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When did Judaism begin? Prof. Yonatan Adler - The Origins of Judaism [4K] 

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"When did Judaism begin?" is not a naive question. Every answer to this question would require presenting an acceptable definition of Judaism. Not an easy task. There are many definitions. Most (or all) of them are the subjects of fierce and never ending debates.
Prof Yonatan Adler of the Ariel University, face this challenge in his new book, The Origins of Judaism, which has already attracted much attention. In his study, he deals bravely with the definition of Judaism and then determines the time and place of its emergence.
On this talk with Alex, Prof Adler presents the methodology of his study, explains his analysis and shares his surprising conclusion: Judaism was probably widely adopted in the times of the Hasmonean dynasty throughout the second century BCE.
Now, is this early or late?
Yonatan Adler is associate professor in the department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Ariel University in Israel. He is a member of the State of Israel's Council for Archaeology since 2018.
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Q&A session with professor Yonatan Adler that follows up this episode
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@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
A link to purchase Prof. Adler’s new book The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (affiliated): Kindle amzn.to/3jYiiEG Hardcover amzn.to/3Ixfk41
@Dreadtower
@Dreadtower Год назад
All of the Anchor Yale books in the series are excellent. I have a number and have learnt a huge amount from them. Watch out for the publication dates when you view the catalogue though: scholars have moved on from the ‘60s when the earlier volumes were produced and some of these older editions contain theses which have been revised in the meantime.
@pamelaleibowitz3019
@pamelaleibowitz3019 Год назад
Prof Adler appears not to study the Torah in depth.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@pamelaleibowitz3019 - Adler is an archeologist and studies archeological finds that indicate behaviors following or not following the Torah. Do you think his archeological work would benefit from studying the Torah more and, if yes, how?
@Aaron565
@Aaron565 9 месяцев назад
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9lEyuXql4QE.html The earliest Judaic text is 1200BC, so 1k years off this video's incorrect date. Its at minimum hundreds of years older than that.
@TheStellarmanCo.
@TheStellarmanCo. 5 месяцев назад
Absolutely ridiculous, Biblical narrative isn't actually real, it's mere mythology
@rapier1954
@rapier1954 Год назад
It is a revelation to me to come to grips with the fact that Judaism is not nearly as old as I thought. Very informative video thanks for posting.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you 🙏
@clauderebello5362
@clauderebello5362 Год назад
It cant be that old.. according to their BIBLE.. IT ALL BEGAN ABOUT 5000 YEARS AGO..IN ISREAL..AND GOD IS A JEW!!
@JG-lx5pm
@JG-lx5pm Год назад
Abraham was born 1800 BEFORE Christ and he was a "GENERAL" of what LATER the Egyptians would call the Hycksos, they were refugees with the Egypcians later took advantage of their host and came to power then there were the 2 exodous (YES TWO) first was in war they were expelled by foce not mentioned in the bible, the second (in bible) was self expelled. It is believed that the Jews are an upshoot of Akhanaten (Amenhotech the 4) he was a desendant of the Hycksos by his mother (minor wife aka concubine) father was Egyptian after Akhanaten's death like 100 years later the first mention of Jews come about (it could have been a group of priests of Akhanaten's religion, mixed with cannan influences). So the leader is not older than 4K years old (Abraham, politeist) the Jews per say like 1200 before christ so less than 3.5k years from today.
@JustMe99999
@JustMe99999 Год назад
@@JG-lx5pm There is no evidence for nearly everything you posted, and what you posted does not match the scholarly consensus.
@JG-lx5pm
@JG-lx5pm Год назад
@@JustMe99999 No evidence ah? Welcome to organize religion, where everything you suppose to believe no matter how extraordinary and unnatural it may be is based of FAITH ONLY. As Jonathan Swift said: "if horses would talk and reason the way humans do, their God would look like a horse" as an anonymous teen once said: "well... we have to believe what religion says because they tell us to believe it, for all I care it could be martians from a UFO and we suppose to believe it?" That is how organized religion impose themselves on the masses to control them, controlled by people in power and or position of influence. GOD exist with and wtihout bible, or jews. Organized religion is just social poison.
@notanemoprog
@notanemoprog Год назад
Very well structured and ably conducted interview of a well-known and highly respected archaeologist on a difficult topic that people feel great attachment to! Adler's book is bound to be debated for years to come. Thank you to the interviewer Mr. Alex Tseitlin and I hope to see many more such illuminating contributions in the future!
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you, much appreciated!
@alexandertseitlin4703
@alexandertseitlin4703 Год назад
🙏thank you
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
I second that.
@AnthonyRamsay-tg8xg
@AnthonyRamsay-tg8xg 2 месяца назад
​@@KEDEMChannel what was Reuben calling?
@ianbrowne8871
@ianbrowne8871 Год назад
I have just discovered this channel - what a treat! i did my theology degree at Cambridge over 4O years ago - I just wish the lectures i heard then were as riveting as this one! Very clear explanation of the methodology and as with most religious history things look so much simpler when viewed at a distance. For Jews and Christians this opens up so many possibilities!
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you, stay tuned as we are about to release a few episodes filmed during our recent travel to Cambridge this month, we interviewed some of the best scholars, the first will be released in a day or two
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
@ianbrowne8871 There is a problem: absence of proof is not proof of absence. He said he doesn't know. In Israel archeological sites ancient and new are destroyed by our enemies. We are forbidden to dig under the Temple Mount. There are many limitations. We (Jews) we would like to know just as much as averybody else. Proof lf this is that this Israeli professor is catering for your need of truth. Some simple people still believe in Jewish conspiracies. I hope you are not one of them . Thank you for reading my comment.
@polemeros
@polemeros Год назад
"For Jews and Christians this opens up so many possibilities!" Like what? Jews and Christians parted ways 2000 years ago and for classical Judaism, Christianity is an abomination and for classical Christianity, Judaism is dead.
@inmyopinion651
@inmyopinion651 Год назад
Judaism today is not same as it was in OT is what I am getting from this which makes sense. The destruction of the temple in 70AD changed a lot about Judaism. I love looking at religion from a academics standpoint like this
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
The destruction of the temple indeed changed Judaism a lot: Sadducees and Essenes disappeared, Jewish Christians split off, Pharisees in Babylon developed Rabbinical Judaism. Adler's research focused on the time BEFORE 70AD: how the life of the people changed in the 2nd century BC by starting to follow the Torah. Most of the Old Testament or Hebrew bible was already written by then.
@ortho-g9826
@ortho-g9826 Год назад
I once heard a Jewish scholar say that "we entered Babylon as Israelites and we left there as Jews."
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
Most people going into Babylonian Exile were Judahites. Some of their ancestors were probably Israelites fleeing to Judah after the fall of the northern kingdom of Israel in 722BC. But they left Babylon as Jews, that sounds correct.
@rapier1954
@rapier1954 Год назад
I think that makes sense.
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Год назад
Orthodox-G - G-Ddamn right.
@mauricematla8379
@mauricematla8379 Год назад
And of course the jerk was wrong. THEY is the word he or she should have said.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@mauricematla8379 - insults weaken your claim.
@matthewstewart5113
@matthewstewart5113 Год назад
Thank you, Kedem, and Professor Yonatan Adler. very informative and well spoken. I personally would like a series like this one on all the world religions. Given the data available. Again Thank you.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Great suggestion, thank you!
@orangemanbad
@orangemanbad 7 месяцев назад
Unfortunately he’s got a lot of falsehood
@matthewstewart5113
@matthewstewart5113 7 месяцев назад
@@orangemanbad and what are those? vague statements with no information = very weak counter position.
@orangemanbad
@orangemanbad 7 месяцев назад
@@matthewstewart5113 yes. I’m not typing out a novel in a RU-vid comment. There’s plenty of archaeology and research. Very easy to find. Use google.
@petergross818
@petergross818 Год назад
Admirable is the amount of work Professor Adler put into this research. One of my science professors taught me that when one looks to observe specific things then one is only going to find those things, or not. Therefore, the correlation of such observations with other observations of a different perspective is made difficult by the incompleteness intrinsic in such an approach. In fact, Professor Adler points this out himself. Thank you for all your intriguing work, Professor Adler.
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
I also admire that he was faithful to himself. Through his research I see him and his wise equilibrium. He has succeeded were Jews can fail. Josephus and other famous Jews have failed because they sought to please non-Jews. Professor Adler has succeeded in my opinion, and as I said, I find it worthy of praise.
@shelleyhender8537
@shelleyhender8537 Год назад
What an enjoyable presentation…so appreciate your videos and all the effort you put into seeking out scholars and approaching such wonderful topics! Thank you again!🇨🇦☺🇮🇱
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
My pleasure! Thank you😊
@elizabethmorton4904
@elizabethmorton4904 Год назад
Excellent video/interview!! Thank you so much for your work!
