Why Josephus Matters

The Jewish Roman historian and military commander Flavius Josephus was a prolific author, who wrote accounts of the First Roman-Jewish War alongside a larger history of Judaism. Born Yosef Ben Matityahu in the Roman province of Judea at Jerusalem, he was initially a general in the Jewish revolt before switching sides and serving the Roman military commander Vespasian. Yosef claimed that Jewish messianic prophecies predicted that Vespasian would become Emperor. And when Vespasian seized the throne, he patronized Yosef who took the name Flavius Josephus (after Vespasian’s clan name). Josephus is our single most important source for the history of Judea in the First Century AD (the time of Jesus), but his own bias and agenda require his works to be read with care. John Hamer of Toronto Centre Place will review Josephus’ works and will highlight some of the most important takeaways.
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  • @_pawter
    @_pawter8 ай бұрын

    Once again an excellent lecture that builds a coherent picture from all the disparate bits and pieces I had already. I'm glad you have such a large back-catalogue of lectures for me to plunder when I can spare 2 hour blocks of time. The pastor of my church used to be a high school history teacher and can read ancient Greek, so I hope to share with him the best bits: he has 3 small children, a burgeoning congregation, and little spare time.

  • @pwal6773

    @pwal6773

    3 ай бұрын

    Watch at 1.5 playback speed and you'll only need to spare about 80-90 minutes.

  • @Nexthendrix2112
    @Nexthendrix2112 Жыл бұрын

    I named my dog Josephus, and I took him to training where he almost fought with another dog named Titus… what are the chances?

  • @KenJackson_US

    @KenJackson_US

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't you feel silly yelling _"Josephus!"_ out your front door to retrieve him?

  • @Nexthendrix2112

    @Nexthendrix2112

    Жыл бұрын

    @@KenJackson_US nope not at all

  • @geridayao8924
    @geridayao8924 Жыл бұрын

    Who do they often neglect to point out that he was also a pharisee?

  • @garyschneider6644
    @garyschneider6644 Жыл бұрын

    This series is a wonderful find. I will be listening to other of John’s lectures.

  • @mohinfahim7280

    @mohinfahim7280

    9 ай бұрын

    A group of Jews are directly mentioned in the Samaritans' Book of Asatir, And after the death of Abraham, Ishmael reigned twenty seven years. And all the children of Nebaot [Ishmael's son] ruled for one year in the lifetime of Ishmael, And for thirty years after his death from the river of Egypt to the river Euphrates; and they built Mecca.” [The Asatir - The Samaritan Book of The “Secret of Moses; Gaster, Moses (1927). VIII, page 262] That is, the descendants of Ishmael (a.s.) began to rule during his lifetime. They built the city of Makkah. In that book, the famous Jewish historian Josephus (37 AD-100 AD) is quoted as saying: Josephus I. 12. 3. 221: "These inhabited all the countries from the Euphrates to the Red Sea, and called it Nabatene." Gen. 25. 18. Pal.Targ.: "And they dwelled from Hindikia (Indian Ocean) to Palusa (Pelusiumt which is before Egypt as thou goest to Atur (Assyria). In Kebra Ch. 83: many countries are enumerated over which Ishmael ruled "Built Mecca." That is, according to Josephus, the Ishmaelites built Mecca.

  • @johnydevassia
    @johnydevassia Жыл бұрын

    Congratulations for the deepest study and the subtle presentation

  • @michaelcannon3370
    @michaelcannon3370 Жыл бұрын

    thumbs up for the bolo tie lol. he has filled in gaps of info that I had wondered about but didn't know where to look or start. great resource I'll follow him

  • @cae02
    @cae02 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Appreciate all the hard work putting these together, presenting and publishing. Keep ‘em coming!!! (p.s. Miss the live audience)

  • @tabularasa0606
    @tabularasa0606 Жыл бұрын

    This was far more interesting than expected.

  • @nash984954
    @nash984954 Жыл бұрын

    Love the scholarship in and of these videos. How to copy them, buy them etc?

  • @alangriffin8146
    @alangriffin8146 Жыл бұрын

    Of course John had a complete works of Josephus as a teen. Love it!

