The Amalekites: Fact or Fiction?

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The Amalekites seem to be the arch-enemies of Israel - so much so they are allotted for extermination, they are under the ban, or herem. But there are no references to this people group in extrabiblical sources? Did they actual exist in history? Can archaeology show us anything about them? Or are they a fiction invented by biblical authors? Let's explore that...
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If you'd like to read more here are just a few of the sources we used in this video:
Philip Webb, "Amalek," in the Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Nashville, Holman Reference: 2015.
Edward Lipinski, On the Skirts of Canaan in the Iron Age: Historical and Topographical Researches. Leuven: Peeters Publishing, 2006.
Gerald L. Mattingly, "Amalek," The Anchor Bible Dictionary, New Haven: Yale University Press.
Volkmar Fritz, "Tel Masos," Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East.
Avraham Faust, “The Negev ‘Fortresses’ in Context: Reexamining the “Fortress” Phenomenon in Light of General Settlement Process of the Eleventh-Tenth Centuries B.C.E.,” Journal of the American Oriental Society, 126.2 (2006): 135-160.
A. Kirk Grayson, ed. Assyrian Rulers of the Early First Millennium BC I (1114-859 BC). Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia, Assyrian Periods Volume 2. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 2002.
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@yeewengchiang3295 Год назад

This is kind of ironic. God said he would blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven, and here we are today trying hard to find any modern extrabiblical evidence to prove that they exist. 😅

@user-vm9mu5ul1h 8 месяцев назад

It is even worse: the Jews have made remembering Amalek one of their 613 immutable rules. Insane

@zaneblack1132 3 месяца назад

The fact you think God said this and not a corrupt scribe under instruction of a lying Pharisee 😂 blind obedience to documents with no context isn't Faith.

@user-li6zk2kh1j 2 месяца назад

God said they existed they existed. God blot them out he blot them out. You believe what Gods word said or you dont. Which this makes the video pointless.

@user-li6zk2kh1j 2 месяца назад

The Amalkites were in Canaan the land God gave to the Israelites. No guessing games needed.

@user-li6zk2kh1j 2 месяца назад

@@user-vm9mu5ul1h not all jews are like that. I could easily say all vm9mu5ulih' s are like this or that.

@js1423 Год назад

Another great video, BtB! I also noticed that your video on the Philistines and Moabites have been doing quite well! Congratulations on that 🎊🎉🍾🎈!

@BeneaththeBible Год назад

Thanks! We’ve liked getting to show that the different people groups of the OT were constituted differently rather than all being the same kind of group.

@js1423 Год назад

@@BeneaththeBible Yeah! I meant that they have gotten quite a lot of views! Good to see good scholarship & content get more recognition!

@simmyjester Год назад

This was really informative. Also, I couldn't tell if this was a religious or a secular video, it was just what y'all knew when you made it, and that evenness was great to see. :)

@DN-kf4gg Год назад

Same. Just found this channel today and I am really liking it for the same reasons.

@abedejong6799 Год назад

The presence and region where the amalekites lived Explane the geological place of Mount Sinai, horeb in peninsula Sinai and not in S. Arabia

@jaylenfrank Год назад

Grand risings, good afternoon, Happy Sabbath and GOD bless. After attending church and helping the homeless, this lesson landed lyrically as a wonderful addition to today's studies. We must thank GOD for the intellectual capacity to which he grants us to organize our interests so collectively and vigilantly. Thank you for your production skills. 🙏🏼

@shardanette1 9 месяцев назад

I just found your channel and I've enjoyed your no nonsense approach to these subjects. But I was really hoping you'd watched the video on Amalek by World History by a Jew. He's got my favorite theory on them so far.

