only entails that it has to be written better. Now as humans we often can't have perfection, but surely an all powerful god can rite?
How is it that the perfect atheism of my infancy was corrupted?
Pagan, as in non-Christian; not the current fashionable, make up your own religion, form of paganism.
Of all the things I've learned from Dan, learning that the Protestants' dismissal of the Apocrypha has far more to do with economics than theology was absolutely the most eye-opening. While also making perfect sense.
No wrong totally theology. Like infant baptism, Praying for the dead, or Mary as our intercessor.
None of which are in the Apocrypha which is entirely pre-NT. @@bryonstevenson1084
@@StevenWaling Young Man that's my point and Dan said there was a time where Protestants subscribed to the Apocrypha. The Early Church and after has always rejected this those teachings
@@StevenWaling All I know is Jesus is the Answer
@@bryonstevenson1084 The only things we know about the Maccabean revolt (and the miracle of Hannukah) along with the rise of the Hasmonean rule, is found in the Apocrypha. So discounting these books just deprives you of important information.
She seems to not know about the Eastern Orthodox at all. Also there are books in the Catholic and Orthodox canon that are not in the Ethiopian canon. The Ethiopian canon is the largest canon but even it doesn't contain all the books that some Christians consider scripture.
Very few people not from Orthodox-majority regions seem to acknowledge the existence of churches older than the Church of Rome. Of course, anyone who comes from an Orthodox tradition knows that the Church of Rome was the breakaway movement!
@@fnjesusfreak Which is sad. While both traditions have evolved over time, the different Orthodox churches have some of the oldest surviving Christian traditions in the world. Mt Athos itself has a continuing monastic tradition and liturgy going back at least to late 8th century and likely earlier.
I was about to point that out. I have a copy of the Bible made by Roman Catholic Church in Polish. And I have a copy made by Eastern Orthodox in Church Slavonic. They have different sets of books (the CS one has e.g. Second and Third Book Esdra). And they are both different from the Protestant Canon (both have Machabees) and from the Ethiopian canon (neither has Henoch). So this creator seems to define “everywhere” as “anglo-saxon protestant world”.
Which books are those.
@@vampyresgraveyard3307 Off the top of my head, the Ethiopian canon has completely different versions of the Books of the Maccabees (1-3) than the rest of Christian tradition. It also doesn't have 4 & 5 Maccabees which the Syriac Orthodox recognize I believe. There are also several portions of the Hebrew scriptures which may have been canonical and/or are used in Orthodox liturgy. There are some New Testament texts that are likewise iffy but not in the Ethiopian canon.
What is the last thing you want to hear if you are TH-camr who makes content about the Bible? Dr. McClellan saying, "Let's see it."
A lot of what he says is because he has no true understanding of scripture. Such as his videos on homosexuality. He doesn’t understand the concept of holiness and being set free of sin by Christ. He is an atheist so as Paul wrote “the things of God are foolishness to those who are perishing”.
We’re did you get your understanding of the concept of holiness That’s not subjective and trust me bro ideology?
@@farsideofthehill6771 The concept of Holiness is in scripture, Paul wrote in Hebrews “pursue peace with all man, and holiness, without which no man will see the Lord”. Jesus also commanded us to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect, and to “first seek His righteousness”
On a personal level my own pursuing Holiness and seeking Gods righteousness, I can say that His Holiness is indescribable, there are no words to do justice to His Holiness and His glory. Seek and you will find.
@@farsideofthehill6771 “Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man will see the Lord” Hebrews 12:14
Seek Him and you will understand what Holiness is, there are no words to describe His glory and Holiness. You have to experience it for yourself.
@@farsideofthehill6771 “Pursue peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord”. Hebrews 12:14
And yes from personal experience I can say you will experience Gods Holiness when you begin truly seeking Him.
The books not included in Protestant bibles are: Baruch, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Sirach, Tobit, and Wisdom.
Tobit is one of my particular favorites as it's a love story and an adventure with divine intervention. Baruch talks about a time when Israelites became refugees in Babylon. Maccabees includes the story of Hanukkah. Judith talks about a widow who stands up to an invading army. (Granted, it's a work of fiction, but still.) Wisdom has the same vibe as Proverbs.
Protestants are missing out! (Bragging in Catholic)
It's also the only historical account of how the Hasmonean dynasty came into power. The books are very valuable regardless of a divine source or not. The fact that they are prevalent among the Dead Sea scrolls shows how important they were to 1st century BCE Jewish writers.
Plus portions of Esther and Daniel.
The dates in Tobit don't add up, plus the presence of Ahikar as a character makes it suspect.
@@fnjesusfreak Tobit is intended to be inspirational fiction. I don't think the author cared about chronology, they were trying to tell a good story (something Martin Luther thought they succeeded at). Also Daniel and Esther don't match up with what we know of history either.
@@fre2725 As inspirational fiction, I can respect it. As the Inerrant, Inspired Word of God, I cannot. Same for Judith.