  • @vhawk1951kl

    @vhawk1951kl

    6 ай бұрын

    Josephus had ti vbe invented because there was no evidence that jesus had evver existedand when the belief alone loons realise they are coming unstuck they spilt their bets and try some sort of pseud science like that hillbilly fake phd that isists genesis(which is no too bad as novels go) can be substantiated with evince Ido wish that they would just stick to the dumnass belief bet and not keep splitting their bets because it makes them look bad liars and worse fools- they go no evidence needed because we belieeeeve and then invent or reinterpret substantiates nothing god-on - toast is a three-legged donkey but backing it to place is even more stupid. Noacchian flood is also a no-hoper and a dogeared cutting from the Old testament Herald Tribune forecasting rain for 40 days not really let it place either Josephus my arse! It is a sort of christian Piltdown man

  • @GrammarDrops
    @GrammarDrops5 ай бұрын

    Another amazing lecture. Thank you, John. ❤

  • @centre-place

    @centre-place

    5 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it!

  • @rxw5520
    @rxw5520 Жыл бұрын

    This may be my favorite one yet. I love how he touched on other ideas from previous lectures in a new context..

  • @scambammer6102

    @scambammer6102

    Жыл бұрын

    since we KNOW much of the TF was forged, the burden of proof is on those who assert any portion of it was not forged to prove that, and to identify the original portions, which nobody can even begin to do. The best that apologists can do is try to argue that parts of the TF might not have been forged, an even those arguments are weak. The whole passage is out of context and varies substantially from Josephus' genuine writing.

  • @rxw5520

    @rxw5520

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scambammer6102 I’m sorry, I don’t understand. Are you trying to persuade me that the testinonium Flavian im is an interpolation? That’s what this and other Centre Place lectures have already taught me. The authentic reference is likely Antiquities book 20 chapter 9 where he mentions James as the brother of Jesus “who was called Christ”, considering a Christian editor would almost certainly have phrased it “Jesus who was Christ” or “Jesus Christ”. As for “burden of proof” arguments, it depends what the question is you’re asking. But I don’t think prevailing or contemporary wisdom would necessarily change where it lies. If the question is “did Jesus exist?” I think the burden of proof certainly lies with the person who is trying to argue that he did, and the mention in Antiquities alongside near-contemporary writings of Paul seem to be the evidence that has convinced most people he did exist. If the question is “is all this stuff true, was Jesus the messiah, did he come back from the dead” etc, the burden of proof also lies on the one claiming it did happen. The problem is there’s no real evidence it did happen, but that’s why they call it faith. Faith is believing something without evidence. If you had hard evidence of all of this, you wouldn’t need faith. The decision of whether or not to believe it is up to the person. Personally I don’t care I just find this time period and the birth of Christianity extremely fascinating.

  • @gregorybyrne2453

    @gregorybyrne2453

    Жыл бұрын

    Judaeo Christian is an oxymoronic term. Double minded man You don't put old covenant wine into God's New Covenant wine skins. Jews were Anti Jesus is humanities Christ Messiah 2023 years ago and are still AntiChrists today the days of Noah Jesus warned us to watch and prepare for. Yeshua Hamishia, Jesus Messiah! Who takes away the past sins of the world exposing the conspiracy that is the Jewish Sanhedrin, the father of lies, brood of vipers, synagogue of Satan. Welcome to the days of Noah.

  • @histguy101
    @histguy101 Жыл бұрын

    I was under the impression that Latin manuscripts of Josephus are all Renaissance translations, and that Josephus was not very popular in the west during the middle ages.

  • @beatricereja1664
    @beatricereja1664 Жыл бұрын

    Wow! Just what I've been looking for. Great presentation.

  • @PGB55
    @PGB55 Жыл бұрын

    This channel and John keep doing such a great job of summarizing so much scholarship in an honest way. I've yet to hear any contradictions with the more academic / detailed presentations, discussions, debates, etc. elsewhere. Always puts a nice bow on a lot of disparate topics.

  • @vsedai

    @vsedai

    Жыл бұрын

    Obviously you never watch Bart Ehrman, LOL

  • @PGB55

    @PGB55

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vsedai obviously you don't have the foggiest idea of using logic.

  • @vsedai

    @vsedai

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PGB55 Expand your horizons beyond Christian apologetics. Try listening to what historians say about this passage. I go with historians on history, not my feelings.