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Glad you enjoyed it!
@y.s.miller4109
@y.s.miller4109 Год назад
Another great interview, Alex, and I have the book on order from Yale!
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you!
@ADEpoch
@ADEpoch 9 месяцев назад
This was a really good interview, thanks. I found it quite funny that you said that around 1st century CE even the Romans didn't put the emperor's figure on coins minted in Judea. It means that NT story of the "Who's image is on the coin... Render to Caesar..." blah blah blah, is a load of rubbish.
@oftin_wong
@oftin_wong Год назад
Very very interesting had me to the end. Love to see good science and religion together and not just biblical bias
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
@jamesr8584
@jamesr8584 Год назад
Judaism is based on the Biblical narrative. I really don't see how you can bring together 'science' or secular history with this religion. The Hebrew scriptures have been such an integral part of the Jewish experience, how can any Jew mesh this history with his faith?
@oftin_wong
@oftin_wong Год назад
@@jamesr8584 well, maybe you should've watched the video ...then you'd know They explain in detail how and why they use that very methodology at the beginning
@lloydgush
@lloydgush Год назад
Regardless of the definition, you never find the beginning, only the earliest version you can find.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
But you can find also times before the beginning when no version was around for sure. Together with your earliest version you can get a range of time for when a begin was possible.
@lloydgush
@lloydgush Год назад
@@Achill101 The world doesn't owe us that. I said it somewhere, but it seems like it's more like the opposite, rabbinic judaism in it's earliest form started with jewish colonies. I'm not disputing some cross polinization after, almost certainly it happened, but it's not an accident that ethiopian priests work like rabbies.
@pmichael73
@pmichael73 Год назад
A masterful presentation of controversial ideas that few could take offense at. Fascinating, and a starting point for further learning.
@alexandertseitlin4703
@alexandertseitlin4703 Год назад
Good point 👍
@danielfichman7517
@danielfichman7517 Год назад
Thank you Alex, and thank you Prof Adler. Great talk
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you!
@user-vz5ru3ux8i
@user-vz5ru3ux8i Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel hello sir, I tell you something. I absolutely agree with your version of decoding history. This is what I have been screaming in top of my voice. Because I understand what idol worship is all about. These HABIRUs were Outlaws, bandits thugs and thieves troublemakers who were exiled into canan by neighbouring countries. I mean they were dumping convicts Into canan to fend for themselves. Desert is a hostile place, you don't get food. What option left with them other than loot people for survival?. Abraham was a politician, a HABIRU, who proclaimed himself as a prophet. No prophet ever visited earth. Bad people claimed themselves as prophets. The worst of them was MOHAMMUD. . the so called Islamic Prophet
@ji8044
@ji8044 Год назад
I've read some of your work, very well researched. I'm now a subscriber.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thanks and welcome!
@thecorporategypsy
@thecorporategypsy Год назад
Well done. Fascinating and well covered.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thanks 🙏
@staninjapan07
@staninjapan07 Год назад
Thanks a lot. You cannot beat listening to a fascinating talk to make the housework go smoothly.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
😀 Glad you enjoy it!
@staninjapan07
@staninjapan07 Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel I read a book called The Wondering Who by Gilad Atzmon and a book called The Invention Of The Jewish People by Shlomo Sand of a university of Israel. It's a bit complicated at times, and I am not Jewish, but the history of this faith fascinates me. I did enjoy the video.
@Frauter
@Frauter 10 месяцев назад
What about the events described in the text? At the time of the exodus, might there not have been a birth of Judaism that then dissipated and was rekindled in the 3rd century BC? Is that plausible?
@diegopyt
@diegopyt Год назад
yes "the lack of evidence is not evidence for lack", but if you take every significant torah law behavior and for each one of them you don't find evidence before the hashmonenan period , I think you can say most for certain that the Jewish religious way of life started in that period. Thanks Alex for another excellent talk
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you 🙏
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
What are significant Thorah behaviors? Is not eating pigs one of them? IIRC there's evidence that pig eating in the Highlands of the Iron Age was on the decline, for whatever reason (maybe appearance of chickens). Another rule said the right feet of sacrificed animals belonged to the priests (sorry, Idk the passage name): in Tel Dan, an Israelite temple from before 722BC, they found accumulated right feet IIRC. That doesn't mean Torah existed (it did not), but that some older, traditional rules about pigs and right feet entered the Torah and became Jewish law later.
@reggievonramstein
@reggievonramstein Год назад
@@Achill101 or that means Torah existed. In a similar manner the priestly blessing was found on two silver amulets dating from the 7th century BC by Prof G Barkay. I am sure that there are more evidence that was ignored.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@reggievonramstein - yes, the evidence discussed here puts an earliest point only on the wide-spread acceptance of Torah. But there's other, literary evidence that large portions of the Torah were not composed before the Babylonian Exile: most famously, the story of Noah that has close parallels to the story of Ushnapishtin in the Gilgamesh Epos. But also that many parts of the Torah are never referred to by the Prophets. . . . That does NOT mean that all parts of the Tanach were only written down in the Exile or later: some passages clearly reveal knowledge of the time before 850BC. But most bible scholars today think that those written sources from earlier times were incorporated into larger writings later, edited and possibly rewritten to fit to other passages. The original writings, like the Chronic of the Kings of Israel and Chronic of the Kings of Judah, were lost, because they held less religious significance and were not copied carefully by later generations.
@giffica
@giffica Год назад
So Akal Panu we’re produced in the 2nd century? You’ll have to prove that. As far as the evidence is concerned, all the archeology shows a 5th century completion date. This guy is focusing on rabbinic Judaism. Yeah, ofc it arises in the 2nd century. Judaism and the Torah are much older and the stories are proven. More Troy nonsense.
@ts8538
@ts8538 Год назад
I enjoyed this very much. I find the point that the written regulations underlyiingJudaism might have arisen as a result of the influence of the Greek custom of having written laws to be very interesting.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
Thank you for this archeological view on when Jews accepted the Pentateuch as law. I have two questions: 1. Can we see which came first, the Maccabean revolt or some acceptance of the Torah around Jerusalem? (In other words: did the Hasmoneans enforce the law, or was there a time of a larger Torah-obeying movement that later birthed or inspired the Hasmoneans?) 2. The Pentateuch was also accepted as law in Samaria. Do we have any evidence that the law was accepted at about the same time in Samaria and Jerusalem, or did one region come before the other? Biblical scholars are today not certain which region accepted the Torah first, maybe archeology could help?
@elpidiogonzalez8193
@elpidiogonzalez8193 Год назад
I don't see much dietary kosher stuff in the writings of the prophets 900-587 BCE. We hear more about not doing justice, no protection of orphans, widows, and by 600 BCE opposing murdering children in human sacrifices. It is with Ezrah and Nehemiah where there is an enforcement of practices like Shabbat, Kosher foods,...
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@elpidiogonzalez8193 - the Torah was certainly not the guiding law of Judaism in Palestina in the 5. century BC. We can conclude that from the Elephantine letters that don't reveal any knowledge of the Torah but seem to indicate a normal relationship to Jerusalem and to its temple. Was it Ezra who brought the Pentateuch to and made it law in Jerusalem around 430BC? Or did it happen later, like 160BC as this video suggest, and the Book of Ezra is a pious projection of later developments into an earlier time, to give the development more authority?
@messianic_scam
@messianic_scam Год назад
where is the archaeological evidence or view! I don't see anything
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@messianic_scam - the expression "archeological view" was a reference to the video, in which the archeologist Adler describes the evidence for a relatively late adoption of the Pentateuch as law among the common people living around Jerusalem. The adoption seem to have happened only in the 2nd century BC.
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
The Samaritans could have been from anywhere in the Assyrian Empire, prisoners captured during war deported to the Kingdom of Israel. They were not Israelites. They worshipped idols at first. In the North the tribes of Israel were more open and assimilated, and lived side by side the strangers that lived in the North. If they later embraced the Torah: good for them. But it is not part of our History as fascinating as the story of those transferred people is. Usually the Assyrians never kept prisoners, they would slaughter them. So they were probably Assyrians that Nabuchadnezar 🤔 wanted to get rid of. And in Jerusalem people were building and forming a Jewish identity based on Torah. Because those transferred Asyrians were not part of the nation, ( I understand your question better now ) I understand the question has meaning from a Christian perspective. Sorry, as a Jew I was confused at first.
