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- A socioeconomic and political overview of the circumstances under which Christianity first arose in the Tetrarchy of the Galilee. Filmed in Nazareth, Mishmar HaEmek, and Tiberias in late March and early April of 2022.
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An interesting note courtesy of Noam: the horsemen of Geva weren't Jewish! While there _were_ elite Jewish cavalry in ancient Judea, these were foreigners (mostly from Phrygia in Anatolia) employed by Herod and his descendants to be loyal to the Royal Family rather than the Great Sanhedrin. This very nicely explains a very strange event described by Josephus at the end of the Royalist Temple Siege in 66: when the Great Sanhedrin declared war on Rome, the official cavalry commander Philip remained on the side of King Agrippa II and the Romans, while the Master of Horse Darius joined the rebels. It may be assumed that Philip was a pagan while Darius was Jewish.
I have a question, Sam. At 10:48
, you said "Some people don't believe that there was a Jesus ... this is a Christianity centric world-view " -- I am a little confused. Could you clarify? Thank you !
I study jewish history at university and I really would love to talk to you about the journey that let you to making these videos. They are so interesting while also being in line with what may become a serious thesis, let me know if you have any contact info
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Are you kidding me?! You were next to my home and I didn't know about it?
@@SamAronow your dms are off I think on Twitter, I just commented on your latest tweet
Another excellent video! “Musht” is aka “Jordan St Peter’s Fish” or simply “Blue Tilapia”.
As a Christian, I apologize for Christians who harass you on social media. I myself was raised with some strange views of Judaism (and your channel has helped me understand that a lot more clearly). It sounds like some people raised in a similar milieu as me feel free to be disrespectful.
Don't mind me asking but I wonder what opinions do Christians have of Jews? Especially since they are the only ones who reject Jesus but do not worship "fallen angels".
@@dankseid3793 Ils peuvent affirmer le contraire, mais la vérité, c’est que la plupart des Chrétiens n’aiment pas les Juifs, tout comme la majorité des Juifs n’aiment pas les Chrétiens.
@@mistergrosbig4085 I am not French nor do I understand the language.
@@dankseid3793 They might say otherwise, but the truth is that most Christians dislike Jews, just like how most Jews dislike Christians. These two religions are inherently in opposition with each other.
@@dankseid3793 it's very different, depending on the denomination of Christianity and many other factors.
Some Christians are antisemitic, but most modern day Christians have somewhat positive views on Judaism.
Many conservative Christians say that "Western civilization" was build on "Judeo-Christian" values.
A lot of Christians see Judaism as the religion, that Christianity grew out of.
And some more obscure forms of also belive that in order for Jesus to come back and bring about the Apocalypse, the Jews need to retake the holy land.
Because of that, these Christians are very strong supporters of Israel .
This has to be the first travelogue video you’ve done with no cats.
According to Wiki, the Arabic word “musht” (مشط) refers to tilapia. The lake’s other major species are sardines, carp, and catfish.
I entered the Hebrew "מושט" into google translate and that also output tilapia, but gave a second translation as "bass". However, when I translated English "tilapia" to Hebrew, it gave the translation "אמנון" (amnun).
I can hear cats
@@burnin8orable Both מושט and אמנון refer to the same fish.
Amnoon is the original Hebrew name, while Musht is an Arabic word that was borrowed into Hebrew as slang.
The idea that Jesus was eating catfish would be greatly pleasing to people from Louisiana
Glad to see your commitment to the history or the region and Jesus to the point of even looking the part! Kidding aside, love your content, love the flow, and happy to see this part of your channel return
Great to see your face Sam. Thank you for the entertainment and engaging education 🙏🏼
I find the Jewish context for early Christianity fascinating. I actually laughed when you said that some people think Christianity is the "original form" of Judaism.
That's unfortunately going to come up again in a few weeks, in a video that will probably be demonetized and will probably have to have the comments closed.
@@SamAronow messianic judiaism?
Oh, not even close. But I don't like to discuss future videos if they haven't been uploaded yet.
I was shocked too. I've never heard of that. It's crazy to even think that
@@SamAronow I'm guessing the video is yet to be uploaded? No pressure or anything, I just couldn't recall it coming up in any recent videos, and am interested in learning more of the subject
Great to see you, Sam. Thank you for this and all of your videos. Be well and take good care. Shalom
How fitting to make this video in a rare year when western Easter actually falls on the Sunday immediately after the Passover feast. I very much enjoy your telling of the Christian story through a Jewish historical lens. I minored in Christology and you have filled in so many gaps that my professors never even thought to question.