5:22 You should probably clarify what you mean by “that is not historically accurate” because the dynasty that associated themselves with the Solomonic tradition outlined in the Kebra Nagaśt absolutely did reign until 1974 and is technically still around in exile. I understand that you mean a dynasty that actually descended from Solomon didn’t reign until that time, but the so-called “Solomonic dynasty” did reign for 704 years from 1270 to 1974. Also, the most up-to-date scholarly understanding of the Kebra Nagaśt is that its inception as a collected body of traditions largely occurred in the 13th century and even before, it’s simply that its first Ge’ez redaction and various other contemporary politically charged additions were from the early 14th century, but this was already alluded to in the video.
He means it's not historical, just a tradition which was passed down.
Dude do you know when Solomon supposedly lived around 900 BC we don't have one ounce of proof that the Queen of Sheba was pregnant by King Solomon. We might think it happens but thinking about something happening and proving is two different things. All we got is speculation aka traditional it is said that King Solomon gave the Ark of the Covenant to the Queen of Sheba that also can't be proven.
@@melvincarter9640 It lasted from 1270- 1974 it is historically accurate where do yall get your info from
@@OrthodoxMinistries wow are you stupid? Clearly 1270-1974 ain't nearly beyond 6,000 years ago. We can date things to about 6,000 years ago and beyond that it's guess work. What type of people are you. We don't have any type of books or record of any civilization beyond that.
@@OrthodoxMinistries the Surmerian people is dated to 4100-1750 BCE. They are the oldest civilization that we know about. So where are the others records smart guy ? We don't have anything solid beyond that.
It's always the amount of confidence that these liars on TikTok have. They start with a half truth, and spin a story of whatever they want from there.
Someone that is misinformed or ignorant about history, or lacks those skills to investigate or lacks critical thinking, doesn't mean they are lying, and it's too bad you got many thumbs up for this accusation and labeling.
Do you know their mind and intention, that they purposely stared with a "half-truth" and then spin in for their goals?
Now perhaps this influencer has many videos and does this all the time, I don't know, and I'm not sure if that would matter regarding my critique of your accusations.
Does it make me a bad person that I kinda want to see what kind of weird and whacky theology that will happen if American Protestants start adopting the Ethiopian Bible? Not to mention the inevitable KJV-only vs. Ethiopian Bible fights.
More isn’t the same as better. It’s just more.
Using the CE/BCE terminology does not make one sound scholarly. It actually sounds quite dumb. Date reckoning in any calendar system is always based on some culturally accepted event, whether that is the beginning of a dynasty, an observed astronomical event, or something else that a group of people consider to be worth remembering.
What is the reckoning event for the "Common Era"? It's funny that all the dates of CE correspond exactly to the dates reckoned by AD. If you do not want to acknowledge the birth of the Savior, that's fine, but PICK YOUR OWN ORIGIN POINT!
Rich etc: It is precisely because there is no evidence that the "Jesus" figure, as described in the New Testament, actually existed, and because there are many people who are not Christians, that the terms CE and BCE are more appropriate. That way we can all refer to the same point in time without having to imply any acknowledgement of the "Jesus" legends.
If we could get the world to agree on a different common reference point - which had nothing to do with the alleged birth of a largely fictional character - I would be all in favour of it, but it is too much like hard work at this point.
Again, THANK YOU!! I benefit so much from ALL of Your discussions!
Your prononciation of Tewahdo is really good. You sound like a native Amharic speaker lol
Yeah, he got that pronunciation perfectly.
He does scholarly research for sure.
The story of the Queen of Sheba appears in religious texts sacred to Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Described in the Bible as simply a Queen of the East, modern scholars believe she came from the Kingdom of Axum in Ethiopia, the Kingdom of Saba in Yemen, or both... So thats not historical??
When I went through the catechism, I recall learning that the selection of books that make up the 'bible' is slightly different between the Catholic and Protestant divisions, but also the books of the old testament are different between Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant.
I wonder if there are other (maybe slighter) sectarian differences in which books are 'canon'.
I was not aware of the Ethiopian bible! Interesting!
Orthodox Bible is something worth checking out too if you’re interested in the different Bibles.
@@alexanderfloyd5099 Oh - is that one different from the Roman Catholic canon? I had assumed that, as the RC canon was from ... 350? AD, and the schism wasn't until around 1000 AD, they would be pretty much the same.
Do different Orthodox churches have slightly different canons? Like Eastern v Russian v ...
@@Phylaetra as a Greek Orthadox we are told by our priests that it is the only unchanged bible in the world.
Catholics, maybe don't vote with the Evangelicals. When they say "Christian", they don't mean you.
How does one intentionally set up a dynasty? Asking for a friend.
First you're going to want to set up an army... I mean, a social club dedicated to war re-enactment.
Have a child. In most legal systems it would need to be a male child, but there might be exceptions, and in some systems they can be an adopted. Then they do the same.
I was feeling a bit down today, especially after listening to that young person. But then I saw your comment, and I had a very good laugh. Thank you. I'm going to have a cocktail now.
@@illinoislewMe too. Except for the cocktail part.
Laughing at your comment helped ease my pain symptoms. Thank you. 😊
Cool story, girl. Maybe you should get a Netflix limited series with that imagination of yours?
That only happens if your son works at Netflix
She should be on the History Channel. Up there with ancient aliens.
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It seems that reading the Ethiopian texts has a place in our historical understanding similarly to first century Jewish texts. Do you have a recommendation for an English translation of the Ethiopian Bible?
