Dr Tabor is one of my favorite people to listen to because everything is so simple and easy to understand, interesting, factual yet not attacking the different faiths of individuals. Thanks doc. Looking forward to buying your Genesis translation. So far, Everett's is my fave. Reading the comments here kills me though. Most are analogous, in my view, to arguing over how many angels fit on the head of a pin.

Well, I came for a better take on Genesis, and I stayed for the treatise on all things - including why we exist! Such a gift!

It's amazing how a self-professed Atheist/Agnostic understands the Bible better than most Christian religions do! I find it ironic. You are spot on regarding the immortality of the soul that there is none. The Bible doesn't teach it yet most Christian churches do. I'm a believer in spite of religion, not because of it. Kudos, Dr. Tabor, for another captivating lecture.

I'm an athiest but am fascinated by the bible, especially the history of the document. I can only read it in English, so I appreciate this video. Thank you.

@audronesamuleviciene9918

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😅😮🎉😅😢🎉

@TheChadPad

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Psalm 53:1

@davekearney1944

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@@TheChadPad I hate to disappoint you Chad, but I'm well past getting involved in the whole insult game. I find it serves no purpose, and is very tedious. If you and your god find it helps you, please play on.

@TheChadPad

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@@davekearney1944 I am saying you are a fool, but I am not saying that I was not a fool like you at one point. I once was. We all have been. If I insult you, I insult myself in kind. Carry on truth seeker.

@davekearney1944

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@@TheChadPad Thank you...and you as well. Personally I would never, ever insult someone in regards to their choice of religion no matter what it is. It's just not my way of living my life. I am more concerned about the well-being of my fellow inhabitats of this planet than I am about their beliefs regarding religion. If that makes me a fool, I will proudly accept that designation.

I really enjoy reading Genesis. It has been something I refer to often and find more meaning in it every time I read it. Now I have to get your book for the light you are shedding about these five fundamental concepts. I like to read small bits of Genesis and just think about the meaning and how it applies to my life as a fellow human being. Kind of like spoon feeding ones self on the spiritual concepts our ancestors were trying to share with us. In reading that God created heaven and earth I thought that it gives value to both and how they are integral parts of one dynamic "force" each enhancing the other not one more important than the other. Some how I think that maybe our lives and how we value it are what help us to value our spiritual existence within the Gods creation even more.

@yolandosoquite3507

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Where is Heaven...out there in Infinite Space? Big No...Man is Created in the Image & Likeness of God..and Do you REALLY think that God look like and image of a Man?..Man actually was Taken from and Forned from the Ground . The Holy Ground..with G ..God is the Holy Ground(westerner call it earth), as all LIFE(living things) will return to the Ground ,The Holy Ground...Moses(a man) was told..take off your slipper, cuz the Ground you are standing is the Holy Ground or God itself...Cain was banished from The Ground(The Holy Ground) when Blood of Abel was received by the Ground(Holy ground).. Infinite Space cannot grow The Tree of Life nor can the River of Life flow..cuz Infinite Space do not have The Ground..Jesus said, No one(no man) has SEEN God at any point in time..Adam only opened his eyes after eating from the Tree of Knowledge, he heard only the Foot step of God.

Man this is getting depressing Professor Tabor. Tonight you made me contemplate the possibility that everything ends when we die as portrayed in Genesis. I don’t want to give up what you call this bad idea which took over the world (immortal soul).

@JamesTaborVideos

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Yes, you can see why it was not the most appealing things...but Abraham, Moses, and the Prophets, all saw their role as "on earth not in heaven..." so to speak. And out of this hard core biological "realism" arises the idea of some kind of recreation of a new enhanced being--i.e. resurrection, and that was the original Jesus movement faith...not flying away to heaven. As Paul says--and this is his view--if there is no "resurrection: from the dead--then those who have died have "perished." This is also the view in Babylon, early Egypt, even Greek--Homer. The Dualism came later...

@xifangyangren9997

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@@JamesTaborVideos I agree with the Sadducees that a truly righteous man serves God with no thought of eternal life as reward. We should do what’s right no matter what.

@Ordinal_Yoda

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Here is some Logic that can Help. First off in all things God has the Idea of. He also has the Idea of you exactly as you are. God is all powerful. For example. Picture a triangle. Then stop. And then picture the same triangle. In the same way God can think of you. And every Idea has its body. Also consider this. Since in our Law we think of God. And we are but only a thought of God. When we think of God this is like thinking a thought that thinks of yourself. And since God has thought of himself. How often can Infinity think of himself? Therefore if you are the way God thinks of himself. The thought of you is Infinite. And since the thought of you is Infinite. Also the body of the thought of you is Infinite. Therefore best thinking of God at all times. Also consider when Thomas was told put the finger in the hand and the side in Jhn 20:27. And since this one hears all things especially His Name. Just put your faith in him. =) And though James be right concerning the breath. Just remember Jesus saying. Into your hands I commit my breath. And so the Holy Spirit left. But part returned while the other part gathers the entire world. God is just that good. =)

@jdaze1

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The new covenant is the hope of restoring to mankind what Adam lost when he sinned. Eternal life. When our dead spirit rises to new life again. Those who have been regenerated by the fathers spirit never die. This was also the hope of the OT saints. As the angel told Daniel to rest until the end of days and he will stand in his lot. The OT saints were credited with eternal life at the judgement at the end. New covenant saints gain immortality in a this life. Don't be discouraged and study the bible for yourself. The holy spirit will guide you into all truth. Don't let others destroy your hope.