You are the most underrated Jewish Historian I have ever come across in my entire life.
Hallo from Denmark. I must say very interesting channel . You sparked the interest of this non jewish danish history geek . I am impressed about the hard you put into it. Your video about the gods ancient in Israel and juda was amazing. I newer a patheon of many was reduced to one. Also your video about early Christianity was something I loved ..Great work my friend . I look foreword to next one..
As a “Christian” who learned about the biblical feasts in the tanakh, and reading jewish/Hebraic history, it’s caused me to practice my faith within the historic context of its origins. Love your channel.
You make me a better brother, Mr Aronow. I don't want to belabor the point, I've talked about it under other videos of yours or that you worked on but my brother converted recently and you...give me the context and the knowledge and the...the understanding that I need to be the kind of brother that he needs me to be. I'll keep thanking you for it until it feels like I've paid you back.
You look like a fusion of Johnny Depp and Jesus xD
Thank you for the video Sam!
Love the change of pace with the live look... Your information is always enlightening! 😎
Sam, thank you so much for your honesty, your research and your truth. Congrats on the feeling of shortened hair! Well done! Jesus as a Pharisee makes complete sense. Thanks to your videos I learned more about Hillel and have learned so much.
Jesus was a heretic not a disciple of Hillel it is just impudence and contempt to Judaism to say such a foolish thing when the law is according to Hillel. He is ignoran
We have the censored part of the Talmud either he doesn’t know about this or he’s lying but we know exactly who and what Jesus did
hey sam as always an amazing video, i wanted to ask you why did you change your avatar's slyle despite your appearance no changing
I cut my hair immediately after filming this. And it was time for an update anyway. Underneath all the shag it was very grey.
תודה אחי וחג שמח
@@SamAronow it reminds me of Joseph from the Technicolour Dreamcoat VHS
In 1st century the expectative of Messiah iminent comming was very strong. As a result Jesus was not the only one, there were a lot of Messiah claimant. A great number of those claimants were from Galilea.
Who are some of these other claimants? I can’t find much info on them.
@@LordJagd the historian Flavius Josephus is the main source about those claimants, he mentions several of them who existed before the 2nd temple destruction.
Some of the claimants mentioned by Josephus are mentioned also in act of apostles 5:36-37
Some claimants mentioned by Josephus are:
-Judas of Galilee
-Theudas
-Simon Bar Giora
-Simon of Perea
-the Egyptian prophet
Not sure what to comment: thoroughly enjoyed this. The flow of info just coming out actually worked...conversationally even though you were the only one talking haha. With lots of bits of info to possibly explore in the future..almost teasers that didn't take long...so back to the main topic. Specifically, I had not thought of the Galilee as being a poor area at the time. Always good to have reminders not to see things from that (another) time as they are today. Good job, Sam.
I so appreciate your videos. Thank you so very much. Peace and blessings always.
Sam, you can't be looking like Jesus in Nazareth 😂
You beat me to it.
I was gonna say the same
This probably why he didn’t cut his hair 😂😂😂
Your content is always so good! Thanks!
It's great to see your actual, non-cartoon face, for a change
It's nice to see the Human behind the stories & information I've been listening to for such a while
Keep it all up. Cartoon or not. Just keep it all coming 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😎😁😃👍🏼
Very interesting video. I would love to see more of these where you get to show us the areas while you explain the history.
I have a playlist of ones I've already done. Obviously this is the first in a long while. It's hard to make time for these, as well as to coordinate with people to talk to or even to help me film.
@@SamAronow I totally understand that. Only way i could help is with funding.
@@grapesurgeon Money is not the issue, the issue is time, and we can't make more of that.
Thanks for another enlightened historical journey.
I enjoy your videos and it seems you're very knowledgeable. I wish you would mention or include your sources, even if it's just a link or a footnote below the video. Thank you.
Ahh…there’s your face! Great job on all of your videos. Thank you for posting 🌼
Omfg, Sam, your hair is so gorgeous!
Also the vid's been great
Happy Passover and Resurrection Sunday!
You picked the right hair for the job
חג פסח שמח!
And thanks a lot for your amazing videos!
The north was my favourite when I went on birthright. This makes me want to go back so much!
Awesome video Sam, as always!
Wooow this is the first time I've seen you, this is great! Do some more of these videos as well as the usual type with the cartoons, really nice mix!
