The Symbolism of the Book - with

Seraphim Hamilton is an Orthodox theologian who is committed to helping others understand the deep and profound ways that the inspired Scriptures bear witness- in Old and New Testaments- of Jesus Christ as the center and culmination of the human story. He received a Master of Arts in Theology and Classics from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Theology from Duke University. He posts regular Scriptural reflections five days a week at his substack and addresses a variety of subjects on his KZread channel: / kabane
Substack: seraphimhamilton.substack.com/
In this discussion with Seraphim, we talk about the book as a symbol. We discuss the Book of Life in Revelation, Scripture itself, literacy in early Christendom, the use of the codex over the scroll, the sacraments and sacred objects, memory, supplementarity, and more. Enjoy!
Timestamps:
00:00 - Coming up
00:43 - Intro music
01:09 - Introduction
01:57 - The role of the book
04:02 - Early Christianity
05:42 - Judaism
07:38 - The Tabernacle and the temple
11:26 - The codex
18:33 - The liturgy and bread
26:59 - Why the book is bitter in Revelation
30:57 - Your name in the Book of Life
37:27 - Memory
40:51 - Supplementarity
43:37 - The duality of Theophany
46:00 - Rumination
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  • @ButterBobBriggs
    @ButterBobBriggs2 күн бұрын

    I think discussions with you and Seraphim should be a regular feature of your channel, just as you and Richard Rohlin have become a featured duo. Great discussion, thank you both.

  • @esterath

    @esterath

    2 күн бұрын

    Agreed!

  • @pharobron

    @pharobron

    2 күн бұрын

    I second the agreed 💯

  • @ALLHEART_

    @ALLHEART_

    2 күн бұрын

    I concur.

  • @lazzledazzle7827

    @lazzledazzle7827

    2 күн бұрын

    Absolutely

  • @LKRaider

    @LKRaider

    2 күн бұрын

    I consent.

  • @Seraphim-Hamilton
    @Seraphim-Hamilton10 сағат бұрын

    Thanks for having me, Jonathan! Very much enjoyed this conversation.

  • @dirtpoorrobins
    @dirtpoorrobinsКүн бұрын

    Love Seraphim. So glad to see you two talking. Illuminating

  • @huntermunro5003
    @huntermunro50032 күн бұрын

    Went to see Jordan Peterson in Norfolk just so my wife and I could here Jonathan lol. Turns out we sat close to @Seraphim-Hamilton and my wife got to meet him and his family. Wonderfully nice people! You guys have done so much for my family’s journey into the Orthodox Church. Thank you both and God bless you two!

  • @christinahamilton5407

    @christinahamilton5407

    2 күн бұрын

    "wonderfully nice people" Agreed. I know them pretty well

  • @ALLHEART_

    @ALLHEART_

    2 күн бұрын

    Serro is awesome.

  • @ALLHEART_

    @ALLHEART_

    2 күн бұрын

    @@christinahamilton5407 Relatives?

  • @christinahamilton5407

    @christinahamilton5407

    2 күн бұрын

    @@ALLHEART_mom

  • @ALLHEART_

    @ALLHEART_

    6 сағат бұрын

    @@christinahamilton5407 ❤Hello Mrs. Hamilton! Your son is awesome. Love talking to him.

  • @paulr5246
    @paulr52462 күн бұрын

    My two most favorite Orthodox teachers and commentators.

  • @RomualdianHermitage

    @RomualdianHermitage

    Күн бұрын

    Take their "teachings" as a grain of salt. Your Orthodox Bishop is your real teacher.

  • @AustimosPrime
    @AustimosPrime2 күн бұрын

    Seraphim Hamilton is the man.

  • @eveningprimrose3088
    @eveningprimrose30882 күн бұрын

    I love to hear Seraphim's Hebrew/Old Testament insights. I think the connection between it and our Christian faith is profound and generally underappreciated.

  • @naikhanomtom7552
    @naikhanomtom75522 күн бұрын

    Love the fruits of conversation between you two. You should collaborate more often. Thank you both for this ❤

  • @atkkeqnfr
    @atkkeqnfrКүн бұрын

    Good talk guys. I like when you have Seraphim Hamilton on.

  • @animula6908
    @animula6908Күн бұрын

    I’m glad Jonathan has such interesting people to interact with. Edit: but my favorite episodes will always be the ones with just Jonathan explaining some obscure pattern and showing how it relates to some current events or trends.

  • @adamgoldwasser
    @adamgoldwasser2 күн бұрын

    What does Seraphim Hamilton's haircut mean from a symbolic lense?

  • @pedrogorilla483

    @pedrogorilla483

    2 күн бұрын

    It means his barber has Parkinson’s. It’s a fractal pattern of reality where beauty finds its opposite.

  • @Thunder-mullet

    @Thunder-mullet

    2 күн бұрын

    Bro looks like an angry Lego man

  • @user-ep5id4zj8s

    @user-ep5id4zj8s

    2 күн бұрын

    Lolol

  • @AlexLGagnon
    @AlexLGagnonКүн бұрын

    From studying the bible, I realized divine wisdom had to be translated out of peasant wisdom. By the sweat of our brows we eat our earthly food, by ruminating on the scripture we eat our divine food.