  • @PGB55

    @PGB55

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vsedai please use your brain. You're making a lot of assumptions with zero evidence. I've listened to hundreds of hours of Ehrman and many others as good or better, and am an atheist. This channel is not apologetics. you apparently don't know what that word means because if you did you would never label this channel as apologetic.

  • @PGB55

    @PGB55

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vsedai also this channel is not by Christians. You don't know the first thing about this group apparently but keep writing dumb comments to others as well. I also guarantee you don't follow history or historians nor could you tell the difference.

  • @_CR_
    @_CR_ Жыл бұрын

    Excellent lecture … thank you very much

  • @user-xd1wt7cr8f
    @user-xd1wt7cr8f8 ай бұрын

    So easy to follow! Admire this guy! Great educator!

  • @vhawk1951kl

    @vhawk1951kl

    6 ай бұрын

    Google Josephus debunked

  • @apollo8352
    @apollo8352 Жыл бұрын

    I really appreciate your conclusions based on sound logic.

  • @larryc835
    @larryc835 Жыл бұрын

    Fantastic symposium.💯

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo Жыл бұрын

    People stopped identifying as Pharisees because so many high-profile members of the church were from that school. The Pharisees were bees in the bonnet of the Sadducees, which was the sect that had Jesus killed. But Pharisees were all over the Jerusalem church in the first century. In Acts, it talks about the Pharisees being the ones who were pushing for the circumcision of the Gentiles. Indeed, James the Just is identified as such a one. Gamaliel, a Pharisee, was a very high profile rabbi who cautioned against treating the Christians too severely, "...lest haply ye be found even to fight against God." Gamaliel, in fact, was Paul's rabbi. So there were a lot of political reasons to disown the Pharisees.

  • @zobewan9347
    @zobewan9347 Жыл бұрын

    Appreciate all the hard work putting this together. Have you done something comparing the Septuagint and the masoretic texts. Because Jesus quoted the Septuagint, I think, and it differs from that quote in the masoretic. See Is 61:1 and Luke 4:18. Are there more differences?

  • @kennethsnyder9236
    @kennethsnyder9236 Жыл бұрын

    This philosophical argument parallels with what I have learned about over the years. I have subsequently prescribed this channel for further studies.

  • @rubenducheny2788
    @rubenducheny2788 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful lecture! Amazing!

  • @kjmax1068
    @kjmax1068 Жыл бұрын

    Barbara Theirings book said it was hard to find anything in Josephus' writings about Yeshua/Jesus. It was decades ago when I read it so cant remember all I read

  • @kevwhufc8640

    @kevwhufc8640

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no evidence that Josephus existed, the only evidence we have is less than 600 years old. So called copies of copies of copies of..... But no real evidence at all.

  • @gaillee5747
    @gaillee5747 Жыл бұрын

    Is it possible Solomon used different trees to discuss different people groups in Tanakh?

  • @johnmasterson2534
    @johnmasterson2534 Жыл бұрын

    Hi just listened to dr.henery abrahamson,can youhelp me,question....he suggests that comment on jesus was added a little comment re jesus suggesting a certain slant

  • @user-wj9hx8ww3z
    @user-wj9hx8ww3z9 күн бұрын

    Extraordinary as always, ty👍

  • @atheistapostate7019
    @atheistapostate7019 Жыл бұрын

    I think due to the mentioning of James and the Jesus connection there, the latter verses are original BUT added too, more than likely by Eusesibius

  • @martyfromnebraska1045

    @martyfromnebraska1045

    Жыл бұрын

    Cope

  • @henryy-tq8tn

    @henryy-tq8tn

    Жыл бұрын

    Massive cope lmao zero evidence

  • @onedirection2301

    @onedirection2301

    Жыл бұрын

    "Atheist Apostate", are you sure you don't have some kind of bias here? 🤣

  • @atheistapostate7019

    @atheistapostate7019

    Жыл бұрын

    @@onedirection2301 actually not at all ;) I am an atheist who does not reject Jesus as a historical figure, and rely on scholars who've spent a life time studying these issues. Either way it does not change my view that Jesus was only a regular human that magical stories sprung up about, and he wasn't anything that special outside of Paul making him so.