Always appreciate your takes, very respectful and lucid. Been enjoying your extensive library of content as of late.
wow, i thought you were a picture, but you are a real person! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and thoughts
Thanks for posting the video.🤗
I didn't realize you also made cat videos.
your videos are awesome.
Danke!
Bitte.
Thank you for your time and expertise that benefits us all.
A Catholic theology teacher taught me that the words used to describe Joseph in the Bible don't mean carpenter as in an skilled wood worker, but "a man who collects sticks to sell as firewood". He was trying to make the point that Jesus was born into relative poverty.
Your teacher was mistaken, the Greek word used means “builder” which could include wooden things but mostly means masonry
Oh wow, I met Lydia Aisenberg on my birthright trip!
Great content as always. While I loved judaics class in middle and high school, learning about Jewish history in this way is much more delightful.
When I was in fifth grade in 1963 an ignorant teacher said Hebrew was a dead language. That was before the Six Day War ha ha.
Thanks for the vid. appreciate the work you do.
חג שמח, amazing video!
I've wondered this when watching your other videos too: why do you call it "the" Galilee? Your channel is the first place I've heard it referred to with the definite article
That's the only way I've ever heard it. And that's how it is in Hebrew- HaGalil. It's an archaic word for "region" and comes from the Book of Isaiah- "Glil HaGoyim," named for the Assyrian settlers who came there after their conquest of Israel.
Man, in your animated videos you look so much older, darker, and unhealthier.
And you move. ;-)
Thanks for the information
What is the earliest known reference to the Dead Sea being, well, dead? Not related to the video just something I have wondered for awhile.
Pausanias, 2nd century.
Good video, I'll have to rewatch it a few times to absorb everything. You look good with long hair, by the way, though I can certainly understand cutting it short again if that's your preference, mine starts to feel unwieldy whenever it gets to more than a few inches long.
Sunday school is going over Daniel. Think it’s time for you to explain in detail why “Jeremiah is the worst.”
In the modern age of the nation-state, a plain reading of Jeremiah comes off as the worst kind of self-criticism: smug, lacking in empathy, and crossing the line into high treason. This is what stuck out to me most; he was not merely a critic but an active Babylonian collaborator and accelerationist. If he was alive today he'd be a frequent guest on RT.
@@SamAronow That… actually makes a lot of sense from a secular nationalist point of view, especially in the context of modern interplay between orthodoxy and the Israeli government (what little I understand of it). Thanks for the reply. 👍
would you like to do a joint episode with the history of persia podcast about the persian jewish history when he get to the macabees when he fets there,
Thank you, Sam. Truly needed this b4 Easter. Next level grounded scholarship context of Jesus'+Apostles' zeitgeist from as legit a source (u) as 1 gets: a real deal Jewish historian tellin it like it was, the real Life&Times Of Jewish Galilee read here. Pinache all the while, by the Galilee w/historical Jesus' hair&beard, totally owning the transfiguration-bright-whites threads: Bravo, Sam! Bravo!
I know this will chronologically ruin your series but can you do Zahir Al Umar Al Zaydani’s Galilee when you go back?
0:30
It is still called Nazareth Illit.
Change my mind.
I missed Jewish history on the road
“ we don’t have his birth certificate”
As an American, I get what that is referencing, that said were birth certificates an actual thing back then or was it more presenting the child to the temple/authorities and saying “this one’s ours”?
It's shorthand for a bad-faith argument against the historical Jesus' existence based on a lack of contemporary documents. It's an argument which applies modern standards of data and willfully ignores of the cultural and political context of the time. Stripping away the later metaphysics and lore, Jesus fits in perfectly with what was going on at that place and time, and was hardly the only messianic claimant of that century. Ironically, this is something that many Christians willfully ignore for the same reasons.
See also: Shakespeare truthers.
@@SamAronow Have you read any of Richard Carrier's work on the subject? I used to have zero doubt in the historicity of Jesus, but Carrier completely flipped my view.
@@LordJagd Carrier makes an overextended argument. To explain what he's doing, he's actually showing the various myths that have been borrowed by the founders of what we call Christianity in the construction of their mythical Jesus (the "Son of God"). This part of the argument is strong because it is a positive deduction. Let's call the pagan myths borrowed by Christianity A, the Christian Jesus myth B, and the biography of the historical Jesus C. The basic mythical Jesus logical construct is: Because A exists and precedes B, then the elements of B that resemble A must have been borrowed from A. No problem with that. Even Catholic scholars agree with this. The problem is that Carrier then claims that the mythical elements of the Jesus of Christianity invalidates the existence of the Jewish man Jesus of Nazareth. The logical construct then becomes: Because A exists and precedes B, then the elements of B taken from C can be ignored and C is then invalidated. This is the part most scholars disagree with because as you can see from the construct, it's actually illogical. A being true does not refute C unless A and C are mutually exclusive. The problem is that A and C don't have to be. In fact, every historical person we know of within living memory has both a mythical and a historical version. Think JFK and "Camelot", or just look at our contemporary glorious leader and true president whose election was stolen by the Deep State. It perfectly makes sense that Jesus would be exactly the same.