I've looked for a Ethiopian Bible in English, all I was able to find is a paper back book with the Ethiopian flag or the Rasta flag ( I'm not exactly sure , I'm not a flag authority) it's a supplement book that has the books in the Ethiopian canon that are not in the 66 books of the common canon .
I've considered ordering it . I think it's available on Amazon and other large book retailers
yeah there are 88 book ethiopian bibles on amazon
@@noota863 I know there are plenty of choices on Amazon. I was asking for a particular translation recommendation
Where's the link to the original post?
Dan, I think you were responding to the King James Version of the Bible, NKJV, NIV, and all other Western Bibles. Because if you go back through history, the Ethiopians kept their history. Other than that, to this day, Western authorities continue to maintain nearly complete control over everything from its people. Just this one thing shows that you were responding to Western Bibles, as we always see in EU bible books; English words change over and over, which automatically changes the story. I think your point of argument aligns more with the Western Bibles.
Re: The Catholic Bible has always had the additional 14 texts.
14? You mean 7? Even if you add the eastern Deuterocanon, that doesn't get to 14, so I'm curious if you misspoke or if you had something in mind.
Ge'ez is such a cool language and cool script.
Hey Dan, well don’t leave us hanging.. which bible would you consider the most accurate and complete? The canon we all know?
I'm surprised more wasn't mentioned about the book enoch.
Good presentation
Another example of how "God's word" is always negotiable.
Only to those who have no understanding of it, such as Dan.
@@EaglesNest1984 are you Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Ethiopian, or some other Christian sect?
@@benjamintrevino325 none, I am a Christian. I follow Christ. I do not belong to any church.
@@EaglesNest1984 again, that's negotiable.
Some Christians say Church attendance is part of what it means to follow Christ, pointing to verses like Hebrews 10:25, "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing."
Others say that church attendance is not required, because salvation is based on grace through faith, not by works. Ephesians 2:8-9: "We are saved by grace through faith, not by works."
Everyone negotiates what the Bible does or does not tell them.
@@benjamintrevino325 no, it is not negotiable though. I’ve never found a church that preaches the truth. The Orthodox Church is the closest I’ve come, but only the teachings of the saints. The modern church which teaches compromise and difference between the laity and monks and different standards is not truth. Nowhere did Christ tell us that the laity can live compromised lives. Being saved by grace means by the power of God, which is why Paul wrote “ensure none of you fail to obtain the grace of God”. This is another teaching that is compromised in the modern church. I agree it’s important to meet with other Christians, but we live in a time of great heresy, it’s very difficult to find others who are living the truth, and not a compromised life. There is zero negotiation for truth. Jesus Christ is the truth, and we are either living His truth or we are not. As James wrote “if we break one point of the law, we are guilty of breaking all of it”
This is the problem with the Bible, it’s been rewritten and revised so many times how could accuracy and the Bible be in the same sentence?
I like how anti religion these people are until an Ethiopian bible pops up on tiktok
She's so smug and obnoxious!
She looks like she had a stroke.
funny you sound smug and obnoxious too!
As an amharic (ethiopian official language ) speaker myself, its wholesome and funny when dan mentions "kebra Nagast", Love it 😅😅
Could you please recommend a bible that has a of the story's and apocrypha . I bought a bible by joyce Myers, the wording didn't feel righ and its missing a lot of verses and story's. Who takes out fasting? It seems that anything that might guideus for our mind and health they are slowly taking out . Pls and ty
Conspiracy theories that revolve around Solomon feel absolutely wild... since Solomon - the wisest person ever, gifted wisdom from God itself - explicitly turned to idolatry due to his various wives and started worshipping other gods (1 Kings 11). So this "uncorrupted, pure" dynasty she's talking about didn't even exist in the legendary history of the Bible.
Then, why are your peers flocking to Ethiopia and even further always making the attempt to decipher ancient texts relentlessly if according to your evaluation almost 50% of the content was not historical ??? Denial in order to dodge the inconvenient truth is a severe failure with severe consequences.🔔
As he explains in this very video, ancient documents have all kinds of value to academics even if their content isn’t literally historical.
LOL at a Latin Catholic trying to diminish the authority of the Ethiopian Church by claiming that the Queen of Sheba, in the Book of Kings, is fictional.
I attended the funeral of a nun once, and the Latin priest read from the Book of Job. He claimed that Job, too, was a fictional character. I felt like punching him. He was reading a eulogy for a woman who dedicated her life to the Church, and he was claiming that it was all about ancient fictions.
You think Job was an actual historical person? That's interesting, can you elaborate? When did he live, and who was he related to? I'm not catholic btw, but have always been told Job was a fictional character.
@@chriss2452 Yes he did actually exist and he was a relative of Abraham. Job was the first book to be written.
The early church fathers pretty much are the ones who believed in a 66 canon bible give or take. Thr apocrypha and pseudographia simply were not written to be used to preach the gospel and the pseudographia had a lot of Gnosticism which the early church fathers like Iraneus fought against. It was so much later when the Catholic church accepted to add a couple of those books into their canon and thus exposing their teachings to a dose of gnosticism.
The catholic church condemneds gnosticism.
RE: the 14 additional texts of Roman Catholic Bibles.