@phillipmorris4555

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Iakona 23 the Bible says the soul that sinneth shall die ( to be no more).

Learning so much from your videos! I will for sure get this translation of yours in my library ❤ Thanks so much for these lessons 🙌

Thanks Dr Tabor. I really appreciate the academic level of your videos rather than the more general videos which are mostly just attention grabbing titles and the presenters own ideas with no basis in literature.

Thanks Dr. Tabor. Great lecture!

I have aphantasia and rarely recollect dreams. Sleeping is very much understandable as death. And my consciousness is like.. the images are all behind a veil, but I can't see them. So it's all concepts and ideas.

Note on pronunciation: the letter 'Het is really a heavy "H" sound (and nothing like a "K"). In fact, in the history of the alphabet, the latin letter "H" is derived from "'Het".

Thank you James. You are indeed a freethinker with great knowledge :)

Thank you for the wonderful insights.

I read from Genesis in church the other day, and in Tabor’s honor, I emphasized how God thought his creation was GOOD!

@dadedowuh

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You do better

@jonathanbarnes3061

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Very good!

@xifangyangren9997

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@@sso1834 Of course God loves bacteria and viruses, slugs and cockroaches. What’s nasty to us is beautiful to God.

@dadedowuh

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@@sso1834 your not being helpful

@chibibeetle

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@@dadedowuh he's not a god, he can't, he doesn't have magic powers🤷‍♀️ but he has something gods don't have: empathy

That was gold. Thank you.

Very well spoken. Job 14 speaks of Gods yearning to give life again. Peace

Thank you so much, James. Love your work

Excellent teaching!!!!

The chay nephesh is the conjunction of breath, living wind, and the body of dust. The motive force of polarities (look into how cellular respiration works, correlate to the macroscopic effect of breathing in terms of positive and negative pressure), call it energy for a comparison to this technology we use now in the imitation, flowing through the complexly designed hardware to produce the /chay nephesh/. The living creature, the breathing body, bestowed with consciousness, with software that we call soul. We don't have souls, we /are/ souls.

Dr. T’habites you confirm many of my theories when we confront death of our beloved…ones…thank you

Highly interesting, thank you. Xxx

Tabor brings light to the gift of light.

You're speaking what I was raised for so long knowing and talking about. Sola Scriptura, let the language speak for it as it spoke for them.

This was excellent.

So much Wisdom!

Dr, what kabbalistic exegesis do you think is “historically legitimate”? Do you think there is something to the 32 used of Elohim to describe something beyond surface level? Even these concepts of justness and judgment, I can’t help but see the opposing sephiroth of gevurah and chesed although, that idea has already been planted there. Also this is a great video I’m learning lots from. You know so much. One day when I have spare cash I’ll definitely take your Mark course. Thank you!

I am really enjoying this. I particularly like your teaching regard the pronunciation of YHVH, which is believe was: Yeh ‘he will be’ Ho (ho veh) ‘he is’ Hi Ya ‘he was’ Do you think Rev 1:4 which talks if God almighty as The’ one who is and the one who was and the one who is coming’ is a Greek rendition (for want of a better description) of YHVH? It would be great full to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Why did you choose to translate asher as who? Is who a typical usage? I really enjoy your lectures and especially your sensitivity.

That last segment I wholly agree. Apathy and nonchalance are not favorable characteristics. Reminds me of the word in Revelations "lukewarm."

In the age of 'fiber optics' we can 'see' that the caterpillar inside the cocoon 'dissolves' into amino acids which are then re-organized into the butterfly!

How does one get a transcript of this presentation please?

@valetta202

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It's on this video "show transcript"

I suspect that the deep, the waters there at the beginning that the spirit hovered over is the energy Einstein spoke of. This energy was shaped into everything.

Elohim created the *skies and the land* I would give this video a 👍 just for translating skies and land as written. The text has more internal consistency that way, too. Skies and land …. And waters (were already existing)

Thank you. Question: why did you in Gen 1:2 decide to leave the theological “spirit” as a translation of “ruach” instead of what it actually means - the wind, breath (which is actually pretty close to Orphic creation story) ?

@scienceexplains302

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It means all of those together. 1Samuel 16:14 is one verse where Breath or Wind wouldn’t make sense. I would not translate _ruach,_ since there is no equivalent in modern languages that I am aware of.

@epicofatrahasis3775

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It's actually closer to the Enuma Elish and other Mesopotamian creation myths as shown below. Especially Professor Christine Hayes, lecture 3 below. *The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"*

@epicofatrahasis3775

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@Science Explains It is actually wind. Refer to lecture 3 below. It is drawing upon the Mesopotamian creation myth where Marduk defeats Tiamat with his wind. Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes.

