I am from the Shetland Isles in the far north of Scotland , and I have been studying this period of history watching relevant youtube videos. I must say that I have found your videos the most interesting and the arguments you offer to be among the most concise, persuasive and logical that I have seen. I know that you are dealing with this period of our history from a specific point of view but I feel that this really enhances my understanding to have a firm thread running through this often chaotic times narrative;in your enthusiastic and often droll style. Thank you for your work in getting these lectures together and making them more public. I think it has definately been worth the effort, and I have really enjoyed them over these lockdown times. Thanks again and All the best David Smith
Thanks! I greatly appreciate the recognition because it's an incredible amount of work, yet a labor of love. It's absolutely amazing to me that I've gone from local viewership in Atlanta (USA) to people all over the world, including Scotland!
You're crushing it with these videos. Great perspective on a lot of history and its relevance to the Jewish faith, life and culture as we progress through the centuries.
@@WorldHistorybyaJewTheChannel sir, let me add to the compliments: videos from your channel as well as others have inspired me to read the Bible! Currently I'm at the part where it talks about Saul. Interesting stuff!
Jericho is a unique anchor point in time because it wasn't rebuilt for hundreds of years after the walls came down around 1500BCE. So many other sites including Hazor have a history of repeated destruction and rebirth (seen in their stratum). Hazor has unique stratum for the 15, 14, 13 and 11 centuries, so it could literally match any proposed Exodus timeline.
Thank you I think your channel is very interesting and deserves more recognition. The Q&A format works well, your explanations would get lost in the comments section. I suggest that you look at the period from the return from exile and rebuilding of Jerusalem through to the destruction by the Roman's in 70. The friction between the Sadducees and Pharisees, Zealots and Essenes is complex and not covered elsewhere. Thanks
Thanks for your kind words! If you want to help, please tell others. As for content, I appreciate your suggestion. I'm planning to do a poll on this channel, and I'll include this on the ballot.
Hi Seth, The Q&A session was great👍👌 so keep that up. I’m pretty much strictly an Antiquities person- from the Mesolithic Era up through the Collapse of Rome. BUT, I’ll have to say I like the whole Byzantine Era and the Ottoman Empire and Islamic history up through the Middle Ages, so I’ll just have to see where you go on future lectures. But, I have to say that the Old and New Testaments are The Love Of My Life. You’re doing Super-Fine now and I’m sure you’re just gonna get better and better 😉. Thank you so much, Seth. 👍✌️😄🇺🇸🇮🇱
Thank you! I'm planning to do a poll on the channel to help me decide. I'm not going to go against the whim of my core audience, but I would like to branch out some.
Seth, thanks for the content! It's too bad I missed this Q and A time slot. but I have a question. Is the Minoan collapse and/or the Thira eruption reflected in Egyptian sources?
Thanks for watching. There is nothing 100% definitive in Egyptian records talking about a gigantic volcanic eruption destroying the Minoans. That does NOT exist. However, within the last decade there was been a theory many seem to support regarding the time of Ahmose at the beginning of the New Kingdom. His Tempest Stela talks about extremely unusually meteorological occurrences, and the timing would be about right. For example, see here: news.uchicago.edu/story/worlds-oldest-weather-report-could-revise-bronze-age-chronology
Well..... as new research has shown there were actually two destruction layers at Jericho. One at 1550 bc and the other at 1250 bc. Dr. David A. Falk has done a video on his channel about the destruction of Jericho.
It's a tiny point, but , quoting a Welsh source "It may help you to pronounce names if you remember that the emphasis in Welsh is usually on the penultimate syllable. For example, Caernarfon (kyre-nar-von), Beddgelert (beth-gel-airt), Llanberis (thlan-ber-ris), Felindre (veh-lin-dray)." Putting the emphasis on the first syllable, when pronouncing Carnarvon, sounds really weird. The stress has to be on the second syllable.
Possible Topics: 1) Jewish History in Late Antiquity/Early Middle Ages in Mediterranean World/Europe; 2) How Jews were affected by the Crusades; and 3) I’m embarrassed to admit this one, but how/when did the Jews get forced out of Israel, I assume it was during/by the astonishingly fast Arab/Muslim conquest? I’m so very fuzzy on this, it just never seems to be explicitly addressed in “popular” mainstream history. Thanks for considering my input, I have to admit I find modern history boring, it’s too close to our time to be very interesting.
Thanks for your suggestions. I'll set up a poll on this channel, so everyone can have input before I decide on the next topic. I'd like to get some sort of consensus if possible. My interests run over about 3100 BCE to 1918 CE. I think I can make any history in that 5000-year period fun ... that's my goal.
Hi Seth, I'd like to see more info on the Canaanite DNA subject, and I'd love to know more about how the Jews got to Western Europe, ie Rome (am aware that Rome had a huge Jewish community during Roman times). From your lectures and those of others, I slowly began to realize how much people travelled in earlier times. I'm trying to figure out how a DNA relative may have gone from the South Levant, to Rome, and to Normandy / Flanders. I have an idea (unsure if its true) how the relatives moved to Italy. Thanks.
Do you have any idea of the timing? There was a flow of merchants from Italy to Flanders in the Middle Ages. During this time (roughly 1100-1500 CE), wool was a major economic force in Europe with Flanders being the keystone. However, the financial powerhouse firms and banks were based in Italy. This created several centuries of high-volume trade of people, goods, and wealth between Flanders and Italy.
@@WorldHistorybyaJewTheChannel This much I know: from Church records, I can trace by 9th great grandfather born about 1580 (have death certificate, baptismal cert illegbile), we know the family had a tomb in the church (closed by Napoleon in about 1815) which originated about 1100. The family was on the road between the Brenner Pass and Luca. One distant family member thinks we were there since about 1000. My guess, the family came down to Italy with Charlemagne in about 800. There are Tonis (family was Tosney, or de tuoni, de toni) who went to England with William the Conquerer (Standard barer) from Tosney Normandy France, but that was later. Much appreciated, and I'll mention this to my distant relative and see what he says, I'll post his comments.
Hi there, do you think the ''Pelasgo-Tyrsenians'' could have been likely to exist?? (as a culture in both peninsulads and isles) with the Lemnians included?
hello there, what do you know about Thessaly and the Dimini-Rakhmani Culture? would they have been ''Shemitic'' or ''Hamitic (or Japhetic)? what do you think happened to them??
Can you explain this Judges 11:26 While Israel dwelled in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years? why therefore did you not recover them within that time? And 1 Kings 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
17:07 this is ridiculous if the accident wasn't at 1200 and you say the walls fell in the 1500 your trying to say Joshua is false which is err on your part Maybe you should consider the false dating system used for dating rocks