  • @onedirection2301

    @onedirection2301

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@atheistapostate7019 okay, fair enough. (I wrote a letter to you on my about page). I'm fairly familiar with the view that Paul made him out to be more than just a man. Some even say it was Paul who transformed Jesus into the "son of God." I'm curious, what makes you say this? (I'm a Christian, so I have my own biases!) Whenever I read the letters of Paul, it just seems like he's writing to people who already believe that Jesus was special, i.e. Jesus' resurrection is already assumed, in many of Paul's arguments. Those would be consistent with him writing to a bunch of people who already believed this. (His lengthy argument in 1 Cor 15 is about defending a general resurrection of the dead. He uses the resurrection of Jesus as an argument FOR a general resurrection.)

  • @humblethinker8493
    @humblethinker8493 Жыл бұрын

    Wow, this was great! I wonder if the host here has any thoughts of the idea of a late composition of the Old Testament, that the Septuagint text in 270bce was not a translation but rather was the original, as people like Russell Gmirkin propose.

  • @jd-gw4gr
    @jd-gw4gr Жыл бұрын

    sound bit 14:54 the gentlemen states the supposition if josephus used aramaic and again stress the suppositional phrase if, then concludes when a definitive statement based upon a supposition previously made: did i miss something here? his definitive conclusion is based upon an assumption, why is that. how can one draw an conclusion based on "if" and then state the result as ??????? as what, it is still an hypothesis, yes or no: who can help with this, what is i miss?

  • @tomdungey8505

    @tomdungey8505

    5 ай бұрын

    It appears that he supposed a lot of stuff based on his view of his studies I'm I right?

  • @eyeswideshut1989

    @eyeswideshut1989

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tomdungey8505 Is the original commenter referring to Josephus? If so, I would surmise that he drew conclusions based on "if's* due to the fact that he was a sage/seer/saer. One such Man, by seeing/saeing all sides/angles- Can postulate a conclusion based on an "if" due to this very reason. Literacy is very literal, however, with sufficient "if's" one can weave a more complete picture which tells 1000 tales. With enough pieces of a puzzle- one can hypothesize the finished product. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

  • @tomdungey8505

    @tomdungey8505

    5 ай бұрын

    @@eyeswideshut1989 OK it's fine to do that but thoundands of ifs doesn't mean it's the true story. To completely believe the ifs is to be mislead. This guy seems to have lots of his ifs in his truth. It's misleading to present it as complete truth.

  • @eyeswideshut1989

    @eyeswideshut1989

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tomdungey8505 I innerstand what you're saying, but you're taking my literacy too literal- which is to be expected. If by using "if" he is using it in a hypothetical sense- then the situation is no different then current scientific studies and the like... They surmise based on their hypotheses. That being said, I still agree with your statement. However, it is said that Josiphus was a sage/seer. Whether you "believe" such a thing could/does exist is irrelevant in this scenario- so why not play devil's advocate a little? Say you have the ability to see all angles/sides to a topic/subject at hand. BUT, just because you can SEE/SAE all sides- doesn't mean you have the capability to actually compile them, since a sage/seer/saer is just that, and not a builder. What would someone who has such a capability do in this scenario? You can see all angles- but you're not a builder. You would sae what you see, relaying all angles/if's, in the best structured manner possible for those who do not posses such capabilities (99.99% of people) because you can't build it for them in some sort of physical manner- the best possible hope is to use the least best option of the day- literacy. By the worst option, I refer to the fact that first came Language, then -> Numbers -> Signs & Symbols -> Runes ... Catch my drift?

  • @eyeswideshut1989

    @eyeswideshut1989

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tomdungey8505 I also do not believe I recall hearing anywhere that it is said that HE said "it is complete truth". What is "complete truth"? What is "truth"? Is there just "one truth" or does everyone have their "own truth"? Is it in the eye of the beholder? My point is- the best possible way to navigate such stories from someone such as Josiphus is to attempt to walk the middle path while interpreting. Good/Bad are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, when it comes to a Man such as Josiphus. They walk the walk and talk the talk... All we can do is do our best to try to follow in His footsteps in complete darkness with only his words to guide us. Food for thought.

  • @ConservativeArabNet
    @ConservativeArabNet Жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation: like reading a book in 1 hr

  • @mishaanton5436
    @mishaanton5436 Жыл бұрын

    After listening to 3 lectures I have a question? Do you day of the Bible that "It has come down to us" ?