@scienceexplains302

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@@epicofatrahasis3775 Look at Psalm 51:10-12. Ruach is used 3 times there. It cannot possibly mean simply Wind there. Christina Hayes is great, but if she said ruach just means wind, she is just wrong on that point

@epicofatrahasis3775

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@Science Explains With all due respect, you are not a Hebrew Bible scholar. She lectures at a reputable university. Only later did it come to mean something different than wind. The reason it refers to wind is because they are alluding to the *older* Mesopotamian creation myth where Marduk defeats Tiamat with his wind. The Israelites were borrowing from and modifying myths from the ANE such as with the Genesis story. Listen between the relevant timestamps in lecture 3 where she explains this. Lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes.

I think of the name Yehshua as making sense as meaning: 'I Am Salvation, Deliverance'. Mashiach, to be anointed, specifically for a sacred purpose, chosen. Thus: 'I Am [the] Chosen Salvation'. Shiloh, 'Tranquility'. Michael, 'Who is like [the] Power?', the Archon must be the Chief of chiefs, the King of kings, the firstborn Word was Light, the theophany before Abraham, Moshe, and Yehoshua who claimed the Name and Set Apart ground. So many others. Ishvah, Yishuah, is so interesting. Iesous, Iesua in Greek, but with an epsilon instead of an eta. 'He Will Level, Make Even'. All these concepts, so fundamental to Existence, but there is a Set Apart Being.

I heard Shaddai was related to the Semitic word for mountain. Making "El Shaddai" = "God of the mountain" (volcano god who destroys cities with fire and brimstone)

Isn't a verb in English with "will" considered future tense? The imperfect tense is used for an uncompleted past action.

There are some people who are soulless, and there are some people who aren't soulless, but believe they are. Fascinating.

I thought this translation was the easiest to read. It felt so real.

Adon in an even deeper sense means 'master'. The Master of masters.

So what happens when you die and wher does your breath go well into the wind so what does David says about eternal life in psalms 17:14-15

There is the allverse. The firewater (Shamayim, where the Power dwells) beyond and the universe which is a curtain between that and the deep. That's how I read it after just directly translating things.

After my out of body experience, ayahuasca.....I believe that there is more than our body 😊 Love your teachings!

The Name Beyond Name, The Way, Pure-Being, Right-Doing, Right-Judgement all sound like the common English translations of concepts of Taoism and Buddhism. I wonder if there is a common Iron Age thread of High Gods vs Metropolitan / Location Gods?

Love you James but how well do you know Sumerian???

@johnmichaelson9173

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I'm thinking the answer is "not as much as Irving Finkel" who is personally one of my all time heroes. Even if "The Ark Before Noah" was his only achievement he'd be a genius. The work he's done at the British Museum is simply wonderful.

@pastorwilliamhay1687

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@@johnmichaelson9173 exactly

I'm under the impression that in Genesis the notion of God was pretty vague, much like the Japanese concept of Kami.

Is the RSV translated from the Hebrew or Greek?

Life is continuous you want the answer well its in the wind.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Consider the curtain that separates the Self-Existent Power of Powers from us physically, all that black void studded with stars (consider the tabernacle). That's what the curtain represented spiritually between the set apart from the set apart of set apart, to us so thick, so easily torn. So thick to a man, to thin to the Most High.

Comment for Dr Tabor. @17:26, you start to talk about Genesis 1:1 where your interpretation is, “At the first of ELOHIM creating the skies and the land - and the land was desolation and emptiness; and darkness was over the face of the deep”. My comment is about the Hebrew word interpreted for “creating” - בּרא (bârâ') which all scriptures interpret to mean 'created'. It also means 'cut' or 'cut down' as in Joshua 17:15,18. This new interpretation matches the second verse: " and the land was desolation and emptiness; and darkness was over the face of the deep”. Putting it together, “At the first of ELOHIM cut down (made desolate) the skies and the land - and the land was desolation and emptiness; and darkness was over the face of the deep”.

What about Kaf hakela in 1 Samuel 25:29

Dr Tabor, how did you determine that Elohim refers to a single entity rather than a pantheon with El Elyon at the head? (Great presentation, by the way 👍)

@Ordinal_Yoda

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Very good! The world should know the Hebrew Root (אֵלֶּה) [Elleh] means "These". Thus when plural means "All of These". Therefore any claiming Allah as God is guilty of Idolatry. And should repent and be proper in the word Allahim.

@epicofatrahasis3775

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Good question. It can be used as both singular and plural and derives from the Canaanite god El and his pantheon called the Elohim. In the Old Testament, Ba’al is associated with the Canaanites. And he is described as the focus of their religious worship in those stories-while El is described as being another name for Yahweh, the Hebrew patron god. *In reality, however, based on the discoveries at Ugarit (the land called Canaan in the Bible), El is clearly the father of the gods in much the same way that Zeus is the head of the gods on Olympus in Greek mythology.* ***And Yahweh is not another name for El, but a separate deity.*** Like Zeus, El headed a pantheon. He was not only the father of mankind, but the leader of the Ugarit gods. *His pantheon, in Ugarit, is called the* ***Elohim*** *(literally, the plural of El).* *"The Atheist Experience™: Ugarit and the Bible"*

@Ordinal_Yoda

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@@epicofatrahasis3775 Shem lived in the Land of Canaan all the up until the days of Jacob and Esau. El represents the Lord. El also holds the definition "Unto" such as Ele holds the definition "These". And Elohim holds the definition "All of These". Such is true for the Name Am. In the name of the Lord Is (Who they translate as Jesus).