Hi Dan,
I'm uncertain about this number. As Catholic and Protestant Bibles share the same New Testament, with its 27 texts, the differences between the two lay in their Old Testaments. Protestant tradition recognizes 39 books in the OT while Catholicism recognizes 46. The seven text difference are those deuterocanonical texts taken from the Septuagint: Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach, (or, Ecclesiasticus), Judith, Tobit, Baruch (as a part of the letter of Jeremiah), 1st Maccabees, and 2nd Maccabees.
Plus there are the Septuagint extensions to Daniel (Prayer of Azariah & the Song of the Three Children; Susanna and Bel and the Dragon--so three more texts) & Esther (basically, chs. 10 - 16). That's 11 if I count correctly. The remaining three would be 1st Esdras ("Ezra"), 2nd Esdras and the Prayer of Manasseh--but I didn't think these were canonical for the Vulgate / Catholic Bibles. What am I missing? Are the three inserted as a separate apocryphal section?
Thank you much. Love your extensive work--please keep it up!
The works of the Apocrypha translated by Edgar Goodspeed are listed as follows:
1. First Esdras
2. Second Esdras
3. The Book of Tobit
4. The Book of Judith
5. The Additions to Esther
6. The Wisdom of Solomon
7. The Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus)
8. The Book of Baruch
9. The Story of Susanna
10. The Song of the Three Children
11. The Story of Bel and the Dragon
12. The Prayer of Manasseh
13. First Maccabees
14. Second Maccabees
The Septuagint has some additional works, such as 3 and 4 Maccabees and The Psalms of Solomon. It also has the Letter of Jeremiah as a separate work, but according to the NETS translation of the LXX, the Vulgate makes the Letter the sixth chapter of Baruch rather than a separate work.
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Thank you for this--but this I already know (your 14. texts of the list are all mentioned in my OP--did you not read it? ). So this leaves my question about the Roman Catholic biblical canon unanswered. To my understanding the Catholic Church does not consider ALL these texts canonical (my OP noted 11 of them), but Prof. McClellan's comment (@ 1:02) suggests, perhaps, all 14 of them are.
Wikipedia has this handy table: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon#Old_Testament_table There's some confusion because of different numbering/naming of Esdras' books (see note 98).
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Okay. All well and good. But this still doesn't answer my question. But thank you.
@@sail2byzantium I think Dan misspoke. Your OP was correct. There are only the 11 you mentioned. I think this problem is caused by Catholics and Protestants using the same term(apocrypha) to mean two different things.
It’s funny that Christian’s believe that if we as people don’t find the answers to questions that scholars are debating to this day then we will be punished by God, God has no desire to punish people for information they did not fully understand, the Bible nor any other religious belief can be empirically proven so why try to empirically disprove it when it only he said she said literally
As someone who familiar with the Ethiopic Bible, I can tell you this; There are verses omitted and at times significantly altered in the western edition even in the so-called 66 books.
The Ethiopic Bible does not begin at 3-4 ce, but way before that! Infact there is not one iota of evidence to suggest that it was even translated, it's only you that say that!
Also the Lion of Juda reigned in Ethiopia, period.
I'm inclined to agree with you. The Septuagint is shown to be more reliable time and again. The real debate is whether the additional books should be canon which is where the Ethiopian Church and the rest of the Church diverge. However, this woman is still a fool.
Does anyone ever forward Dan's comments to the original posters? Their responses would be interesting
They respond all the time. Some of his videos are in response to creators who take offense to him using their videos
Since it is the oldest known.
Are you not to add or subtract from it as it is stated in revelation?
Funny how only her version of Christianity is genuine and others are false, corrupt, pagan etc. thus demonstrating her bigotry and hypocrisy in one go.
So should we be reading the Ethiopian Bible instead of KJV?
Question: While almost everything she states is clearly in error, & I'm not defending her in anyway, you stated that what is said in the Bible about Solomon & the Queen of Sheba is "legend, not historical." Can you please provide your references that led you to make that claim? Thank you.
The way I heard it was that Solomon bought a timeshare in Melanesia for his son, and that part of the South Pacific has been called the Solomon Islands ever since.
I hope by CE you mean Christian Era. This world is trying to erase Christ from history and stopped using Anno Domini also known as A.D the YEAR OF OUR LORD.
Why don’t you cry about it?
Oh, right, you already did.
The institutional Catholic Church we have today that she seems to be referencing didn’t even exist until the 11th century.
I think the Bible mentioning the Queen of Sheba does indeed make her historical. At 4:07 you claimed that you believe she is not a historical figure. Over and over people make such claims against the Bible until archaeology proves them wrong over and over again. The Bible is a Historical document.
Even Jesus mentions her:
Mat 12:42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the uttermost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
Archaeology has found many inaccuracies in the Bible, as this very channel can tell you (just for one example: the captivity in Egypt and the Exodus never happened). And we have no idea if Jesus actually said those words; in any case, he was not an historian, so he’s hardly an authority.