@blackdog75 Год назад

my children are eat ‘em-ites because they eat everything in sight

@BeneaththeBible Год назад

Yeah, we’ve got kids like that too. Must be from the same tribe

@larsbitsch-larsen6988 Год назад

Very interesting series. The evidence of hill fortresses or enclosures is especially interesting. These hill fortresses are also found in the Greek islands from the same time period. The time period of the sea people. This period is very interesting because of what happened. Civilizations were lost the Minoan script was forgotten. What kind of changes in the way of life can result in such serious changes? War? Maybe but there is no record of such a war. I vote for climate changes that drove people around the Mediterranean in search for a place to survive. On the sea, we have the sea peoples. But if there was a Katastrophy of that size, why don't we see a similar effect inland? Well on the sea we have refuges barely managing til survive. We would also on land have people fighting for survival. In my view, the Amalekites are just such a people. More or less refuges trying to survive. I also think that this time period was the origin of Israel. Groups of people with different origins, some from Iraq (the Abraham story) and some from Egypt, the Moses story. I also think the the Moses story originates from a group of Egyptian priests that left for Israel and later became the Levites. Priests were educated and education means knowledge and knowledge means records. First by memory and later in writing. Yes, I known Levites claim heritage and that is probably true in some sense. But in which sense? I find it especially interesting that Israel surfaces in a time that most surrounding kingdoms have disappeared, and it took centuries, before some of the other empires regained their strength. It seems as if the climate Katastrophy hit, the south part of Italy, all of Greece and the Turkish plateau, the most, but it also hit down through Iraq.

@oliveragag8576 Год назад

A really underrated channel.

@juanmaguire6482 Год назад

If you read the old testament towards the end there is a civility issue in the area or region and many small new tribes emerge some with very distasteful customs the unrest at the time caused and increase in nomadic tribal style communities which was aided by the destruction of canaan and how its people settled after the invasion of joshua.

@expandingknowledge8269 Год назад

You forgot the Termites.

@BeneaththeBible Год назад

Guess we’ll have to do another video!

@bobleclair5665 8 месяцев назад

The moved to southern Florida

@501Mobius Год назад

The problem you are having with the Amalekites is that you haven't located Kadesh Barnea correctly. It is not Ain Qedis in the Negev, but Wadi Musa (Petra) in the Transjordan plateau east of the Arabah in the desert of Parm (DT 1:1). You had it right when you said they began in Edom in the land of their ancestor Esau. They spread out from there. They were probably bandits raiding caravans of goods traveling from Arabia to the Levant. There is evidence of people living in the Wadi Musa area going back 13,000 years.

@narrowistheway77 Год назад

There’s no such thing as 13,000 years ago. The Bible is extremely clear about how long the entire universe has been around. Other than that, good points. GOD Bless! ❤️

@501Mobius Год назад

@@narrowistheway77 So distances of stars can be calculated by triangulation using trigonometric parallax up to about 30,000 light years distance. That means it took 30,000 years for the light to reach earth. How are stars created before the entire universe? Cheers

@narrowistheway77 Год назад

@@501Mobius NASA are lying as is every other space agency on Earth. If you haven’t figured out that they’re all Satanists working together to deceive the world yet then I pray you eventually will. Btw, the Bible literally says the heavens were created to look old and that all things were made by the breath of GOD’s mouth, and if you’d ever read the scriptures you’d realize Christ gave no room for argument that the world was a made in six days and left a timeline in Genesis for you to know exactly how old the world is. If you had ever done the human growth rate back to six people, you would also realize there is no room for error, we cannot possibly be very old and to get back to six people with growth and mortality taken into account you get exactly back to post~flood on the timeline. My sincere suggestion is that you should put your whole trust in Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to show you everything you need to know through GOD’s own word. It’s all true. I will pray for you! GOD Bless! ❤️

@narrowistheway77 Год назад

@@501Mobius “For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:” -2 Peter 3:5 “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.” -Psalm 33:6 You should read the rest of scripture. If you believe in Christ then you also must believe his prophets and that he himself said all of this was true. By faith in Christ you are saved, if you have faith, GOD will show you the rest and you will be rewarded for your faith

@angelodcollazo Год назад

Very interesting! In regard to hard-to-pin-down nomadic people groups, I'm seeing a lot of similarities between your Amalekite video and your Edomite video which makes sense because, according to Genesis 36 : 12 , Amalek is the grandson of Esau / Edom. I suspect this overlap contributes to the lack of clarity regarding who exactly the Amalekites were. Perhaps they are hard to distinguish because they were lumped in with the Shasu of Edom / Seir?