@epicofatrahasis3775

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@Jeff Creighton According to the general consensus of scholarship (even critical Christian scholars), YHWH was originally incorporated into the Canaanite pantheon as a son of the Canaanite high god El before inheriting the top spot in the pantheon and El's wife Athirat (Asherah) before religious reforms. If you want to see if El is fictional, just read his mythology in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts. "I should add here that it is very clear from the grammar that the noun nachalah in v. 9 should be translated “inheritance.” *Yahweh receives Israel as his “inheritance” (nachalah), just as the other sons of El received their nations as their inheritance (nachal, v. 8).* With this verb, especially in the Hiphil, the object is always what is being given as an inheritance. Thus, Israel is given to Yahweh as his inheritance. ((Here I’m indebted to Dan McClellan.)) It would make no sense for Elyon to give himself an inheritance. Moreover, as I’ve argued elsewhere, it is not just the Gentile nations that are divided up according to the number of the sons of El. It is all of humankind, i.e., “the sons of Adam.” This clearly includes Israel. And the sons of Adam are not divided up according to the number of the sons of El, plus one (i.e., plus Elyon). They are divided up, according to the text, solely according to the number of the sons of El. *Thus, that Yahweh receives Israel as his inheritance makes Yahweh one of the sons of El mentioned in v. 8. Any other construal of the text would constitute its rewriting."* *"The Most Heiser: Yahweh and Elyon in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 - Religion at the Margins"* based on the *majority scholarly consensus.* (Written by Thom Stark who is a Christian) *"Michael Heiser: A Unique Species? - Religion at the Margins"* (A second response to Michael Heiser) *"Excerpt from “Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan” by John Day - Lehi's Library."* *"The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10 - TheTorah.com"* (Excluding the short narrative on Nimrod (vv. 8-12), which appears to be a later addition, Genesis 10 contains *70* names of nations or cities, a number that was symbolic of totality. Similarly, the descendants of Jacob were *70* in number (Gen 46:37; Exod 1:5), *as were the sons of the supreme Canaanite god El, with whom YHWH became equated.)* *"Mark Smith: Yahweh as El’s Son & Yahweh’s Ascendency - Lehi's Library"* (Mark Smith is a Catholic) *"02 | December | 2009 | Daniel O. McClellan - Psalm 82"* (Daniel McClellan is a Mormon) *"God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost."* (Pay attention to whose wife Asherah (Athirat) is in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts and how she became the wife of YHWH/Yahweh) *"Yahweh's Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden - Mythology Matters."* *"Married Deities: Asherah and Yahweh in Early Israelite Religion - Yahweh Elohim."* *"Asherah, God's Wife in Ancient Israel. Part IV - theyellowdart"* *"The Gates of Ishtar - El, was the original god of the bible."* *"The Gates of Ishtar - Anath in the Elephantine Papyri"* (It appears in addition to Asherah (Athirat) being the consort of Yahweh it also appears some Israelites also viewed the Canaanite goddess Anat(h) as Yahweh's consort) *"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopedia"* (Refer to the section "Relationship to Biblical Religion") *"The Syncretization of Yahweh and El : reddit/AcademicBiblical"* (For a good summary of all of the above articles) Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards. Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on. Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40. Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"* (By a former theist) Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.

@Ordinal_Yoda

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@@epicofatrahasis3775 v.8 and v.9 of what?

Property rights. Gotta have a god that defends property rights. Funny how "God" or "I am what I am" is always a supreme capitalist. Anyway, very interesting talk. Thanks for sharing it here.

Could it be that God talked to whoever was commanded to write the Torah, in a manner that the writer would understand in his time. Just as God refer to some people with some kind of diseases "unclean " and must be separated. Whereas with our understanding today, He may have called those people possible carrier of infectious diseases that they need to be quarantined. I think originally names were given as description, people are named based on their character, the nature of their birth, or events associated with their birth. It's how Leah named her children.

"of which there is a soul with in"

Listen to Dr tabor he is 100% right!!!!!!!!

Or "El Shaddai" - The One Sufficient Breast... in contrast to 'Artemis - of the Ephesians' - The many breasted one...

The three men are Aner,Eschol and Mamre

29:15. So you don't think James was the English form of the Hebrew name Chaim?

I find it fascinating, the link between Shem, shemen (oil), the bestowal of anointed Wisdom through a sacred composition of resins and oil-rich plants in oil, and how that all seems highly representative of something. Name, oil, how we call now what they used to call the oil of plants, very highly related to a fundamentally Sacred Name. Many implications to the idea of Set Apart Wisdom being the concept at work in these complex medicinal, purifying, and cognitively impactful flora and the rest of life in general. Numbers 27:16 KJVS Let the LORD [YHWH, Hayah, Ehyeh, Hawah - Exist, I Am, Being/Life/Breath], the God [Elohim, Powers, Mighty Ones] of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, Jeremiah 32:27 KJVS Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?