@kenmcclellan
@kenmcclellan Месяц назад
In the 3rd century BC, about the time the Torah was cobbled together from ancient texts at Alexandria, an Egyptian priest named Manetho said Judaism had originally been formed by an Osirian priest who changed his name from Osarseph and led a group of Sethians out of Avaris. So it is apparent that the Hebrews were appropriating snippets of literature and history going back a thousand years as their foundation myth. Interestingly, you can find pagan carved stones of the Heron (parent of Horus the Brave) in the Rift Valley of Israel just at Mt Horeb is its image on a grand scale. You can find Egyptian scarabs in Canaan seemingly spelling out divine names. We can find statues and drawings of Asherah. And in the north, we can find mosaic zodiacs even in the synagogue! So sometime betweeen the 3rd century BC and the time of Jesus, Sethian sage traditions going back at least a thousand years are being hidden or driven underground by monotheist iconoclasts. Jesus was, apparently, one attempting to bring back the wisom tradition. A great Seth image is engraved on his tomb (see the left side of the facade of the Talpiot Tomb). Several ancient historians carry the story of the donkey god's statue being found in the Temple when it was invaded in the 2nd century BC. jamestabor.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Facade.jpg scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=the+ass+in+the+temple&btnG= The rise of Seth at the demise of Orion/Osiris can be found around the world. I could show you proof among the Maya, the Ojuelans and the Nyonyosi. But it appears to be a sudden reversal of the Milky Way -- a Creation story. It is the rise of Lepus and the fall of Orion such is due again to occur in the approaching Apocalypse. The Bundahisn, chapter 4, says in the Taurian apocalypse the sky turned right. This time, it will turn left and an equatorial landmass -- some suspect India --will find itself at the new north pole.
@rillloudmother
@rillloudmother Год назад
I didn't know yall had a RU-vid channel. I love your tea biscuits and grape juice!
@sguissani
@sguissani Год назад
Awesome! And so refreshing to see scientists conducting their research in religious history, even when their findings, theories and conjectures are at odds with religious orthodoxy
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you 🙏
@everythingisalllies2141
@everythingisalllies2141 Год назад
a few centuries BC? Well that was the start of the worst period in human history, because of these beliefs. We are still suffering under this rule today.
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
@@everythingisalllies2141 please say more, I don't understand and it sounds interesting. What are we suffering today?
@everythingisalllies2141
@everythingisalllies2141 Год назад
@@margasa8548 the world has been tricked and deceived since this cult began, that's why they are so despised by those who study history.
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
@@everythingisalllies2141 can you just say it all? I'm a Jew nothing bad will happen to you. We believe in freedom of speech. You are free. You can say anything. Just attacking us and depriving ourselves from our lives is legally forbidden. Because we are human beings.
@erlinggaratun6726
@erlinggaratun6726 Год назад
Very interesting. And then you have Dr. Russell Gmirkin, who points to reasons to believe the Torah was mainly composed in the mid-third century BCE. So it would have been around for about a hundred years when the Hasmoneans gave it prominence..
@dot73
@dot73 Год назад
Thank you for the insights. That shed light on a lot of misunderstood concepts.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Glad it was helpful! Thanks 🙏
@holysquire8989
@holysquire8989 Год назад
Judaism partially transitioned from a national identity to a religious identity: From Israelite to Jew
@TheThinkersBible
@TheThinkersBible Год назад
Excellent summary. I like Alder's specificity regarding what he's actually discussing and his methodology for exploring the question he's investigating. It's also refreshing that he explicitly explains that "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." There are too many writers who don't understand that principle and who thusly don't account well enough for the reality that new discoveries can occur, or that absence of evidence may actually be a reasonable or even an expected outcome, depending on the conditions under which related ancient activities may have occurred.
@woodygilson3465
@woodygilson3465 Год назад
And yet, absence of evidence is exactly how we discern truth from falsehood in our everyday lives, is it not?
@TheThinkersBible
@TheThinkersBible Год назад
@@woodygilson3465 yes but that's drawing intuitive personal conclusions. That's not the standard for systematic scientific inquiry.
@woodygilson3465
@woodygilson3465 Год назад
@@TheThinkersBible Then if absence of evidence is sufficient to warrant personal belief, the presence of conflicting evidence must surely warrant confident disbelief. Asking for those of us who aren't scientists.
@TheThinkersBible
@TheThinkersBible Год назад
@@woodygilson3465 depends on the situation but often if not generally yes. That said, in a scientific scenario one must always be open to the possibility that new evidence can be discovered that overturns currently held opinion, however deeply held. Technically, science is based more on degree of confidence, technically not as much on certainty. But probability can be very high (99.9999999% confident, etc.).
@TheThinkersBible
@TheThinkersBible Год назад
@@woodygilson3465 that's also why we should always be careful when judging people. Not that we can't draw conclusions, but we should do so thoughtfully and with humility, not rashly and in a self-focused manner.
@stephenfisher3721
@stephenfisher3721 Год назад
I find it interesting and comforting that Professor Adler discusses evidence that Judaism in the time of Jesus was essentially the same as later Rabbinic Judaism because of the popular contrary view. Many Christians building on the ideas of Michael Heiser maintain that the Jews at the time of Jesus would have no problem with the Trinity. These Heiserites explain that monotheism in Judaism today comes from the Middle Ages and was completely different in the time of Jesus when Yahweh was only the main God who presided over a Council of lesser gods.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
I disagree and think: Judaism in the time of Jesus was very diverse. From Saducees over Essenes to Pharisees, there were many ways to practice Judaism. And Christians before 70CE, like Paul, thought of themselves as part of Judaism, too. The destruction of the temple and the Bar Kochba revolt changed that, even if some Christians observed Jewish holidays and feasts until the 4th century CE. . . . I agree with you about the trinity. It is a description of the mystery of God, following the Christology of the gospel according to John that itself was written AFTER 70CE. While later Christian exegets saw the trinity in the Old Testament, too, like the three men visiting Abraham, that was not how Judaism had seen it. The trinity is a Christian concept only.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
PS The idea of Yahweh presiding over a council of lesser gods might have been the religion of the old Israelite northern kingdom: Baal and Yahweh were both seen as real, and only Yahweh should be worshipped by Israel. But in the Babylonian Exile, Judaism became monotheistic, see Deutero-Isaiah. In the time of the Hasmoneans, Judaism had no notions of lesser gods.
@tomnola7204
@tomnola7204 Год назад
Very interesting and well explained. Thank you for this video
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Glad you liked it! Thanks 🙏
@PeloquinDavid
@PeloquinDavid Год назад
I had assumed that "Judaism" (the practice thereof) didn't actually emerge until the Babylonian exile (or more likely the Persian period and the return to Palestine under Cyrus). The miraculous-seeming nature of that development I always assumed was the spark that led to the development of most of the Tanakh (including even some/most parts of the Torah). But the limited evidence from the Persian and Hellenistic periods suggests the penetration of at least the praxis of Judaism (and maybe even the writing down of the laws in the Torah!) actually took centuries MORE... Wow.
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
Perhaps you expect this: ....Palestine?.... .... / is Arafat before Cyrus? Is the Roman Empire before Cyrus. I won't bother to extend myself because you are obviously a highly educated person. So, what moves you is not ignorance, but will. I am puzzled as to the fact that such an elevated and bright mind could so easily be clouded when it comes to semantically grouping the Philistines with the Palestinians. How is it that even the brightest of minds succumbs to darkness when it is about the Jews. When it is about the Jews, the most high up intellectuals fall pray to primitive history changing medieval thought. It's astounding.
@fredmeck3919
@fredmeck3919 Год назад
Great conversation. Must admit that I not in my lane with this comment, but Prof Adler’s findings seem to raise significant questions about the theology most of us know today. For instance, what is the distinction between “Jewish” as a people and “Jewish” as a belief system? And do his findings have significance for such Biblical stories as the Exodus? Would love to see more conversation with the Professor.
@nomos6508
@nomos6508 Год назад
very clear interview thanks
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you!
@KravMagoo
@KravMagoo 2 месяца назад
THANK YOU, Dr. Adler for pointing out that the community at Elephantine was founded contrary to Scripture. So many people try to promote issues of Biblical religion based on that community while ignoring the command that "you shall never return to Egypt". This also affects the production of the LXX as well.
@shabazgoondall4620
@shabazgoondall4620 Год назад
Shalom professor Jonathan yonatan adler very nice and informative lecture baruch HASHEM as a Persian yahoodi chabadnik proud of my faith my emunah is growing and my bina is getting better ☝️😉😙🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱😚😎🇵🇰🇵🇰🇵🇰😍😜☝️🇮🇱🇮🇱Shabbat 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇱shalom good shabbos from new York USA America
@danwallach8826
@danwallach8826 Год назад
Really interesting! Thoroughly enjoyed it.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Awesome, thank you!
@rogercloud6003
@rogercloud6003 Год назад
Yes, it was hilarious. I especially giggled when Prof. Adler said Alexander the Great began to reign in 330's BC/BCE. I found Prof. Adler to be right up there with Bruce Gore et-al.