@@yohei72 The Brooklyn Papyrus (from around 1800 B.C.) contains a list of the names of 95 Egyptian slaves. 70% of the names are Hebrew, including Asher and Issachar and 10 other names corresponding to the Bible. This is prior to when the Exodus would have happened in around 1400 B.C.Now, what archaeological proof do you have that the Exodus never happened. Lack of evidence isn't evidence. Just as not finding a murder weapon doesn't mean someone wasn't murdered. We know Egypt existed. We know Egypt referenced Israel in its Merneptah Stele. We see Egyptians had Israelite Slaves. And then the Mesha Stele in Jordan has the Moabites/Canaanites mention Israel and their Eternal-Creator JEUE (Jahweh/Jehovah) as being their enemy. All the players are there in the correct places as according to the Bible. But because you don't find finer details in archaeology you seek to use that seeming lack, to invalidate the Bible - no, rather your argument is lacking and invalid. Jesus is the ultimate authority and final Judge. Show Him the respect He deserves. One day we all will stand and give account to Him of our lives: to prove if we are worthy to live and rule with Him forever or whether we should be destroyed because we reject Him and embrace evil. Many Sini inscriptions are said to reference the Exodus: www.bible.ca/manuscripts/bible-archeological-evidence-of-the-Exodus-Egyptian-Oppression-Hebrew-Conquest-Israel-Sinai-inscriptions-Jacob-in-Egypt-Joseph-Moses-inscription.htm
Why using secular terminology CE and BCE when using calendar made by christian church?
If you are bothered by it be free to use alternative calndars such as arabic or Chinese calendars.
Its entertaining to see how many people assume roman catholic church is old. The Roman Catholic Church as it is today, in its doctrines and in its administration, did not exist until (at the earliest) the year 1215 AD.
ndr etc: "Why using secular terminology ... etc?" - Why not? Do you not understand what he means? The majority of people on Earth are not Christians. Referring to "AD" is so last century.
@@Nai61a it's important to be respectful isn't it? Hard to argue "there are people somewhere who never heard of it or don't know and they will be sooooo offended" . The calendar is used globally due to its accuracy. Also people who are not Christians (unless they are deranged) are not disrespectful. The host knows better. I would say the same if he disrespected the non Christian calendar.
@@ndr226 I don't think the use of "CE" is worth getting worked up about, frankly. But it could be said that the continued use of the old-fashioned "BC/AD" is imposing Christian assumptions on a non-Christian world which is arguably not very respectful. "BCE/CE" at least has the merit of being inclusive.
@@Nai61a I see your point but it's not old-fashioned since 2024 is counted from the birth of Jewish Rabbi Jesus. Ad/bs is the part of structural design. We learn from the past. Don't we? Some of my favorite things come from the past century (internet, cell phones, to antibiotics). Appreciate your reply.
@@ndr226 Yes, my "so last century" comment was definitely tongue-in-cheek.
4:57 "Kebra Nagast" what it means???
Isn't it Amharic for "book of kings"....
'Glory of Kings'
When I was a kid in the 70’s, the phrase “Queen of Sheba” was a saying- used as follows- “look at her, she’s sitting there with all the candy like the Queen of Sheba!”
We know that was the plan of Pilot. If you can’t beat them join them. By joining Gods people unable them to make a profit off of rewriting the Bible and starting up the Papacy. The Papacy gave themselves authority as next to God. Once they started omitting parts of the Bible, they continued to leave out full verses. I even refuse to read all of the different Bibles out there. Once you change the wording and tone in which it was written. It’s to easy to manipulate the verse.
Well this is all easy to say but the timelines are way off Mr Scholar. 800 years is a huge gap in information, so something isn’t clear and I’m sure as the years roll. More and more will come to light just like the Dead Sea scrolls, your stand for the catholic church is to be admired.
Well that's not completely true either. My Lutheran Bible has 11 apocrypha and it's a new Bible
How can I get a legit bible I can trust? There are so many versions..
Check out a critical edition like the NRSV. "Critical edition" means it was made by academics focusing on accuracy, and notes explaining the translation choices they made.
I take it the epic of gilgamesh the flood stories all over the world coinciding with the younger dryus pre dating the thorah and the modern bible are all apocryphal as well
bro said the Queen of Sheba is not historical. I was with you until you said that. I guess your a liberal scholar. RIP
As I researched the Bible I missed the well known fact that the Catholic Bible has more than 66 books.
That woman's unblinking smile is the stuff of nightmares.
Geeze, right off the bat she claims the Catholic Bible has 66 books. 🙄.
Thanks for this it’s wild how viral these videos go
This goes to show you that the institutions who have been teaching the scriptures are completely biased and I am shocked surprised and disappointed with Dan McClellan first of all the thing that most people don't seem to understand is the word Ethiopia has a meaning second is that the people you call ethiopians never called themselves that most of the names in the bible are titles these ancient people didn't call themselves by those names outsiders did ie(Greeks, Assyrians ,Persians etc...) Thirdly anywhere quote on quote black people resided would have been called or considered ethiopia so todays map does not reflect the ancient territories of ethiopia.Fourthly the bible is riddled with ethiopian characters going all the way back to after the great deluge there is literally a city in Iraq called Nimrod who was a ruler and the one who established the Sumerian empire who's father is a Cushite which Cushite are categorized as ethiopians.Lastly there is an obvious effort to not see black people as a part of scripture but I'm sorry that could only happen if you rewrite the bible it's obvious to anyone who reads it and uses common sense Nimrod is in and around Iraq (mesopatamia) then there must have been other Cush people there unless Nimrod was alone and if your in the land of Cush then you would have had to cross the levant to get to Sumer which wouln't have been a problem because the inhabitants of the levant were Canaanites who were family of the Cushites according to scripture and too were most likely considered ethiopians SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO pretty much most of the characters in the old testament and new testament scriptures were ethiopians of some sort or another so why would it be so far fetched that Christianity was being practiced by Ethiopian people long before the Greeks Romans and so forth I know Dan is just regirgitating what he learned in Bible University but these numerous fact and simple logic leads me to believe that there is a concerted effort to say we have nothing to do with the bible or maybe you beliveve the Ham became black because of sin and that everyone was white before that but genetics anthropology and Science does't agree with that or maybe the Bible is a bunch of BS you really have to pick and choose because you don't won't to come off looking like a you know what you can fill in the gaps yourself
This is a fascinating topic because it shows how there was never any unity within what we now know as "Christianity." I tend to say, with some bombast to overcome my trepidation, that if there is "a Christianity" it's Catholicism because that's the Christian tradition that exercised the greatest political historical control over what was and has become canon.