When analyzing the Bible should one not be exceedingly careful about isolationism? Context and intent are two conditions that appear to be very critical to Elohim. Without them, the text presented appears as if there are many contradictions when in actuality there aren't any. In other words, Elohim says many things in the Bible which are never contradictive when the “context” in which it was said is understood.

Hello darkness my old friend.

The truth is very disturbing for many

Would you address "the Magi" and Zoroastrian influence on Jesus movement?

Life after life

To Breathe, to cause to BE, in the sense of Existence.... Havah H1933-34 vs hovah H1943

In Reference To - what happens when you die... Look @ the account of some 'believers' at the 2nd Resurrection event... seeing tables and volumes (The Lamb's Book of the Living) and people being cast into the Lake of Fire/Destruction... they fall upon one saying things like... "Didn't we do 'this thing' in your name... didn't we do 'that thing' in your name..." And they well be told, "Depart from me, Workers of Iniquity... I did not 'authorize you to do those things'...". And they were taken and cast into the Lake... (Doesn't sound like they were in Heaven having a Party prior to this...)

We live after death in our loved one's memories, how much more are do we live in in God's memories if we know him and God can do anything with those memories of us hence being in eternity of god.

Think of your dreams for a second. Sometimes you can fly in one dream and maybe move objects around in another, etc. In each dream that you can remember, most of the time, it's a different stage. Different characters or modified versions of the same characters, including what you take yourself to be in each dream. When you wake up and you're back in reality, it can be said that the characters in your dream are no more. Neither is the character you were in the dream - it is no more. But the feeling of you that was in the dream remains here in reality: that is awake and is trying to remember - until the dream fades from memory. The feeling of you isn't this body, nor is it any other body you inhabited in any of your dreams. So the force of all forces resides in us but it is not us. The individual is an aspect of the highest force that resides within. It can't be named because it's name changes depending on which aspect it is embodying (or character it happens to be) . It's formless because it's form always changes depending on which aspect it's embodying (or character it happens to be) So.... What happens to the individual when it dies? It is no more. Like a dream character. But the force of all forces which animates (which we call God or the Most High God) wakes up (or is born again) into a new reality (heaven and earth) and resides in a completely new individual that grows from child to adult. Just like when you go to sleep and dream a different dream than the night before. This is my take on what the creation story in Genesis is alluding to. It's essentially reincarnation except the human being isn't reincarnated. God is. This reality seems to be how God becomes self aware. Or said differently, how the dream character becomes lucid without the dream ending abruptly as it often does when one realizes that they're dreaming.

At 47:30, when discussing what it would be like for a resurrection, you are correct. It is like going to sleep one night and waking up the next second, no concept of time or how long you have been gone. Some will regress, some will advance or ascend to greater dimensions or levels of consciousness. How I know, and why I believe in the resurrected Christ who was and is the Gate for those who are lost and wander the earth aimlessly, is that it happened to be a young man I knew once. I AM a 1st hand eyewitness to his physical death. Not trying to decipher what someone else wrote 2500 years ago. In short, I cannot do justice for an explanation here, but that Yeshua said in the book of John, "He who lives by believing in me shall never die, even though he may die, yet shall they live." He still walks among us today proclaiming the good news of the Gospel and the kingdom of heaven that is now, that is accessible through the true Gate, and the kingdom that is to come. I am trying to write a book about it, kind of like the book of Enoch. But it is hard to put that kind of thing into human words.

We are all just beings in god, hence the whole point, the more we act in the righteous of god ,the more memories and the more we be in god after death and death is defeated.

I’m no scholar, but began looking into the history of the Bible when I was arguing with people who believe in a flat earth, and base their belief on The Bible. My first realizations came when I began to see the influences of other cultures and civilizations on Judaism, especially the Babylonians. One of the things I found in my readings was the influence of the Canaanites. From what I read the Hebrews lived in Canaan before the Exodus and archaeology shows that they worshipped the Canaanite god El. Now listening to you talk, Dr. Tabor, I wonder about that connection, whether it’s true and if that’s what eventually developed into YHWH? Also I’m wondering if Hebrews were originally Canaanites that developed a different religion?

@scienceexplains302

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You’re going to take another leap in understanding soon. You’ll have to abandon the idea that a god is a single consistent concept, in case that is what you think now. Even today with worldwide communication, the concepts of a monotheist god are very different. In 1200 BCE, you might get a few different answers in every town if you asked people to describe Yahweh. The spelling and concept of Yahweh changed over time and geography.