Also, Carrier bases too many of his ideas on the "research" of Dr. Robert Price, a well-known anti-semite and generally nasty person. Price is the kind of "scholar" that Sam means when he says they "willfully ignore the cultural and political context of the time". Price is basically saying that there's no way Jesus was a historical Jew because Christianity must have been invented by Greco-Romans. In other words, no way Jews are smart enough to have come up with Christianity.
@@andrewsuryali8540 The parallels with pagan gods is only part of his argument. The most convincing parts are the lack of historicity in Paul's letters (who calls Christianity a "mysterion", the ancient Greek word for a "mystery religion") and how every detail of the Gospels has some kind of theological motivation behind it or intertextual meaning with Jewish scriptures. You can construct a euhemerized Jesus of Nazareth out of the Gospels (as most historians do), but that'd be about as historically accurate as if you did the same with King Arthur or Heracles.
I agree with your issues with Price, but I think he articulated the situation well when he said something like "whether there was a historical Jesus is unknowable and if he did exist, close to nothing can be known about him"
Oo I like this Thursday upload
Sam u memtion in one of your videos- that some point in the first temple the majority of jews lived in the diaspora. I do not remember which vedio. What year aprx ?
Circa 200 BCE. Second Temple Period, not First.
@@SamAronow tysm חג שמח
happy Passover
Beautiful video
Great video. As a non jew one question I had was why did Jesus or his desiples decided that convertion was a good thing? It seems very different from little I know of what jewish practices are.
Peter and Paul concluded that Christianity could only survive if it became more than just a branch of Judaism. Therefore, Christians of Jewish birth were still obliged to follow Jewish law, but converts were not.
@@SamAronow Thank you. So because of the mentioned conclusion they decided that convertion was an appropriate practice for Christianity.
@@SamAronow Kind of like rabbinical Judaism and Noahides
When did Jared Leto start doing Jewish History videos?
Hey we're planning a trip to Israel this fall. What's something other than Jerusalem we should make time for to check out?
Caesarea is good. I'd also throw in Jaffa, Haifa, and there are lots of great spots in the Galilee. I'm partial to the upper Jordan Valley. Safed is worth visiting exactly once and never again, because it can be absolutely swamped with Haredi pilgrims for festivities you didn't even know existed. Beersheba is also underrated- it's got the ANZAC museum and the cozy little bars and Bedouin market.
@@SamAronow good to know, thanks for the reply
Sam, love the content! When are you going to read the Christian gospels? No jokes, they really are Jewish writings. Even Luke, who supposedly was gentile, throws so much of oral tradition in there.
I've seen many of your videos.. You're a VERY good historian..I understand your a bit perhaps of your culture and where you are coming from... You have a really good influence on people interested in the subjects of Jewish history. What stopped me to stop the video and type... Is why you lost your twin of thought consistently. I think you know. Keep up the good work. Maybe organize your videos as they don't go out on TH-cam like you studied them and just KNOW. I personally could never get one video in sequence to hear the next when I was interested...
Maybe a follow up video on this?
I'll just come out and say it. The long hair REALLY suits you.
josheph jesuss father was a carpenter but i do not think the bible ever says that jesus himself was its just popular logic that assumes that jesus too was a carpenter.
Chag Pessach Sameach!!
Sam the "Nazerene". Out of interest which towns in the Galiliee had a Jewish majority before the crusades and is there an overlap with locations inhabited by Jews today or not?
We have no idea. There was no Benjamin of Tudela to tell us.
Thank you.
R.I.P. Jesus, you are missed, a strong Jewish leader who unfortunately met his end due to a Roman leadership who were fear mongering and afraid of a new Jewish revolt despite Jesus being a peaceful Jewish leader.
At least one of his twelve core followers was literally named "Simon the Zealot" with possibly two more (Judas Iscariot - the moniker meaning "the Sicarii", and Simon Peter himself) being of similar ilk. It's questionable whether he was fully peaceful.
I think the cat dosent like Jesus
You look like Captain Jack Sparrow in this video.