The ignorance of history is mind-blowing. Most protestants fail to realise that they are a branch that a few centuries ago separated from what for 15 centuries was the same church led by the pope in Rome. It's like talking cr@p about your father. Having disagreements is ok but you can't deny the DNA relationship.
Not really, no.
The Catholic Church claims an inheritance that goes back to Peter, but it is not the sole claimant, or even the strongest claimant. It had the best propaganda and control in the middle ages, and into the Victorian Era, because it ruled it's own state, the Papal States, but within the actual Church of the Roman Empire the bishop of Rome was not significantly more important than any other bishop or patriarch. Canon was not decided by anyone from Rome exclusively, it was decided by congregations and councils, of which Rome was but one of many and no more important, and the councils were not held in Rome, mostly they were held in Greece or Anatolia (the area now known as Turkey, but at the time had been Greek for a very long time).
Before 756 there was no real Pope, there was a bishop of Rome, who was nominally a subject of the Roman Emperor, although that had been on the decline for centuries. In 756 the Papal States were formed, free from the Roman Emperor in Constantinople and the Lombard Kingdom of Italy, giving the bishop of Rome a better political position, which only got stronger when their allies the Carolingians got stronger. This, along with the downward trend of other churches that had been co-equals, let them sell their version of events and claims.
@@pansepot1490 Ikr?! Claiming that the Catholic church was corrupted since the beginning demolishes sola scriptura.
@@Lowlandlord On what sources do you assert knowledge of the "actual church of the Roman Empire?"
Because Christianity has never been a religion. Religion is man made. Being a Christian is knowing God and that is personal and intimate.
Dan, I would call you heretic, but you’re not even a believer. I would be incorrect by calling you a heretic. You are just not a Christian.
This dud, at first he says regarding the queen Sheba and Solomon " it's PROBABLY not historical" only to go on to say categorically " it's not historical". The unwarranted certainty laces most of his breakdowns
daniel etc: Without listening again - and I will, if you insist - I would expect that there is a reason for the use of "probably" in one context and its absence in the other.
Calling somebody with Dr McClellan's credentials a "dud" tends to say more about you than it does about Dr McClellan. It just sounds as if you are whining, as if you are desperate to find something to criticise.
@@Nai61a f oh with your Credentialism. Let each persons claim stand for itself and not follow under the cover of some meaningless credentials. When someone is gatekeeping on a high hill don't be surprised when surfs throw stones at them. That he repeats others and doesn't investigate for himself is plain when he has several videos denying Jesus parallels with other figures but fails to mention that early church fathers like Socrates Scholasticus, Epiphanius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Eusebius and etc said a man named Buddas conversed with the apostles in Jerusalem (pre 70) with four books and claimed to have been born from a virgin. They said one of his books was titled Euangelion (Gospel) which would make it the earliest attested book with that title. They say he also went by the name Terebinthus and early legends claim Jesus was born under a terebinth tree ( Arabic / Persian "BUTM tree") Constantine had Abraham's terebinth at Mamre lopped down poss to destroy evidence of Buddhist propaganda in early Christianity. Similarly there are accounts of Europeans cutting down the Buddhist pipal trees (ficus religiosus) imported to Africa. These trees were also said to have prayer rags hung from it AS WAS SAID OF THE TEREBINTH (BUTM) TREE.
Regarding my dud comment, dude don't be so sensitive, history is an inheritance common to us all. If you set yourself up as an authority you should also address everyone equally and not hide under being "credentialed"
@@Nai61a I made a lengthy response but someone deleted it. If you set yourself up on a hill as an authority don't come crying when people throw stones
@@danielhopkins296 Yt comments has become a dysfunctional system, sadly.
Dr McClellan - who IS an authority - seems happy to receive constructive comment and criticism, supported by argument and data. I do not think you were offering any of that. For example, if you are persuaded that Sheba was a real person, you could present your data and your reasoning.
Dude obsesses about what is "more accurate", but talks as though he doesn't know the difference between the deuterocanonical books and the apocryphal books. Weird to criticize others for their inaccuracies. I bet he knows the difference, but doesn't bother to be accurate himself.