@pianissimist
@pianissimist Год назад
A lucid and cogent presentation!
@Historian212
@Historian212 8 месяцев назад
Excellent and important discussion. But the interruptions for ads are annoying.
@stasvoshchinsky395
@stasvoshchinsky395 Год назад
Здравтвуйте ! Поздравляю с расширением линейки ( языковой) . По моему скромному мнению было удачно - понятно и не очень заумно... (нет отторжения ..)
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
🙏
@alexandertseitlin4703
@alexandertseitlin4703 Год назад
Спасибо !
@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489
@nuggetoftruth-ericking7489 Год назад
This was fascinating.. Thanks
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Our pleasure!
@MBiernat0711
@MBiernat0711 Год назад
What a surprise. I always thought Judaism an “ancient” religion- especially compared to Christianity- but - Christianity emerging less than 300 years after Judaism?? Completely unexpected
@Epta_Null
@Epta_Null 10 месяцев назад
It’s because Judaism as we know it to be is “newer” than what the beliefs of the Israelites, people of Judah, Levites, etc. Its gone through a long process of development and evolution and eventually reaching its “final stage,” or more well know state, in approx the 6th and 5th centuries with developments continuing into the common era. However, Judaism as a whole is ancient with its earliest beliefs dating back thousands of years ago in the Levant
@democraticpatriot2657
@democraticpatriot2657 Год назад
I wonder what this research implies as to the origins of the "Oral Torah" and the Mishnah.
@saschar5609
@saschar5609 Год назад
Interesting theories to the origin of Jewish legal culture. I´d recommend reading Russell E. Gmirkin´s book "Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible" in this regard.
@AnthonyRamsay-tg8xg
@AnthonyRamsay-tg8xg 2 месяца назад
What was Benjamin calling?
@herinsh
@herinsh Год назад
It surprises me that the evidence of ritual purity with regard to sacrifice isn’t noted as important or included in this discussion, there are numerous ancient sites that include only remains of clean animals throughout Israel, many which date before the Davidic era, additionally the textual development of the Hebrew language suggest a much more sophisticated literate people than the author suggests. Even the presence of an elaborate Temple from the time of Nehemiah suggests a more complex Temple pattern of anthropology.
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
Is there a sector of academia that detests everything biblical?
@claforestrie
@claforestrie Год назад
Great historical analysis!
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thanking you 🙏
@polemeros
@polemeros 6 месяцев назад
What's interesting about Adler as a man is that, according to his bio, he was educated in a yeshiva founded by Kook and was ordained a rabbi in the Orthodox mode. Would be interesting to know how he got from there to where he is now.
@fay1298
@fay1298 3 месяца назад
I only found your channel today as I was searching for Prof Finkelstein’s work, then I found a video with Prof Adler and then another one with Prof Maeir. I look forward to learning more about this ancient history from more scholars. Thank you for bringing this scholarly work to the public 🙏.
@markjohnson543
@markjohnson543 Год назад
This is very amazing what Professor Adler is saying. The implications of his research and methodology changes my ideas of ancient Judaism. I am wondering if the keeping of the Torah among the common people, which Prof. Adler seems to date as likely beginning only a few centuries BCE, may be tied to the establishment of the synagogue within Judaism. If my understanding is correct, the synagogues began to be a part of religious life about the same time as widespread observance of Torah. Previous to this, the almost exclusive place of worship was the temple, which was not very convenient to most people living outside of Jerusalem. With the establishment of synagogues, religious instruction and participation could become much more common in rural areas and smaller towns. I wonder if the professor has any comment on this possible connection.
@helenamcginty4920
@helenamcginty4920 Год назад
He actually did suggest this. He suggested that without synagogues the ordinary, illiterate people could not learn about the Torah.
@jackattack2608
@jackattack2608 Год назад
If the establishment of synagogues was the main place of the teachings of Judaism and they were established in many places outside Jerusalem, was there any central authority over the many centuries that was responsible for teaching "the true Judaism"? Or, would different rabbis at different locations be teaching different interpretations of the Torah? I would wonder if this was a recognized inconsistency within Judaism and perhaps the reason why the Christian Church used the words quoted from Jesus to establish "Peter" as the rock upon which the Church would be built. They established a central authority. Yet, even that never halted the many interpretations of the Gospel nor the schism 1500 years later. Judaism, or at least the temple, was crushed in 70 AD by the Romans. How was it taught after that period?
@markjohnson543
@markjohnson543 Год назад
@@helenamcginty4920 Right. I reviewed that section, and he does suggest such a connection. I had watched the video in sections and missed that crucial part the first time I watched it. Thank you.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
The Elephantine letters indicate that worship and sacrifice in Judaism of the 5th century BC was not exclusive to the temple. And why would it be? The archeological research by Adler indicates the Torah wasn't followed, until the Hasmoneans enforced it in the areas they conquered. That probably applied both to which food to eat and where to worship. From the Hasmonean kingdom, following the Torah probably spread to Jews outside of it.
@bohem5568
@bohem5568 Год назад
Really Interesting. In my opinion I see religion as an evolution of ideas of man's relation to the infinite and incomprehensible. Formed over time within the specifics of various cultures throughout history.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you 🙏
@Jack-eo5fn
@Jack-eo5fn Год назад
Bingo. Agreed.
@oftin_wong
@oftin_wong Год назад
"Religious synchronisity" is a fascinating journey into what you are observing there
@bohem5568
@bohem5568 Год назад
@@oftin_wong Not sure what you mean by that, or if I agree. Social and cultural issues don't stem from a void. They change and form from preexisting conditions.
@oftin_wong
@oftin_wong Год назад
@@bohem5568 who mentioned social or cultural issues or a void ?...all religions are built on a framework of the previous religion Example ...Judaism- Christianity - church of Mormon All come from the origins of Judaism ...no need to get upset I just thought you might be open to learnt something ...no matter If you were to google the two words 'religious synchronisity' you could see for yourself ...it's a thing
@hannojaanniidas9655
@hannojaanniidas9655 Год назад
Initially, I was shocked by Dr Adler's exposition because I thought Judaism was much older by some 600 years, but I'm persuaded by his arguments and the evidence he mounts, which is extensive. I'm a convert ! I've always had a hunch that the Hasmodian Dynasty played a key role in the rise of Judaism, but now I understand that it's key to forming the notion of Jewish statehood.
@hagaiabeliovich4276
@hagaiabeliovich4276 Год назад
How do we explain the Samaritans and their Torah and customs, which include Passover?
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
The question is when the Samaritans parted ways, this is highly debatable
@bell1095
@bell1095 Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel or did Judea drift
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel - I posed the question in my own reply, here again: can archeology help us to decide when Samaritans adopted the Torah, like before or after the people in Jerusalem? Maybe you could ask Prof. Adler?
@gordumherseyi
@gordumherseyi Год назад
dont u know accepting anthropological evidence of israelite history is supersititious 🤣
@milleziano
@milleziano Год назад
2 Kings 17:5-41
@leohorishny9561
@leohorishny9561 Год назад
Very interesting to learn so much of Judaic teaching and practice is essentially very modern, archeologically speaking.
@NuisanceMan
@NuisanceMan Год назад
Well... it's still ancient, really.
@leohorishny9561
@leohorishny9561 Год назад
@@NuisanceMan , given the average understanding of what Christianity and Judaism project are their "ancient" roots, I expected these traditions to be at least 1500 years BCE, and unknowingly, considered them possibly older. Particularly when the perception is, these traditions are older than Celtic Mesolithic dates. Couple that with known homo sapiens and variants co-existing tens of thousands of years prior to this, it's vital to put chronologies in actual comparison to any other known belief system. The Judeo-Christic centering of history at Ground Zero is too often ignored and stultifying.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
A link to purchase Prof. Adler’s new book The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (affiliated): amzn.to/3gOWslI
@oborotenn
@oborotenn Год назад
Unfortunately, the book is out of stock :(
@NullStaticVoid
@NullStaticVoid Год назад
I think he is stretching when he uses the ban on figurative depictions as the delineation. One thing about religion of all kinds is that in different times it has differing interpretations. In ancient times some parts of religious practice were only for the priests or monks. With the printing press we started to see people with religious texts outside of holy houses. This is true of Abrahamic faiths, Buddhism and Hinduism. Likewise, some of these rules were only enforced among the priesthood, not on the laity. With the Jews especially we see them taking their rules much more seriously after the Babylonian period. In first temple Judaism the rules were more important the closer to the temple.