@epicofatrahasis3775

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You are correct. References below. According to the general consensus of scholarship (even critical Christian scholars), YHWH was originally incorporated into the Canaanite pantheon as a son of the Canaanite high god El before inheriting the top spot in the pantheon and El's wife Athirat (Asherah) before religious reforms. If you want to see if El is fictional, just read his mythology in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts. "I should add here that it is very clear from the grammar that the noun nachalah in v. 9 should be translated “inheritance.” *Yahweh receives Israel as his “inheritance” (nachalah), just as the other sons of El received their nations as their inheritance (nachal, v. 8).* With this verb, especially in the Hiphil, the object is always what is being given as an inheritance. Thus, Israel is given to Yahweh as his inheritance. ((Here I’m indebted to Dan McClellan.)) It would make no sense for Elyon to give himself an inheritance. Moreover, as I’ve argued elsewhere, it is not just the Gentile nations that are divided up according to the number of the sons of El. It is all of humankind, i.e., “the sons of Adam.” This clearly includes Israel. And the sons of Adam are not divided up according to the number of the sons of El, plus one (i.e., plus Elyon). They are divided up, according to the text, solely according to the number of the sons of El. *Thus, that Yahweh receives Israel as his inheritance makes Yahweh one of the sons of El mentioned in v. 8. Any other construal of the text would constitute its rewriting."* *"The Most Heiser: Yahweh and Elyon in Psalm 82 and Deuteronomy 32 - Religion at the Margins"* based on the *majority scholarly consensus.* (Written by Thom Stark who is a Christian) *"Michael Heiser: A Unique Species? - Religion at the Margins"* (A second response to Michael Heiser) *"Excerpt from “Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan” by John Day - Lehi's Library."* *"The Table of Nations: The Geography of the World in Genesis 10 - TheTorah.com"* (Excluding the short narrative on Nimrod (vv. 8-12), which appears to be a later addition, Genesis 10 contains *70* names of nations or cities, a number that was symbolic of totality. Similarly, the descendants of Jacob were *70* in number (Gen 46:37; Exod 1:5), *as were the sons of the supreme Canaanite god El, with whom YHWH became equated.)* *"Mark Smith: Yahweh as El’s Son & Yahweh’s Ascendency - Lehi's Library"* (Mark Smith is a Catholic) *"02 | December | 2009 | Daniel O. McClellan - Psalm 82"* (Daniel McClellan is a Mormon) *"God's Wife Edited Out of the Bible - Almost."* (Pay attention to whose wife Asherah (Athirat) is in the Ugaritic/Canaanite texts and how she became the wife of YHWH/Yahweh) *"Yahweh's Divorce from the Goddess Asherah in the Garden of Eden - Mythology Matters."* *"Married Deities: Asherah and Yahweh in Early Israelite Religion - Yahweh Elohim."* *"Asherah, God's Wife in Ancient Israel. Part IV - theyellowdart"* *"The Gates of Ishtar - El, was the original god of the bible."* *"The Gates of Ishtar - Anath in the Elephantine Papyri"* (It appears in addition to Asherah (Athirat) being the consort of Yahweh it also appears some Israelites also viewed the Canaanite goddess Anat(h) as Yahweh's consort) *"Canaanite Religion - New World Encyclopedia"* (Refer to the section "Relationship to Biblical Religion") *"The Syncretization of Yahweh and El : reddit/AcademicBiblical"* (For a good summary of all of the above articles) Watch Professor Christine Hayes who lectures on the Hebrew Bible at Yale University. Watch lecture 2 from 40:40 to 41:50 minutes, lecture 7 from 30:00 minutes onwards, lecture 8 from 12:00 to 17:30 minutes and lecture 12 from 27:40 minutes onwards. Watch *"Pagan Origins of Judaism"* by Sigalius Myricantur and read the description in the video to see the scholarship the video is based on. Watch *"How Monotheism Evolved"* by Sigalius Myricantur and watch up to at least 21:40. Watch *"Atheism - A History of God (The Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)"* (By a former theist) Watch *"The Origins of Yahweh"* by Derreck Bennett at Atheologica.

@fordprefect5304

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*Hebrews lived in Canaan before the Exodus* The Hebrews were Canaanites and they lived in the hills of Canaan. There was no Exodus Referring to the hills of Canaan Dr William Dever: "We know today, from archeological investigation, that there were more than 300 early villages of the 13th and 12th century in the area. I call these "proto-Israelite villages". *This has been verified by archeologists* i.e. Mazur, Na'aman, Finkelstein, Faust and Dever Dr William Dever, an archaeologist normally associated with the more conservative end of Syro-Palestinian archaeology, has labeled the question of the historicity of Exodus “dead”. Israeli archaeologist Ze’ev Herzog provides his view on the historicity of the Exodus:[7] *The Israelites never were in Egypt. They never came from abroad. This whole chain is broken. It is not a historical one. It is a later legendary reconstruction - made in the seventh century [BCE] - of a history that never happened* Verifying Dr Dever is the Merneptah Stele Merneptah stele 1207BCE The Egyptian army rolls through Canaan and the only Israelites they encounter are some people in the highlands that they scatter. No Israelite city states or cities. No great Israelite army to stop them. Just a people the Egyptians called Israel.

@scienceexplains302

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@@fordprefect5304 thanks. Richard Friedman makes a good case for a small band of what we now call Levites having left (released from?) Egypt and bringing Yahwehism to the Hebrew Canaanites (my wording). Part of the argument is that there were no Levites in Judges 5, the earliest-written tribe list. And when there are Levites, they have a special, priestly classification. I am not representing his whole argument here.