God aka yahwe = Elohim, elohim =plural, translation of the word elohim = the powerfull ones. Said by the so called god: 'Let Us make (asah) humans in Our image, according to Our likeness'”; US = plural, again proof that we are not talking about one god, but multiple gods. So multiple beings, who are not gods, but not terrestrial, same like the old summerian story of the annunaki, annunaki meaning those who came from the heavens, the story talks about not humans coming to earth, creating humans to be their work force with their own dna and the dna of the human like specimen of that era, in a way an explenation for the missing link in evolution in my opinion.
I just watched this and your video with Aron Ra, and I've been following you on TikTok for a while. I am an agnostic atheist, but I am glad that I have found you here too. I greatly respect your academic credentials and your adherence to authenticity with regard to textual explanations of biblical literature. I subscribed as soon as I found you here, and I greatly value both your scholarship and your opinions. Thank you for what you do.
I’m not sure what an agnostic atheist is, but I’m guessing it means perhaps that you are open to the idea of God. If that’s true then perhaps read the bible for yourself rather than relying on what others say. One can only understand the bible through the power of the Holy Spirit, it doesn’t matter how many credentials someone has or how much someone studies the bible, without the power of God the bible cannot be understood.
@@EaglesNest1984 Which God and Which bible? And how do we know we understand through the holy spirit and not just our cultural understanding, limited translation ability and lack of historical context? Maybe we should learn some of that culture, translation, and history so we can understand it better... maybe even from a credentialed source to make sure its not just some random preacher with an agenda.
@@work3753 There is one God, and His word. We do not need cultural context to understand scripture, we need divine understanding. The word of God is for now, for this generation, and every generation before it. As is written, “God is the same today, tomorrow and forever.” He is unchanging as is His word.
@@EaglesNest1984 I don't know about you, but I need some context. The holy spirit never told me if "Elohim" was plural or if I should be taking the firmament literally or what parts of the law gentiles need to uphold living outside of Israel. I had to study other things to learn that. His word meant different things to different people even if it never changed. Which it certainly has( there are 2 testaments!!)
@@work3753 The Old Testament and it’s laws were a foreshadowing of Christ Himself. For example the Israelites exodus from Egypt is an allegory of our salvation. Spiritual Egypt as is talked about in revelation is a metaphor for this world. When we are born again we are given a promise just as the Israelites were, of the promised land. The promised land represents the Kingdom of Heaven in this allegory. We are lead out of “Egypt” and into the wilderness, where we learn to trust and rely upon God, and this a time of testing where He tests us to see if we truly want Him or will we turn back to the world (Egypt). Many Israelites failed that test and perished in the wilderness because they desired to go back to Egypt. This is just one allegory. The Old Testament was just a foreshadowing of Christ and the New Testament.
To say the book of Enoch is out there is an understatement. But most of the stories in the rest of the Bible are "out there" too.
Aren't you getting tired of correcting stupid people? I applaud your stamina!
I don't think she is stupid. It is very difficult to discern truth and accuracy when it concerns religion. It takes 2 masters and a PhD to sometimes cut through the BS.
@@ds6972 She is stupid by definition .. but as usual, she might not be responsible for that. She is a victim of religion, it is very hard to get out of this kind of damage by yourself.
@@ds6972 I found an interesting clip today in which Dan admits that the Book of Mormon is "firmly" not historical (read: Bible fan fiction), but he feels it's not "entirely irrational" for people to put their faith in it (as he does).
That just seems like a weird position to me; to not believe something to be true, but to invest faith in it anyway.
@@user-pm3mw8xw8d I dont think it is. Faith I think is in a different portion of our brain, separate from logic. Governed by different rules. While logic can make it stronger, it is not necessary. Faith in our partners, children, work, career, sports team, etc. Faith in god (or God) is no different. My $.02.
@@user-pm3mw8xw8dYou can acknowledge that there is no data to support the historicity of something you believe in. I believe in Jesus’ resurrection, but trying to argue it was historical would be a fool’s errand.
I think it's best if you're white to not comment on Ethiopian religions and cultures or any African religion and cultures. There is plenty of other topics to talk about.
if the Septuagint is not the most accurate, then what is the most accurate? the Massoretic? hehehe it's laughable
"I think it's unlikely" - woooff going hard Dan! 😅
Another great breakdown, thank you.
Ancient Greek is the original text.
It’s not from Greek why do you act like you know better
This TH-cam video presenter denies the historicity of the Queen of Sheba...how many more biblical figures will he deny?
Many! As do most Biblical scholars.
Aren't there only 7 apocryphal works?
... Where did you get that? There are a lot. Sirach, Baruch, 1 and 2 Esdras, Tobit, the various Maccabees and Enochs... etc.
There are seven BOOKS in the Catholic bible that Protestants call apocryphal. There are four extended PASSAGES called apocryphal found in books recognized as canonical by all Christians. Confusion comes in when Catholics and Protestants both call Esdras and Enoch apocryphal. They use the same term to mean two different things.
@@ThinkitThrough-kd4fn If you're talking about the books in the Catholic versions of the Bible then you should call them deuterocanonical books.
@@TacticusPrime That's the problem. Protestants don't believe in a Deuterocanon. So they lump Sirach in with Enoch, Esdras, etc. Hence, the confusion.