@g.1260
@g.1260 Год назад
However, ideas (those include in written texts) do not exist in a vacuum. Even if there is not direct physical evidence of Jewish identity and practices prior to the 2nd c. ce, the biblical texts written prior - even amulets of the priestly blessing from before the exile - suggests that these express/reflect ideas and practices that were circulating. Would books with ideas so developed be construed out of whole cloth? At least foundational ideas and practices would have circulated very early on. To ask when did Judaism begin 'as we know it' is like asking when does a child become a teenager or a teenager an adult. It is the same person at different stages of their development. There are certainly benchmarks of course, but there are also considerable ancedents from which to build. And, in a way, both Judaism and Christianity are still in process - thus we can speak of, for example, Late Antiquity, Mediaeval, Contemporary Judaism and Christianity.
@2degucitas
@2degucitas Год назад
Thank you. Rabbi is very easy to listen to.
@Mario-Betti
@Mario-Betti Год назад
Also, I particularly appreciate when Prof. Adler says "I don't know"... Honest people are able to say "I don't know" when they don't know something
@margasa8548
@margasa8548 Год назад
Rabbi?
@fairalways
@fairalways Год назад
This was some VERY cool stuff. Contrary to what others might expect here, I was actually surprised by the sheer number of identifiably Jewish practices that we have evidence of BCE.
@North95
@North95 Год назад
Why would you think Judaism started in Jesus time?
@fairalways
@fairalways Год назад
@@North95 ?????????????????????????????? Sorry, I can't comprehend what I posted for you.
@nickf8989
@nickf8989 Год назад
The Greek OT (Septuagint) contains written evidence of Jewish religious practices in the two books of the Maccabees, the events of which occur in the first and second centuries B.C.
@paulajohnson9937
@paulajohnson9937 Год назад
Thank you and my congratulations on a very interesting lecture.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Many thanks!
@WagesOfDestruction
@WagesOfDestruction Год назад
It is exciting, but I have my doubts. We know the ancient Jews had a high rate of literacy. Sabbath is mentioned in the bible long before 200 BCE. Now, if you accept the bible as pre-200 BCE, how is that possible? Also, the reason for the rebellion with the Greeks was over these religious practices. We may be talking of widespread use, not beginning.
@JopJio
@JopJio 6 месяцев назад
Bart Ehrman says that about 5% of Israel could read or write
@WagesOfDestruction
@WagesOfDestruction 6 месяцев назад
I wonder what happened to my previous answer, anyway I doubt this is true, Check this study www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200910110828.htm
@miriamgonczarska613
@miriamgonczarska613 Год назад
Yes, I agree that was the beginning of the "Hillelian" interpretation of the Torah, as simple as that. All examples talk about a contemporary understanding of the Jewish practice, and interpretation of the Torah according to , which started to increase in its popularity toward the end of the Second Temple. The Shammai practices were older and didn't require building of the mikvah. Torah talks about going to rivers, and works around the ceramic issues of impurity is just a specific group of rabbis' solution to Torah laws. Yes, Jesus if to believe Christian scripture was part of this movement, but those scriptures don't cover multiple laws too. I don't remember Shavuot there or a New Year celebration. We don't have good sources, unfortunately. I am happy that this book seems to prove the ancient roots of rabbinic practices because many claim later inventions. Yet the way he puts together this as proof that Jews didn't know Torah before is a stretch if not a lie.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
The Christian scriptures that have survived were written in Greek and influenced by Paul of Tarsus (except maybe the Didache). Paul de-emphasized the rules of Jewish life in favor of a theological view of God and Jesus. The Jewish life we see in the gospels is more of a background to the "real story" of Jesus' life and sacrifice.
@claesvanoldenphatt9972
@claesvanoldenphatt9972 Год назад
Adler is saying that archaeology cannot prove widespread adherence to Torah before the Hasmoneans. He also says absence of proof is not proof of absence.
@miriamgonczarska613
@miriamgonczarska613 Год назад
@claesvanoldenphatt9972 and I am saying his interpretation of what counts as Torah observance is anachronistic.
@miriamgonczarska613
@miriamgonczarska613 Год назад
@claesvanoldenphatt9972 we didn't find Shabbat clocks in ancient Israel that means that didn't keep Shabbat 🙄
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 - Isn't using Adler a rhetorical slight of hand when implying from "Thorah as a whole wasn't observed before Hasmoneans" to "there is no archeological evidence for some Jewish rules long before the Hasmoneans"? Because IIRC there is ample archeological evidence for avoiding pigs in Judah 600BC and some evidence of keeping the right feet of slaughtered animals for the Tel Dan temple 750BC. Those traditional rules then made it into the Torah, too.
@puccini4530
@puccini4530 Год назад
Wonderful conversation. So interesting. Alas STUFFED with multiple ads. THIS NUMBER OF ADS IS JUST GREEDY FOR REVENUE. PLEASE SET TO REDUCE THE AD CONTENT. THE CONSTANT INTERRUPTIONS REALLY SPOIL THE FLOW OF INFORMATION. THIS AN IMPORTANT ACADEMIC VIDEO THAT SHOULD BE PUBLISHED WITH MORE RESPECT FOR VIEWERS. (PLEASE FORGIVE MY SHOUTING.)
@pbasswil
@pbasswil Год назад
Confused: Adler keeps referring to 2 to 3 centuries BCE, interchangeably with his references to 'The Common Era'. I assume he means to say _'Before_ the Common Era,' since The Common Era now refers to what-used-to-be-called (in Christian terms) 'AD' - the years since Jesus of Nazareth; i.e.,some centuries after the period he refers to.
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Год назад
What we would recognize as a mature form Torah-based Judaism did not come about until Hellenistic times. Before that, and especially prior to the Babylonian Captivity and the Achaemenid Period, it is highly unlikely that the Israelites were in any way distinguishable from other Canaanites in either their religious practices or material culture.
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Год назад
@Pray without ceasing - True for the former. As to the latter, it’s an interesting premise; not one I subscribe to, but interesting all the same.
@bluebee5266
@bluebee5266 Год назад
@@dorianphilotheates3769 *subscribe to
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Год назад
@@bluebee5266 - Thanks for catching that - corrected.
@amazinggrace5692
@amazinggrace5692 Год назад
Well said, thankfully because I was having trouble wording it clearly!
@dorianphilotheates3769
@dorianphilotheates3769 Год назад
@@amazinggrace5692 - Which part?
@hypercube717
@hypercube717 Год назад
Interesting
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you!
@rubenjames7345
@rubenjames7345 Год назад
Really interesting discussion.
@spacepope69
@spacepope69 Год назад
My question is why/where did these rules/laws come from? And 'god gave them the laws' won't make it. Is there some practical reason for those rules/laws?
@stultusvenator3233
@stultusvenator3233 Год назад
Excellent work and solid conclusions. We forget sometimes the people were always around Religions emerged and evolved driven by circumstances and leaders or conquerors.
@technicianbis5250
@technicianbis5250 Год назад
"religions emerged" God came first, we didn't invent the true God he invented us. It's common knowledge people even non believers will pray in times of great hardship. God has not abandoned us, we abandoned God.
@stultusvenator3233
@stultusvenator3233 Год назад
@@technicianbis5250 It is common knowledge that many do not pray in times of hardship too. SO What! It is also true theists pray to many different gods and get the same (or worse) results than not doing so or praying to a Milk Jug. A comfortable fantasy feels good, but it does not mean it true.
@technicianbis5250
@technicianbis5250 Год назад
@@stultusvenator3233 And yet we see non believers pray.
@stultusvenator3233
@stultusvenator3233 Год назад
@@technicianbis5250 Sure, some would but they are culturally indoctrinated into whatever the prevailing religious conditioning has planted in them. A Hindu would be praying to one of the Hindu gods. Non-believers are most often ex-believers so are primed in this sense. Interesting that this happens in a Crisis when the brain may not be functioning properly, or fear and terror are flooding the mind with chemicals. We still see plenty who don't so your sweeping statement is wrong, also when they do the prayer has NO discernable effect so is useless. Further demonstrating their conditioned emotional belief is wrong and adding to the no god evidence pile.
@technicianbis5250
@technicianbis5250 Год назад
@@stultusvenator3233 "sure some" True and this is why we peeach the gospels in their lands as well. Jesus commanded us to go into the world and preach the good news even unto death. While true most non believees today were once believers, when they see Christ return they also will become believers again but maybe too late for them so we warn them to return. "no discernable effect" Remember Christians don't live for this life, we live for the kingdom of God in that even if we die, we are resurrected to life eternal just as Jesus was. "further demonstrating" Belief by faith is paramount, we have evidence of Christs life among us but faith is paramount, remember the apostle thomas who wouldn't believe Jesus was alive till he saw him? Well he saw him and was told by Christ himself "how happy are those who don't see yet believe"
@giladmiron
@giladmiron Год назад
אלכס פשוט נהדר
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you :)
@alexandertseitlin4703
@alexandertseitlin4703 Год назад
תודה רבה 🙏
@IkeMann100
@IkeMann100 4 месяца назад
Excellent interview!