@fordprefect5304

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@@scienceexplains302 *Yahwehism to the Hebrew Canaanites* Possible but Yahweh was a Canaanite god the god of war/storms. Depending on who you want to believe. Most of the bible was written in the 6th century which means they would have remembered it from the 12th century. I am not a scholar so maybe. From the "BigThink" One god among many Yahweh worship also has its roots in an ancient religion of Canaan, the land which God promised to Abraham. Within this polytheistic religion, Yahweh was but one of many deities united under a figure known as El. In the northwestern Semitic language spoken in Canaan, “El” had multiple meanings: It was the word for “god,” the name of a specific god, and the title of a god who stood removed from other, lesser gods. There are so many different explanations, which one do you believe. "rhetorical question"

James 15 any tora.

Don't forget that oblivion means forgetfulness. I think of the outer dark and the gnashing of teeth upon facing what non-existence will be. The effects of the punishment are eternal, the judgment and execution, not the punishment itself. That would be cruel and unusual.

@donnakeizer1468

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He makes everything so complicated, could a child understand this. Higher critics,

@entelechy777

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@@donnakeizer1468 Easily, if worded properly. I've understood all of these ideas since childhood. I'm just understanding them /more/.

The dead neither hear, nor see, nor know a thing. The whole "sleeping in the dust" referred to as a kind of "soul-sleep." I have to ask whether or not the 'yod' and the 'heyh' in 'chayah' implies that Yahweh is the source of life.

Saint David’s Anglican church 1858 ancient chieftain. This was repealed before the creation of Canada by King George.

*Exodus 3:14 Nobody ever owned me* “I will be what I will be.” (“I am who I am.”) Are most people analyzing 3:14 out of context? In 3:13, Moses had asked Ha Elohim what he (Moses) should say if the sons of Israel ask the name of the god of their fathers. A name is not just a random label in the Tanakh. It indicates the character and/or distinguishing action of the person. The father usually gives the name. Elohim had no father. So Elohim replies in 3:14 “I will be what I will be,” ie. “Nobody named and limited me.” If Samuel Jackson were playing Elohim, it would be “My name is Kiss My Ass, m…f…s. Nobody told me what to be.” Thus the idea of not speaking Elohim’s name has a little more basis in scripture (elsewhere it there is evidence against not saying Yahweh), since to some it implies that the god(s) had a parent.

Two Gardens and a Snake by Israel Anderson on KZread

I just watched the whole thing. Kudos to you. You care. Re - legion? Didn't JC cast legions of demon into swine that drowned themselves.. I don't think so good :( *really impressive, your fine on your own.

why not 'earth' rather than soil, though?

I've read the Bible cover to cover as a Believer. However, it does not make sense and contradicts itself over and over and is Impossible to follow all the words of this book. It's honestly a headF* if you do. ......yet I still Believe.

GOOD STUFF

Genesis is a edited version of ANCIENT SUMERIAN!

@epicofatrahasis3775

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Absolutely. *The Enuma Elish would later be the inspiration for the Hebrew scribes who created the text now known as the biblical Book of Genesis.* Prior to the 19th century CE, the Bible was considered the oldest book in the world and its narratives were thought to be completely original. In the mid-19th century CE, however, European museums, as well as academic and religious institutions, sponsored excavations in Mesopotamia to find physical evidence for historical corroboration of the stories in the Bible. ***These excavations found quite the opposite, however, in that, once cuneiform was translated, it was understood that a number of biblical narratives were Mesopotamian in origin.*** *Famous stories such as the Fall of Man and the Great Flood were originally conceived and written down in Sumer,* translated and modified later in Babylon, and reworked by the Assyrians ***before they were used by the Hebrew scribes for the versions which appear in the Bible.*** ***In revising the Mesopotamian creation story for their own ends, the Hebrew scribes tightened the narrative and the focus but retained the concept of the all-powerful deity who brings order from chaos.*** Marduk, in the Enuma Elish, establishes the recognizable order of the world - *just as God does in the Genesis tale* - and human beings are expected to recognize this great gift and honor the deity through service. *"Enuma Elish - The Babylonian Epic of Creation - Full Text - World History Encyclopedia"* *"Sumerian Civilization: Inventing the Future - World History Encyclopedia"* *"The Myth of Adapa - World History Encyclopedia"* Also discussed by Professor Christine Hayes at Yale University in her 1st lecture of the series on the Hebrew Bible from 8:50 to 14:30 minutes, lecture 3 from 28:30 to 41:35 minutes, lecture 4 from 0:00 up to 21:30 minutes and 24:00 up to 35:30 minutes and lecture 7 from 24:20 to 25:10 minutes. From a Biblical scholar: "Many stories in the ancient world have their origins in other stories and were borrowed and modified from other or earlier peoples. *For instance, many of the stories now preserved in the Bible are* ***modified*** *versions of stories that existed in the cultures and traditions of Israel’s* ***older*** *contemporaries.* Stories about the creation of the universe, a cataclysmic universal flood, digging wells as land markers, the naming of important cultic sites, gods giving laws to their people, and even stories about gods decreeing the possession of land to their people were all part of the cultural and literary matrix of the ancient Near East. *Biblical scribes freely* ***adopted and modified*** *these stories as a means to express their own identity, origins, and customs."* *"Stories from the Bible"* by Dr Steven DiMattei, from his website *"Biblical Contradictions"*

@jdaze1

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Actually the pagan world empires took the truth of God and perverted it. You got it backwards.