@@ThinkitThrough-kd4fn I'm just saying that you are claiming there are only 7, then you mean the deuterocanon not the apocrypha. Apocrypha is much wider term that encompasses all sorts of books. It even applies to books that didn't quite make it into the New Testament as well like the Infancy Gospel of James, Gospel of Peter, the Epistle of Barnabas, or the Shepherd of Hermas. The latter two are even in the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the earliest and most complete manuscripts of the Bible.
Wait, the Queen of Sheba isn't a historical figure? What was the purpose of her being mentioned in the Bible, was she a symbol or a metaphor? (Or perhaps a woman of high authority but not necessarily a "queen" in the strictest sense?)
He says queen of sheba isnt historical but wants us to believe about jesus 🤔😂
I find many aspects of his argument strange. He says The queen of Sheba "wasn't Ethiopian" but that she was from "Saba'". He also says the Ethiopians were introduced to Christianity through the Aksumites...... But the Sabaeans are ancestors of the Aksumites, and the Aksumites were the ones who translated the bible into Ge'ez, and are the cultural ancestors of most Ethiopian christians.
So even if the Queen of Sheba was born on the Arabian peninsula, she would still be the ancestor of the people who translated the Ethiopian bible we have today. Even if she wasn't a historical figure or a Queen in the strictest sense, this passage would suggest an ancient connection between Hebrews and Ethiopia that would lend legitimacy to their scripture. Definitely more legitimate than the KJV
@@user-kv5hh5xo8i well said
@@taz09216Because there’s no independent evidence she existed and there is for Jesus.
@yohei72 There's evidence that jesus existed?? Where? So let me guess ,the same bible that mentions jesus also lies about Queen Sheba?? Therefore, the bible has many discrepancies, and therefore, we can arrive at the conclusion that it can not be relied on altogether
Gotta admit, it is interesting to see some form of protestant praise another sect.
The catholics are bad but somehow the ethiopians are not. Kinda unusual. Usually the line is, all groups except mine are bad.
I believe that Dan is Mormon.
@RebeccaRaven I don't think they are talking about Dan..
Yea, I mean I wouldn’t assume the girl is a Protestant but I think it’s likely that Catholicism is much more similar to the Tewahedo church than what she believes which is pretty ironic.
what she’s talking about are very common Rastafarian talking points. I would guess she Rastafari, not protestant.
Kindly educate yourself because they are quiet different.🔔@jacobemmanuel
First off the Ethiopian Cannon only has 81 books. Second many of the extra books are only in there cannon.
Große Gott im Himmel, wo findet man diese Menschen?! Vielleicht muss sie ein Roman schreiben?
I just need to follow Dan around with a notebook so he can say things I can write down and learn from.
Please don't
Dan, where do you find these people?
The "pagan" Catholic church?!? You got a definition for that?
Such an odd assertion. Wonder about the motivation for it?
Guessing she is really down on the Catholic Church, possibly having left it, and wants to trash them a bit
Getting attention on the internet?
Enlightenment 🔔
Can you give us your thoughts on the Mormon Bible from a scholars point of view? Hope to hear back from you. Or you can just drop us a clip perhaps?
Dan the man, I love your videos!
Keep up the good work!
@6:00
The Ethiopian 🇪🇹 Bible had books in it that Christianity ✝️⚔️🛡️🪧 was unaware of. Which makes her "complete" & "accurate" statement TRUE!
Always trying to dismiss the truth
This is boring exhaustive and derivative. Way to reduce an entire culture…
As a fan of scholarship with a serious interests in historical facts, I enjoy moments of creative narratives. Afterall, I grew up submerged in a culture that insisted upon the inerrancy of the KJV 1611. The entertaining content creator is a delightful interlude of fantasy, telling a wonderful story rhapsodizing about the wonderful Queen of Sheeba. Enjoy the moment, for Monday morning will be here far too soon and the hard facts of archeology will bear down upon your moment of hope. For I wish the Queen were a fact rather than a fantasy.
They ripped out what they didn’t like from the Ethiopian Bible.
Rastafari mon. I encountered this line of reasoning in bible school about 20 years ago, and my teacher dismantled it almost as effectively as you did here.
So is she Rastafarian? If not maybe she should be
@1:56
The Book of Acts says Ethiopians were reading Isaiah.... Syrians probably introduced Christianity....not the Bible itself.
Jeez, Dan, what kind of a religion would it be if one couldn't just say that all the stories one likes are historically accurate and the rest are corrupted?
The lady has gone overboard with rumors and legends.
She has not checked anything from a scholarly perspective.
She has a few true points, most of which you acknowledged.
Since you doubt the historicity of the Queen of Sheba; a figure mentioned by Christ as the
"Queen of the South:, then you also bring into question the historicity of King David and King Solomon.
If you agree with that then you are consistent and that is important.
Apropos of nothing, if the Solominic Dynasty reined in Ethiopia until 1974, then the woman in the video needs to accept the fact that Ethiopia didn't ban slavery until August of 1942. So if we're looking to this text as being "uncorrupted," we have to accept that the associated (immoral) ideologies that permeated Ethiopia sprang by inference from the text.
Correction : 1. Slavery was banned in Ethiopia way before 1942 by the decree of Emperor Menelik II even though the practice lingered on to a later time.
2. What corrupted ideologies can you point out to the rest of us please?