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel 4 месяца назад
thanks for a kind words
@paulajohnson9937
@paulajohnson9937 Год назад
Then what was it called before it emerged into Judaism?
@alexandertseitlin4703
@alexandertseitlin4703 Год назад
Cult
@bobsmith-hd2zr
@bobsmith-hd2zr Год назад
it was a Canaanite sub sect
@user-qh3qb1ms3i
@user-qh3qb1ms3i Год назад
כל הכבוד אלכס אוהבים אותך
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
תודה רבה!
@messianic_scam
@messianic_scam Год назад
messianic troller spotted
@Yohanan01
@Yohanan01 5 месяцев назад
I have listened to that interview, and read many of the comments. It baffles me that almost everyone is asking questions based on false premises. Everybody seems to confuse Torah teachings with Judaism. Some even use the idea of "Jews" in the sixth century BCE. This amount of confusion is a result of Rabbinical Judaism which emerged out of the Talmud and the Mishnah way after the return from captivity. The Nomer "Judaism" did not even exist back then. No one thought of a religion called Judaism. The people that went and came out of Egypt were not Jews. They were Israelites: children of Jacob (Israel). They were named by the patriarchal name of each tribe, examples: Danites, Levites, Ephraimites, Benjamites, etc. All Jews are Israelites, but all Israelites are not Jews. The kingdom of the North wasn't known as Jews. They were Israelites. In the South we had Judah. The children of Benjamin had joined themselves to the tribe of Judah; thefore, their identity became fused with that of the Yahudim. Some of the Levites had also joined the house of David. Prophetically, the scepter would not depart from Judah. Thus the Law stayed with Judah. Therefore, since the latest powers that conquered the children of Israel, were dealing with the children of Judah, from Nebuchadnezzar to Cyrus to the Greeks (Hellenist Antichus Epiphanes), then the Romans, they thus called the sort of what Jews were doing as the religion of Judah, or the religion of the Jews. Only children of Judah are Jews. This is what Rabbinical Judaism deliberately doesn't tell people. The misinformation is so pervasive that I've heard remarks regarding Jacob and even Abraham being Jews. Can you imagine? They also want you to beleive that you are Jewish by your mother, only, which automatically excludes the 12 sons of Jacob, 99% of today's Jews, the converted sons of Ashkenaz (Ashkenazi Jews who look different from Middleastern Jews, to this day). The concept of a religion called Judaism is wholly recent, and different from authentic Torah teachings. Of course, most people don't know that, for they only regurgitate what Rabbi or Rambam so and so says. They all replaced the mitzvots of HaShem Elohim by their own teachings, so that they can receive honor from one another. According to prophet Isaiah they've caused my people to forget my Name. This is why, for those of you who don't know, they teach Judaists to say HaShem, meaning the Name, as though HaShem means G'd, which is false; but, what is His Name? They won't tell you? There is so much more to say. We don't have enough space, here.
@xiaodown
@xiaodown Год назад
I know that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but from other sources (Israel Finkelstein and others), we do know that settlements in the Levant after the Late Bronze-Age Collapse generally speaking do not show evidence of significant percentages pig bones, where they do have cattle, sheep, and goat bones (and sites like Gath do show significantly higher percentages of pig bones). This would not disprove Adler's thesis, but it would show that there are at least some Jewish cultural identity markers going back to at least around 1100ish BCE. Whether this is evidence of "following the Torah" or evidence that the Torah followed a cultural custom already established is up for debate, I suppose, and there is some more recent data showing that the divide between Iron Age Philistine and Hebrew sites may not be as wide as previously thought, but any discussion of historical Kashrut should account for the data. This of course does not invalidate all the stuff he was talking about with ritual pools and phylacteries and coins with graven images, which I do not doubt there is little to no evidence of before the 2nd century BCE.
@37Dionysos
@37Dionysos Год назад
Judaism is a set of beliefs and practices (not a genetic or racial inheritance). So if you're Jewish but you don't believe in or practice it, how are you Jewish?
@shainazion4073
@shainazion4073 Год назад
Because being a people, and practicing the culture are two different things. If you are French, have 2 French parents, but were brought up in Japan and don't speak french, or eat croissants, does that make you not French?
@37Dionysos
@37Dionysos Год назад
@@shainazion4073 So then (to repeat), on what basis is one part of "a people"? Culture doesn't travel in the genes.
@majerovi
@majerovi Год назад
you jewish because your mother was jewish born into not believe in
@who167
@who167 Год назад
Jewish, in Hebrew, is the same word as Judean, "Yehudi". That is, a Jewish person in that context is a person from the Kingdom of Judah, or a descendant of that kingdom. This is what I figured, anyhow.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@shainazion4073 - I don't think your example is especially good, because I would say about that person, raised in Japan, not speaking French: the person is not French. There must be more than a connection by genes, maybe a desire to learn the French language and have started learning it, despite difficulties.
@joeneil5485
@joeneil5485 Год назад
As a goy who is interested in all things Judaica, I say this video is great stuff! Mazel! / I would've thought 'Jewishness' originated during David's time or before...? Maybe even 1,000 BCE...! But the various layers of the HUGE body of Jewish writing related to law, customs, and mode of living came much later, yes...? Late antiquity and the medieval era in Iraq...?
@shaheedabdulazeez7366
@shaheedabdulazeez7366 Год назад
Goy ,goyim means subhuman.
@joeneil5485
@joeneil5485 Год назад
@@shaheedabdulazeez7366 incorrect
@PrometheanRising
@PrometheanRising Год назад
David who may or may not have existed?
@joeneil5485
@joeneil5485 Год назад
@@PrometheanRising I believe there's historical proof of David's existence...? I may be wrong...
@WildBillCox13
@WildBillCox13 Год назад
Liked, subbed, and shared.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you 🙏
@simonbartlett5094
@simonbartlett5094 Год назад
If the Torah existed, perhaps for centuries, before it's adoption as the basis of Jewish identity and observance by the masses, some questions arise. 1) Where was it, who were it's custodians, and who was its audience? Without knowing anything about the subject it's an attractive idea that the laws were originally the preserve of a priestly caste at the temple. If that is the case, then how extensive an influence did this caste have on Judean life? 2) During those centuries, was the text still evolving? 3) Before generalised observance of the laws among the masses, what bound Judean identify?
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
Kedem has another video up with your question and Adler's answer.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
About Judean identity: the Hasmoneans brought Torah observance to many areas with the sword, like Idumaea, Galilee. By the first century CE, Jewish identity in Galilee was strong, as you can see from Jesus and his followers but also from Jewish history after 70CE when Galilee became a center for Jewish Rabbis.
@danielfreed2988
@danielfreed2988 Год назад
I dont understand his logic. That papyrus was clearly talking about passover because it has the exact dates and talks about leaven. Why cant it be used as evidince that the people kept Judaism? It seems like he may not want to admit this evidence because it doesnt fit his agenda that there is no evidence earlier than the Hasmonean period.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
As far as I understand, חמרא is not necessarily leaven. Specifying dates without the relevant context is not an indicator of them celebrating Passover. It could be, but it is not a proof as far as I understand Adler
@danielfreed2988
@danielfreed2988 Год назад
No archeology is an absolute proof. This seems to me like pretty good evidence because it is the exact dates and it means beer and talks about storing it away. That is a lot of circumstancial evidence that it is talking about Pesach. The problem is if Dr Adler does not want to accept this evidence, how do I know there is not other evidence that he does not want to accept?
@EylonU
@EylonU Год назад
@@danielfreed2988 He speaks about it voluntarily. Why should one worry?
@amazinggrace5692
@amazinggrace5692 Год назад
I understood the professor as saying that the extant text, taken by itself, can only tell us a certain amount. The reconstructed text presumes to represent what might have been written.
@user-bo8nb2mi
@user-bo8nb2mi Год назад
Well paid absent minded professors are a dime a dozen. Ph.D p iled h igh and d eep. Obeying what's written isn't their forte. Probing incessantly with inconclusive results is.
@sandraagungagung9356
@sandraagungagung9356 Год назад
good for using English, because I need to know about Judaism. Judaism for me is a fundamental of my faith, I am Christian from Indonesia , and my country majority are Muslim. often Christian got hit by Muslim because we lack of knowledge about the of Judaism. I think the root came from the history of Abraham Who had the kids in which Muslim and Christian claim each others. So by listening this lecture can be help about whose Jews are. Thank you for sharing this knowledge .