Any interesting history to be found in Afula? I also love the north.
Chag Pesach Sameach! 👍
Heya Sam. I was wondering if you were familiar with the Christ Myth Theory, AKA Jesus Mythicism. I personally find it a lot more compelling and explains the evidence a lot better than the Historical Jesus theory. I'm asking you specifically because you made an entire video about the life of Jesus which was sourced ultimately from the Gospels, which aren't historically reliable.
This is a total fringe theory.
Gospels were written about a generation after Jesus supposedly died; that's nowhere near enough time for history to descend into pure mythology.
(Although I agree that I'm suspicious of how much of the bible he takes for granted as true)
Happy Easter!
Running out of time? Does your hair stop growing at some point?
May I ask which video you made where the difference between hillelism and shammaism? Perhaps I should rewatch the videos again.
The House of Hillel was the more liberal pharisaic faction that favored moral responsibility over strict adherence to Jewish law, whereas Shammai was much more legalistic. The Hillelists were always the dominant faction of the two, and it's mostly their judgments that won and were immortalized in the _Mishnah._
Incidentally, the Zealots were the militant offshoot of the Shammaists who produced the first century's first messianic claimant, Judas of Gamla. This is why the blanket use of "Pharisees" in the Gospels is anachronistic- they had already split into three distinct parties decades earlier.
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Tilapia is Moosht
I actually, have considered whether or not if Jesus may have been the founder of the Nazarene Sect actually, which I believe, was the forerunner of what eventually, evolved into Christianity. I don't know what you may know about that. Or whether or not he may have been involved with the Essene Sect as well. Also, do you think there is any possibility he could have been exposed to Buddhist thought, as well. How well traveled were the Jews of this time, anyway? Just wondering if you could share your thoughts there, when you find the time.
Hope you are well right now, and in a safe place. My Best. Out.
You are struggling with your faith, brother.
@@elhombredeoro955 : No, I have moved past religious dogma long ago. Plus I've done the research in how this religion came into existence, which most choose not to.
Hello Mr Aronow, here are some potential sites that would make for an interesting episode on the "parting of the ways" between what became Mishnaic Judaism (centered around Tiberias) and early forms of Christianity (Jewish/Gnostic/Catholic): for Jewish Christians a Roman-Byzantine village named Farj in the southern Golan, Claudine Dauphin who excavated believed some of the artwork on door posts were of a Jewish-Christian background (whether ebionite or nazorean). Also a synagouge in the south near Hebron called Susiya, which has an interesting inscription referencing either a potential donor to the synagouge or Jesus, pending your POV. For gnostic christians, it would be interesting to find a site that reflects diaspora jews from iraq/irans connection to Israel, and talk about Elchasai and his influence on Manicheanism and Mandaeism. For Catholic Christians the Meggido church of the 3rd century and Tabgha church with the story of its Jewish convert Joseph of Tiberias. Food for thought, happy pesach.
Musht is tilapia
פסח כשר ושמח סם
?Didn't King Agrippa made some improvements to the galilee in the years he was king
Agrippa was after Jesus.
@@SamAronow you talked about the Bar Kochba revolt so i assumed you are going to talk about the entire changes in the Galilee in the Tana'aic period
Nyice
Please go to magdala!🙏
Hey Sam, if you're out and about in Israel, you're most welcome to drop by for coffee in Jerusalem! :)
I am very glad you made this video. Also you are very handsome.
Whales are my friend
I suppose one sees any historical figure in context of what ones knows about that figure's time and place. I know a bit about Hellenistic religion and philosophy, so I find some traces of those things in what we know about Jesus and his immediate followers--not to deny the obvious influence of first cent Judaism
You’re not alone - Burton Mack and John Dominic Crossan both suggest that Jesus was similar to the wandering Cynic sages
@@LordJagd I got the idea partly from reading Crossan.
You look tired my friend. I hope you find some rest.
the sad thing is with Jesus he been that distorted we know nothing of the real man other than how people perceived him
Lies we know more about him than any figure from that entire century
I thought that you was Jesus in the video
Maybe Jesus was Hilelist but about mariage and divórce his opinion converge with Shamai.
Any longer and you'd have been forced to start a Metal band. By law!
Jesus was not a Christian but a practicing new who wanted to enhance and update Judaism not destroy it,it was after Jesus death that Christianity diverted from Jesus Jewish roots
He is the Christ, for Christ's sake!!!
OMG it's Jeebus..
St peters fish. I ask the same thing every time.