Herod the Great
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 พ.ค. 2021
- Dr. Brant Pitre discusses the figure of Herod the Great, and whether he was the kind of man who would do what the Gospels record him as having done. This was taken from Dr. Pitre's The Hidden King: The Jewish Roots of St. Joseph
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You are a blessing to the Church.
One of the very best teachers on 1st. Century Judaism their customs and beliefs ....the man's amazing 👏 ....thanks Dr. Pitre
Thank you for your bright light, Dr. Pitre. 🙏😊
I learned now today. Thank you Dr Pitre
Great history, thank you.
Wow thank you
Great job Brant!
Even if the massacre in Betlehem didn't historically happen, we know that our Lord came into a cruel world, and Matthew portayed Him similar to Moses who was also born in a cruel world of Pharaoh.
It's an empowering message for us who also are living in this era.
so the stories are just inventions? good....thats very honest of u to admit truth
@@thematrix7584 we don't have any proof that it didn't happen anyway.
But Matthew portrayed really well how bitter life was under the tyranny of Herod and how Herod wanted to be proclaimed as Messiah so badly.
That's the world where our Lord was born.
I hate when people do this. Why would it just be made up and not real?! Who are you to just dismiss this as not true?
Great teaching! I lam learning more about my faith here than what I was taught in CC'D ( color in worksheets)
Blessings! Happy Pentecost! Question: are your and Dr. John Bergsma working on a Catholic Introduction to the Bible for the New Testament also. I love this one for the Old and would love one for the New!
Herod the Great: Mad king, ambitious politician and a great builder
what an historical account from josephus.he should have been the one called great.biblical facts indeed.thanks for sharing our catholic account dr.pitre.👍
What a great history background
A very good lecture.
My only knowledge of Herod comes from Michael Grant's great biography.
Professor Grant's book *The Roman Emperors - A Biographical Guide to the Rulers of Imperial Rome 31 BC to AD 476* is worth reading too.
Where is the full vid of this lecture?
Even if Josephus had heard about the massacre of the infants in and around Bethlehem, it will not support the story of Herod he's writing because Josephus is concerned about telling Herod's ways of eliminating his own successors and family members, and how Archelaus, Antipas, and others managed to succeed Herod's kingdom.
Ok, then do we have an idea on why Josephus didn't write about the Bethlehem's massacre?
Josephus gives us a great picture of who Herod the great was, and it seems to me that with what we do know, that Herod did many things above what has been recorded!
Josephus writes about many things (not a begin all, end all on Herod)...but I don't think anyone assumes that if he didn't include something, that it means it didn't happen!
So Josephus is alive when the temple was destroyed in 70AD. The slaughter of the innocents occurred somewhere between 5BC and 2AD (whichever side you fall on the birth-date of Jesus). Most cities in ancient times were actually small towns. At any given time the number of children under the age of two (males only) may have been as low as 10 or perhaps max at 60. Considering the many slaughters of Herod or other such events; it is no wonder this would not have made as much news to the secular world as it did to Christians writing of the significance of Jesus in relation to this particular event. Josephus may not have even remembered this event of 70 years ago. If I asked you to think of child slaughters in the past would you have remembered Waco, Texas or the Rhawadian genocide!!
The massacre of babies didn't happen.
The Bible has errors and contradictions, deal with it
Trying to find a modern equivalent.... I’m thinking, North Korea?
Unfortunately, the world is littered with them. Syria. N. Korea. Belarus. The list goes on.
Bloody divine right theory...😢
Bethlehem was a very small village so if Herod had all the young boys killed, it would've been no more than 5 or 6 young boys. Not dozens
Oh shut up, were you there? Stop trying to be edgy by disputing history. You and a bunch of other people in the comments.