  • @TheMeaningCode
    @TheMeaningCode2 күн бұрын

    “When the embodiment is separated from the memory” is a perfect description of entropy.

  • @MarathonMann
    @MarathonMann2 күн бұрын

    Kabased

  • @cidklutch
    @cidklutch2 күн бұрын

    Woo! I've been waiting for another one of these

  • @mrcookiethief2128
    @mrcookiethief21282 күн бұрын

    I miss when puggy would interrupt Seraphim

  • @henrik_worst_of_sinners
    @henrik_worst_of_sinnersКүн бұрын

    Could you have Peter Johnsson the sword expert and talk about the symbology of the sword?

  • @steadfastvariation6104
    @steadfastvariation6104Күн бұрын

    Research Stan Tenen and his book The Alphabet that Changed the World! I would love Jonathan's perspective on his research.

  • @davidbusuttil9086
    @davidbusuttil90862 күн бұрын

    On the drinking of vinegar: 4 cups in Passover and the 2nd is the Cup of Wrath. at the supper Jesus says "I won't drink wine again till in my kingdom" and sure enough at his coronation the next day he is drinking that wrath, that wrath that ties the seas to blood and the death of the 1st born (both remembered in communion)

  • @cerafima1
    @cerafima12 күн бұрын

    To ruminate is likened to chewing the cud. Much love

  • @illuminaticongo
    @illuminaticongo2 күн бұрын

    You are what you eat.

  • @eveningprimrose3088
    @eveningprimrose30882 күн бұрын

    Ahhh, a refreshing rain in a hot, oppressive summer.

  • @skylarnielsentalks
    @skylarnielsentalks2 күн бұрын

    The Book of the New Sun

  • @felixwalne3494
    @felixwalne34942 күн бұрын

    This is so true! I only started reading after I became a Christian in my early twenties.

  • @jamescastro2037
    @jamescastro20372 күн бұрын

    First but not last.

  • @symbolicmeta1942

    @symbolicmeta1942

    2 күн бұрын

    2nd not first. But also not last.

  • @ActuallyHerobrine

    @ActuallyHerobrine

    2 күн бұрын

    @@symbolicmeta1942 1st is the worst. 2nd is the best. 3rd is the one with the hairy chest.

  • @Cahrub

    @Cahrub

    2 күн бұрын

    The last shall be first.

  • @pedrogorilla483

    @pedrogorilla483

    2 күн бұрын

    You’re always last if we sort by newest.

  • @MrMarccj
    @MrMarccj2 күн бұрын

    Thank God this knowledge has been kept from the pharases and the scribes.

  • @buglepong
    @buglepongКүн бұрын

    its a fine line between symbolism and schizo ramblings

  • @larrypullum9410
    @larrypullum9410Сағат бұрын

    Christ holds a book, because the certain political and religious institutions and figures of king and priest, have only arisen through millenarian judgments of the Lord, established in relation to the rise of recorded history upon the since settled agriculture and urban life coming with the Neolithic, and from the once hunting and gathering societies and then purely oral ancestral remembrances or divine myths of prehistory, created also by him in the very Paleolithic foundation of the world, cosmologically in the calendar, or that is, in the ancestral remembrances and annual valorization of all human history and culture alone, since our very dawn as a species therein. The book of Revelation is a book written within, nationally - (and as a then always certain new Nation, of itself, epically grown anew in another New World wilderness, like Rome before, or the US today, to become a then newly Universal Civilization and Empire, as well) - and on the back side, as a national region like the Bible Belt of the southeastern US today, going back to our colonial beginnings with Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Settlement - (and in the historic witness of its fulfillment therein, at such later universal heights or horizons, like John baptizing in the wilderness of Judea in immortalization of all such New World migrations, like Jacob and his sons following Joseph into Egypt, in concerns of the Hebrews ethnographically created by a later industrialization) - and sealed with seven seals, in relation to the newly urban advance also therein, out of whose assembled valorization in judgment, new kingdoms come through the certain Lordly and Apostolic creation of the Church and Scripture anew, and together, upon such historic events of each New World advance, as said; as well as upon such then once again wholly gathered culturally communistic communities like those of Acts 2, as they become the sociologically cellular or organic foundation implicit to the living God and assembled blood and body of Christ.

  • @newkingjames1757
    @newkingjames17572 күн бұрын

    o wow...

  • @Aquaticphilosophia
    @Aquaticphilosophia2 күн бұрын

    Does water have meaning? What happens if someone drinks water?!?!?

  • @MrMarccj
    @MrMarccj2 күн бұрын

    My God Jonathon, I admire your patience. This guy was obviously locked in the basement...

  • @ericedwards6276

    @ericedwards6276

    2 күн бұрын

    Seraphim is a great thinker.. shameful to slander him like that.

  • @MrMarccj

    @MrMarccj

    Күн бұрын

    @@ericedwards6276 yeah, maybe he's a great thinker and maybe I'm shameful. And maybe I'm trying to point to something important.

  • @ericedwards6276

    @ericedwards6276

    Күн бұрын

    @@MrMarccj Id be interested to know what that is

  • @MrMarccj

    @MrMarccj

    Күн бұрын

    @@ericedwards6276 Our minds are only one tool given for us to understand reality. We also have body and heart. Looking at the universe through only the mind will obviously create distortions in our understanding.