@pastorwilliamhay1687

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@@jdaze1 ya? The Bible was written in 600 BC. How did the Pagan's writings 4000 BC have it twisted?

@fushumang1716

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you wish

@pastorwilliamhay1687

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@@fushumang1716 and Abram was a Chaldean from Ur right?

according to Rebbe's and Rabbi's' who believe in the messiah 72 concepts

Maybe they said the "five great mad hatters " like from mercury over dose, lead plates and tomato's.. it's all Greek to me

You are protected NOTHING will ever happen to you 💛

@allenhodge7245

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Eternal life for free ✨️

I don’t know about that law. When we were in Israel there a quite a few Christian Jews and orthodox sects that have been there for years including messianic Jews. So what will that mean for those Christian’s that take tours to the go,y land. I know some Christian Jews that have been there for years ministering. God bless you❤

Very interesting starting at 26 which is the numerical value of the tetragrammaton. With all due respect I'm not a fan of vav or hovah ruin calamity. I found wah in the phonetics of the names in the bible. Is there not more examples of Wah rather than the Vav? As for the iam that Iam hyh esher hyh the numerous variations past present future tenses times 3 you know what I'm trying to say? Iam is not a good transliteration of I was I will I am I will be then there's esher so many variations.

@HenryK153

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Seems to me that the Names all based upon the relationship one had has or will have. Nobody in the Gospels that followed Yeshua YahuSHuWa ( not YAHOSHVAH notice the shin holy Spirit letter there falling in-between the Tetra....?) Anyways those that followed Messiah didn't call Him Jesus Yeshua etc they called Him a personal name. Just saying it's all about a personal relationship YHWH reaching out to man.

@HenryK153

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I'm new here so I apologize if bothering you. I'm new to social skills and platforms. Shalom Aleikhem

So sorry you omitted Genesis 1:29-30

To everyone out there: Tonight is the Memorial Service at the Kingdom Halls of the Jehovah’s Witness. It starts at 8:00 at all of the Kingdom Halls and everyone is invited, so bring a couple of friends and then it explains at the meeting why Jesus Christ came to the Earth to die for mankind. It lasts only about an hour, at all of the Jehovah’s Witness’s Kingdom Halls all over the earth. Because in the book of Luke chapter 22:19 Jesus said to “keep doing this in remembrance of me” 4/4/2023

Wills is luke was 17q

Very interesting: as far as I know Genesis doesn't even mention the name of Moses. Today's 5 books were not written by Moses as most Xtians claim

@cmdb582

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it's not just christian's. orthodox/observant/traditional jews hold the same view. I for one think it's entirely possible Moses did write down the Torah, but also think it's entirely possible that during diasporas or other events, some of it got lost, divided up etc, resulting in someone else doing their best to restore it.

18:52 mate the ancient Hebrews believed the earth was flat and there was a firement(literally sheet) above them seperating heaven(literally the skies of the skies) wherein was the special dwelling place of YHWH and earth. 42:57 no bro sheol is an actual underworld where the dead go,if you understood biblical cosmology you would know that,Moshe once opened a hole to sheol in one of his miracles.I suggest you see Jeff a Benners videos on the matter.

The foundation of the conceptual things is seen in the second day, where, after there was light, and the waters were spread apart like a scroll, we had heaven between, and Paradise, because it is the place between the "rivers", and it is the truth, being the invisible part between the waters, or the words. So, like the waters water the trees, the greater plants that were in Paradise, so the truth is seen between the heavenly and earthly relation with the words. The mighty ones, the gods, are those things living in the heavens, which is why they are depicted as birds. So also, learning from them is eating the fruit from the respective tree, or what it produces. In the center of Paradise is God's tree, and Paul relates that to the Law, saying, "I was once alive apart from the Law, but when the command to not covet came, sin revived and I died". The death that he dies here is to the Law in the flesh. He must be justified in the Spirit, or else he is doomed to go the way of all flesh. So, if someone TRULY gets why they have been justified (and not speaking in tongues, describing human blood sacrifices and misdirected vengeance and all of that without understanding), then I would say that they will see that they are truly justified. When they understand that God is the god of the living, and, being the initiation of all being, is Himself the Life, and is the god of the living, then what I've said should actually make a bit more sense to them. Until that time, however, I will continue to be called a deceiver, someone who tells other people to sin, ignorant of the scriptures, and even actually insane.

What god created in his memories he made skins.

The woman is a standing joke not an insult

The Spinoza God seems correct.. After viewing your videos .2 nd..i believe you could or would of made a lot of money if you became those leaders on TV preaching..seems you translate the scrips a whole lot better..

King James and STRONGS exhaustive concordance, DOnt make it so complicated. The. Bible is for everyone. The three world ages,

I don't see the modern theory of the big bang and large scale evolution (single celled organisms evolving into not only man, but 2 genders, man and woman) being compatible with the Christian/Hebrew worldview. My advice is do not be afraid of abandoning which of these ideas are the least logical. Remember the Copernican idea is ultimately a philosophical belief system which comes from the idea of Man being insignificant.