@Achill101 Год назад

@8:52 "after the reign of David, the Amalekites basically disappear" - that's suspicious, because it's afterwards that the time of historicity basically begins. Yes, we know the kings in Jerusalem saw themselves as the Dynasty of David, but what David or any earlier figure did is behind a veil of legend.

@Seaofglass510 Год назад

Could be the Saudi Royal family

@mahyar2727 7 месяцев назад

Ancient Hindus called their enemies "Mleccha" which is very similar to "Amalek".

@kpk1958 Месяц назад

Any speculations on why God didn't just wipe out the Amalekites with a targeted plague or localized flood? And what's up with Moses having to hold his hands up to allow the Israelites to win in battle as described in Exodus 17? Why? It seems that God succeeded in being at war from generation to generation as conflict in the Middle East has never ceased, albeit without the Amalekites in modern times. For a creator of the universe, God sure seems to be pretty weak and powerless when it comes to things that humans care about. When he does help, it's in a substantially inefficient and impermanent way. I presume that is why all of God's promises are essentially delayed until the afterlife. He must really be powerful in that realm.

@williamanderson3185 11 месяцев назад

They were a tribe, descended from Esau. They allied with the enemies of Israel. they were nomadic and left little passing.

@Thomas-bw1bz 9 месяцев назад

The Amelikites are the lukka people, am means people followed by lqq people of lukka, in Egyptian and Hittite they are always refered to as a people not a kingdom. They were sea people settled south of the Philistines after mernathaph defeated them shortly after bronze age collapse. Originally they came from South western turkey on the Aegean coast , they are related to the tjerrker , denyen ( tribe of Dan) Mycenaean Greeks settled around the coast before being driven North by the Philistines. They are also related to the Sheridan. All this is around 1200 BC..

@juanmaguire6482 Год назад

it means they had land alotted to them before their existence because of who they were indicated in the line afterwards.

@juanmaguire6482 Год назад

could also be referring to esau having territory and its just grammatical

@johnniejefferson3817 8 месяцев назад

study the lukka people read translation to Hebrew language .

@abedejong6799 8 месяцев назад

The bible/God is clear ... The origine of the Amalekites relate viaTimna, to Esau. Timna was a city north of Kades-Barnea, near Seir mountain. Gods curse/hate (Rom. 9:13) about Esau: to serve Jacob/Israël will eventually END (Ex. 17:14) This prophecy explains no artifacts found

@maryblessing2205 8 дней назад

Bible is truth. If Amalekites didn’t exist then it wouldn’t be written. ❤ 🙏📖✝️📖🙏🇮🇱

@gilbertoventura9730 5 месяцев назад

There are no more Amalekite...when IAUE BECAME IAUESHUA, the command was ...love your neighbor...

@user-uc8bn5iv1f Месяц назад

Amaleks? Just look at a certain county in Africa 😮

@narrowistheway77 Год назад

Amalekite will mean exactly what every other cultural name meant at that exact moment in the history of the world; “Sons of Amalek”. When we talk about Middle Eastern Archaeology we need to remember that the area is a giant 100,000,000 piece puzzle and we’ve only dug up 100 of the pieces. The Bible is the piece that completes the whole puzzle. Simple as that, GOD Bless! ❤️

@nadyiashazleen 7 месяцев назад

If it is true, the 1 of 100000000 piece of puzlle will found!

@enidsnarb 10 месяцев назад

They were the Hiksos (sp?) why directly after the exodus ravaged Egypt for a hundred years ! Check out David Rohl ! So yes this whole premise is utterly false !!!