@claesvanoldenphatt9972
@claesvanoldenphatt9972 Год назад
Muslims are called Hagarenes and Ishmaelites because they are conventionally descended from the Egyptian slave woman who bore Ishmael before Sarah bore Isaac. Muslims claim Ishmael received the blessing and inheritance of Abraham,as a polemic against Jews and Christians. The Muslim identity and doctrine is cadged together from apocryphal sources that give a very tendentious take on Jewish amd Christian traditions, and vaunt Arabs as ‘God’s most-favored nation’ parodying Jewish nationalism which itself is based on poor understanding of the Covenant God plights with his beloved Israel. Islam is a sad accident of religious history that doesn’t stand up to serious scholarship.
@sandraagungagung9356
@sandraagungagung9356 Год назад
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972 Thank You for Answering my comment, I hope my people will read this statement, so that not judge us as different from them. Thanks.
@michaels4255
@michaels4255 Год назад
In the youtube search bar, type in Pfander Films or Jay Smith and you will learn a lot (from a Christian viewpoint) about the origin of Islamic customs, beliefs, scriptures, etc. that even most Muslims don't know. There are a few other channels that address this topic too.
@TheLookingOne
@TheLookingOne 2 месяца назад
Prof. Adler keeps referring to the time just before the Hasmonean period as the 'third century of the common era'. That would be the 'third century BEFORE the common era'. Correct?
@KumaresanRamalingam
@KumaresanRamalingam Год назад
@ 0:58 Please explain who are Jewish?
@user-ro4df1wz6r
@user-ro4df1wz6r Год назад
The word Saturday in Hebrew: Shabbat mining rest. It's very likely that the people who named it that way, much earlier then 200bc, lived in society that rest on Saturday.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Yes, but the source of the word is way older than Hebrew, in Akkadian the word is šapattu
@user-ro4df1wz6r
@user-ro4df1wz6r Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel The names of the others days are not Akkadian names, they are just numbers. Shabbat could maintain the Akkadian name if he had relevant mining in Hebrew or at list unique status.
@oborotenn
@oborotenn Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel source of the word , but not its intrinsic meaning
@epicofgilgamesh9964
@epicofgilgamesh9964 Год назад
@@yosefgreen3130 Hebrew is a Canaanite dialect. *"Canaanite languages - Britannica"* ("Group of Northern Central or Northwestern Semitic languages including ***Hebrew,*** Moabite, Phoenician, and Punic.") "As the Hebrew Bible notes, the Hebrew language itself is a Canaanite language, literally the “lip of Canaan” (שְׂפַת כְּנַעַן; Is. 19:18), and so it cannot often be distinguished by modern scholars from other Canaanite inscriptions on purely linguistic grounds." *"Polytheism and Ancient Israel’s Canaanite Heritage. Part V | theyellowdart"*
@rahowherox1177
@rahowherox1177 Год назад
Saturday refers to Saturnalia. .. the planet / god Saturn ... the morning star... coincidence it sounds like sabbath day.
@danieshed7442
@danieshed7442 Год назад
Would be interesting to know how he imagine the worshiping practice was like in the temple in Egypt.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Yes, hope to have more interviews with Prof. Adler, I will ask him for his opinion.
@BobSmith-lb9nc
@BobSmith-lb9nc Год назад
There were actually two Jewish temples in Egypt: One at Elephantine in upper Egypt, which had been established well before the Persian period, and a second at Tell El-Yahudieh in lower Egypt, which was established by the high priest Onias IV in the Hellenistic period.
@notanemoprog
@notanemoprog Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel Please do if at all possible, looking forward to that!
@julianpetkov8320
@julianpetkov8320 Год назад
@@BobSmith-lb9nc The Greek Oligarchy did not create the "jews" until 70 BCE. At least according to the mainstream narrative. They render it as "Roman conquest of the Chanian Greek ("Canaan") colony Palestine", or as later Roman texts renamed it - "Judea". "Ancient Egypt" was a myth invented by Thales of Miletus to combat Balkan "anti-Semitism". The Greeks were in the process of colonising the Balkans, from their native Asia Minor, and were not appreciated by the Balkan natives, to put it softly. Thales tried to convince them that dark people are not inferior, because in Africa, "once upon a time, there was Great Egypt". So Ancient Egypt was already either a myth or just a concept for future - cement stucco on sterile ruins fraud, at 500 BCE. And nobody knew of any "jews" for another 400 years. Note that I don't capitalise the word jews. That's because it was a profession - an agent of the Greek Oligarchy, not a tribe or a nation.
@BobSmith-lb9nc
@BobSmith-lb9nc Год назад
@@julianpetkov8320 Yes, and Narnia isn't real.
@jefferyansani1923
@jefferyansani1923 Год назад
Fantastic interview! Thank you. Now we only need to figure out where the people came from lol.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks 🙏
@woodygilson3465
@woodygilson3465 Год назад
They came from Canaan. They were Canaanites before they were Israelites.
@spitimalamati
@spitimalamati Год назад
Nice lecture/discussion, thank you. When did ritual sacrifice of animals end? Was it related to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in the 1st century? Is there evidence it was present during the Hasmonean era? Was it central to community worship?
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
I don’t have evidence at hand that there were sacrifices in the second temple, but I’m sure it happened. But all sacrifices ended. We don’t know if it was the first destruction in 70CE or the banning of Jews from Jerusalem in 135CE that ended it.
@ulexite-tv
@ulexite-tv Год назад
Wow! My theory exactly! I have never heard an academic or scholar describe this, but i had this same idea when i was teenager, back in the 1960s, after reading some history -- and although i never followed through with it, i just felt it was "right." As a Jew, i THANK YOU for collecting, analyzing, and publishing the data.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Thank you 😊
@BobSmith-lb9nc
@BobSmith-lb9nc Год назад
Adler ignores the Ketef Hinnom amulets from the First Temple period. Indeed, we have strong evidence that a form of Judaism existed even in 2nd millennium BC Ugarit. What were Canaanites doing observing an early form of Judaism? Of course modern rabbinic Judaism does begin with Hillel and his associates, but that is not the beginning of Judaism.
@Darisiabgal7573
@Darisiabgal7573 Год назад
Ugaritic culture was centered around El Elyon and the Elohim. In that culture Yahu (the northern version of Yahweh) is a child god of El Elyon. Yahu (E.g. the orogin of the word Yahudah) would be at the same level as Anat, Hadat, Molock, etc. There were 70 of these children gods. The cunieform tablets at Ebla tell us that Yahu was syncretic with Ea and Enki. Ea was the father of Marduk who replaced Enlil as the power god in Akkad and Sumer. El Elyon was an imported god, it was brought to Canaan in the conquests of 2500 BC, El was to be a wilderness god, it was the god that protected Sumerian traders. The Sumerians and Akkadians established trading posts so that they could trade in the west (Egypt, Cypress, anatolia). Each settlement large enough had a patron deity. What was the city of the Enki. The city the egyptians identified as Beth Lahmu was the guardian of Enki, this city in the Iron age is known as Bethlehem. So that it "appears" that bethlehem was the center of Yahudah at some point in and before the LBAC.
@BobSmith-lb9nc
@BobSmith-lb9nc Год назад
@@Darisiabgal7573 Yahu is unrelated in etymology to Yahuda.
@keith6706
@keith6706 Год назад
All the Ketef Hinnom finds prove is that at least some people believed in Yahweh, and some sayings were around that later made it into the Bible. That's it. As he pointed out, he isn't concerned about what people believed, he's only concerned about what people actually did.
@BobSmith-lb9nc
@BobSmith-lb9nc Год назад
@@keith6706 Ketef Hinnom demonstrate that the primary priestly blessing for Yom Kippur was already normative, not to mention the possible enclosure in a mezuzah or phylactery. Minimalism always ignores actual evidence.
@keith6706
@keith6706 Год назад
@Bob Smith And this demonstrates the blessing came from the Yom Kippur ritual, and not that a later Yom Kippur ritual later adopted this blessing how?
@robsellars9338
@robsellars9338 4 дня назад
When the professor produces the coin example with graven images on it from immediately before john hyrcanus (the first maccabee) - isnt this why John Hyrcanus revolted against this foreign rule of the seleucids in the first place? Not a good example to prove his thesis I should think?
@AnonymousStruggler
@AnonymousStruggler Год назад
fascinating question and unfortunately a simplistic answer. "Obey My Voice and you shall be my treasured possession" Ex 19:5. for me the question why how did this verse come to be and how does one implement this verse is what is important. God says 142 times in the Bible "Obey My Voice" should this not be where the answer begins, what is more important than obeying the voice of God? God is a Living God, Ex 32:1-11 talks about the golden calf. One could almost say Obeying the Voice of God is the worship and following other objectives is the path of the golden calf. Ex 4:8 is translated 1000% incorrectly. Instead of working on dietary laws, how about looking at the original Hebrew and working with the messages that God has given us.
@MrJoebrooklyn1969
@MrJoebrooklyn1969 Год назад
Modern day Judaism (Rabbinical) began with the destruction of the 2nd Temple is 70 AD but the grounds for Rabbinical Judaism really started with the Babyloniam exile in 586 BC.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
What do you mean with "the grounds of Rabbinical Judaism"? If you mean writings that later entered the Tanach unmodified, then we don't know that. If you mean writings that entered modified, one could see also pre-exile and even Israelite time (750BC) as the grounds.
@MrJoebrooklyn1969
@MrJoebrooklyn1969 Год назад
@@Achill101 I mean the prayers that replaced the animal sacrifices. That's Rabbinical Judaism as opposed to the actual religion of the Israelites that had the Priesthood and animal sacrifices.
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@MrJoebrooklyn1969 - I think we agree that with destruction of temple in 70CE, animal sacrifices ended. Do you claim the prayers that replaced the sacrifice in Rabbinical Judaism but are not in the bible were formulated in Babylonian exile already? I had expected them to be from after 70CA, too, when the Talmud was written.
@MrJoebrooklyn1969
@MrJoebrooklyn1969 Год назад
@Peter T I don't know if they are in the Bible or not, all I'm saying is this began to be a practice after the destruction of the 2nd Temple.
@JopJio
@JopJio 6 месяцев назад
That's not true at all. Todays christianity is Pauline and not Jewish, the faith of Jesus
@oborotenn
@oborotenn Год назад
Pigs bones in Iron Age 1 layers preserved almost exclusively for Canaanites - he "forgot" it, as it doesn't fit his narrative
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
In most of the Canaanites' site there is no evidence of such bones, this was not exclusive to the Israelites
@oborotenn
@oborotenn Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel Actually, you have a discussion at your other channel where this was examined and your guest claimed exactly the opposite 😂
@who167
@who167 Год назад
I too recall hearing this in the other channel but there's no need for that attitude.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
So? We interview many scholars, they sometimes have different views
@oborotenn
@oborotenn Год назад
@@KEDEMChannel Views can be different, while decision not to touch at all on the most known finding of the bones is what I defined as "forgot"
@free_gold4467
@free_gold4467 Год назад
Very interesting, thank you.
@KEDEMChannel
@KEDEMChannel Год назад
Very welcome!
@michaecarney2626
@michaecarney2626 Год назад
Moses did not say we had to have the temple in Jerusalem, the hasmonean zealots left Judea and attacked the isrealite temple On mt gerazim,there were competing sects of Judaism,the sa maritism offered to help Judah build the temple in Jerusalem,Judah H killed them and g-d cursed Judah for her sims,by giving then M the Herodeans and the false high priests cheap his who were unclean puppets of Rome,Jesus was a prophet who saw the sin of Judah, and he paid with his life this started fudahs final sin the destruction of the temple as Jesus preachsd Ina
@JakobVirgil
@JakobVirgil Год назад
"there is Judaism in the new testament but none in the old testament"
@simonskinner1450
@simonskinner1450 Год назад
And there is no Christianity in the new testament.
@barneygimble8984
@barneygimble8984 Год назад
Be ause Judaism began with Judas Iscariot Judaism is named after judas
@JakobVirgil
@JakobVirgil Год назад
@@simonskinner1450 Very little if any at all. I don't see much of Calvin's TULIP for instance.
@JakobVirgil
@JakobVirgil Год назад
@@barneygimble8984 Who was Judas named after?
@simonskinner1450
@simonskinner1450 Год назад
@@JakobVirgil No TULIP , unmerited grace, everyone's a sinner, all classic themes but not truth. No Christians just Born Again Jews. I have a Ytube video series covering all these topics called 'Myths in so-called Christianity', you may be interested.
@otracuentaperra4290
@otracuentaperra4290 Год назад
The conflation between what is called "Judaism" today and actual Torah is the main problem. Today's Judaism in an invention that includes the addition of the Talmud and even Kabbalah. They are BOTH called Torah by the tenets of today's "Judaism". BUT the Torah states that adding or subtracting to and from the Torah is prohibited. Today ONLY a group of Jews follow the Torah without additions . They are called Karaites and are hated by the followers of the amalgamation called "Judaism" today. By the way the Talmud was invented in the year 500 CE. which is WAY after Christianity.
@kristine8338
@kristine8338 Год назад
Concerning the Talmud, yes this might be True however it adds its value to the basic text.
@otracuentaperra4290
@otracuentaperra4290 Год назад
@@kristine8338 However the claim by today's "Judaism" is that the Talmud is actually Torah "she baal pe or oral Torah" given at Mt. Sinai and that is what makes the whole thing self evidently spurious. If it was purported as just a Torah commentary there would not be any self evident spurious claims thus there would be no loss of credibility. The main problem with the whole Talmudian claim is that such Rabbinic invention is put at the same level (or superior) to the actual Torah to the point that contradicting Talmudian Rabbis requires death (or today's equivalent) expulsion from the community. And Karaites are hated because they follow only Torah .
@raviarjuna9839
@raviarjuna9839 Год назад
What about the masoretes?
@otracuentaperra4290
@otracuentaperra4290 Год назад
@@raviarjuna9839 The Masoretes wrote copies of the Torah...The real Torah. Plus they were about from the 5th to the 10th century thus they really can not be used as a testimony for a Talmud that supposedly was originally from Mt. Sinai as claimed by today's "Judaism".
@miketsif
@miketsif Год назад
I love when “experts” who won’t share their names unequivocally define what Judaism is and isn’t.
@redsix5165
@redsix5165 7 дней назад
7:59 this will be interesting. I am pretty sure there was a temple built ~800y before that, which had a lot to do with Torah-proscribed practices.
@davefoc
@davefoc Год назад
I'm halfway through. I've watched this far because I'm trying to understand how the second story BCE Judaism relates to the Torah which dates a few centuries before. Is his theory that the religion in about the sixth century BCE that the Torah came from is fundamentally different than the second century BCE Judasim even if the Torah was a focus for the sixth century BCE Jews? That has been my question since the start and It's been tedious waiting to hear that issue addressed.
@gabrielspring4401
@gabrielspring4401 Год назад
Yeah I was/am confused about this too, but I don't think his theory involves Judaism "changing" during that period, but rather actually "beginning" as a pervasive way of life. The religion of the people living in the kingdom of Judah, I believe he is theorizing, would not be considered Jewish, because it wasn't Torah-centric. The people wouldn't have had the stories, the legends, the myths, the rules, the laws, the commentary, around which to build a lifestyle. They still would have had a culture and language and regional spoken rule like other geopolitical regions. Your question suggests that the Torah was a focus for sixth century BCE Jews, but I think he is saying there is no evidence to support that Jews as we think of them existed in the 6th century BCE, only Israelites, a few of whom may have written or compiled the Torah and other laws, which weren't adopted widely until 2nd century BCE.
@bobsmith-hd2zr
@bobsmith-hd2zr Год назад
@@gabrielspring4401 they would just be regular Canaanites
@brucetucker4847
@brucetucker4847 Год назад
I think that depends on what you are calling "religion". He is not talking about the existence of Jewish law or Jewish theology, including monotheism, he is talking about how people actually lived. He says several times that he thinks that the Torah existed before the 2nd century BCE, but there's no evidence that the practice of Judaism as it existed after that time right down to our day, as being a set of laws that all Jews observe in their everyday lives, existed prior to that time. In other words, the exclusive worship of the one God through sacrifices in the Temple at Jerusalem undoubtedly existed well before the 2nd century BCE, but that in itself does not constitute Judaism as we understand that term to mean today., even though that was the religion that eventually spawned Judaism as we know it today.
@AztlanOz
@AztlanOz Год назад
Who cares, monotheism in all it’s forms is a blight on this planet
@ta15479
@ta15479 Год назад
No, secularism is worse. They are the people who promote leftism en masse and destroy the world
@technicianbis5250
@technicianbis5250 Год назад
Belief in God has given us all freedoms that many around the world can only wish they had. This is why refugees flee to Christian based nations, why they don't flee to non Christian countries.
@technicianbis5250
@technicianbis5250 Год назад
Also why you can write crap like your comment without getting dragged away and disappearring.
@scambammer6102
@scambammer6102 Год назад
@@technicianbis5250 true, polytheism is just as bad
@Achill101
@Achill101 Год назад
@@technicianbis5250 - you claim refugees flee only to Christian nations, not non-Christian ones. Is that really so? Or do refugees flee where they can? Millions of Syrians fled to Turkey from Syrian civil war. Hundreds of thousand Burmese Muslims fled to Hinduist India from Buddhist oppression at home. Millions of Afghans fled from the Soviet invasion to Pakistan (where many of the younger ones, unfortunately, were put into Islamist madrassas and trained as Taliban, "students").
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