  • @dnaphysics
    @dnaphysics Жыл бұрын

    John Hamer, here, is the opposite of Josephus - John gives me the vibe of being thoroughly objective. Very comforting to relax the B.S. detector

  • @greenier8658
    @greenier8658 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @luluadapa5222
    @luluadapa5222 Жыл бұрын

    Many thanks John. A wonderfully balanced and thorough view of Josephus Flavius. His complete works was my last book purchase. I'm looking forward to working my way through his voluminous writings, and revisiting your fascinating upload. Your cartography-based talks are equally as fascinating. Kind regards from England 💜🙏

  • @davidgladstone5261

    @davidgladstone5261

    Жыл бұрын

    Balanced? Covering for his transgressions and crimes?

  • @vsedai

    @vsedai

    Жыл бұрын

    @@davidgladstone5261 That is exactly what I was thinking

  • @vsedai

    @vsedai

    Жыл бұрын

    @jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE Just google Josephus Jesus controversy. As someone else said below " The biggest problem for me with the 'Jesus paragraph ' isn't just the fact that Josephus suddenly becomes a devout Christian for a few words before going back to being Jewish. It's the fact that the paragraph is literally jammed in the middle of another one. The text fits together better if you simply take the paragraph out completely"

  • @vsedai

    @vsedai

    Жыл бұрын

    @jewLUBEkneegahRsWHINE Ya right. Why are you even in this conversation, when it is obvious that you don't follow Christ?

  • @scambammer6102

    @scambammer6102

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vsedai lol follow your little make-believe puppet

  • @dynomiteslim4590
    @dynomiteslim4590 Жыл бұрын

    I also feel that a partial interpolation is the most likely. It's not hard to imagine scribes coming across a rather matter of fact mention of Jesus and thinking , we had better add a few things here.

  • @scambammer6102

    @scambammer6102

    Жыл бұрын

    it's easier to imagine someone making the whole thing up. We KNOW much of it is forged. It's pure speculation that some of it wasn't. Or even if so, what part wasn't.

  • @onedirection2301

    @onedirection2301

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scambammer6102 "easier to imagine" is not how scholarship works, though. We don't KNOW much of it is forged. For all we know, it could be pretty much what Josephus actually wrote.

  • @scambammer6102

    @scambammer6102

    Жыл бұрын

    @@onedirection2301 I only used that phrase because the OP did. Funny that you do the same thing. MY point is that, since we know much of it is fake, none of it is reliable.

  • @stephen2975
    @stephen2975 Жыл бұрын

    Why did his followers give up everything to follow his teaching even laying down their lives? They were thoroughly convinced of his God like character and his resurrection

  • @annascott3542

    @annascott3542

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah I mean why doesn’t everyone just believe everything they’re told? Why can’t they just accept what they’re told, deny reality, submit and obey even against their own self-interest? What could possibly be wrong or go wrong with that? 🤷‍♀

  • @TheGuiltsOfUs

    @TheGuiltsOfUs

    Жыл бұрын

    Why did many follow the younger chinese brother of Jesus - Hong Xiuquan - and start a rebellion that caused the deaths of 20-30 million people? People be crazy yo!

  • @peterblock6964

    @peterblock6964

    Жыл бұрын

    ¿Why, @stephen2975, are millions of donald trump's followers willing to believe anything and everything that gaslighting con man tells them to believe, and do anything he tells them to do? They've been gaslit, convinced, and hypnotized into believing he is "anointed by God" to lead them.

  • @CTechAstronomy

    @CTechAstronomy

    9 ай бұрын

    They didn’t give up much man they were illiterate and didn’t have a PS5

  • @neocount6397

    @neocount6397

    7 ай бұрын

    Most of the ones who died during the conquest weren't Christian.

  • @joeanderson8839
    @joeanderson8839 Жыл бұрын

    He was a historian who gives accounts of events during the time of Christ.

  • @michaltaylor8926

    @michaltaylor8926

    10 ай бұрын

    Josephis was born after when jesus was killed. So what you said is not true at all.

  • @ralphowen3367
    @ralphowen3367 Жыл бұрын

    I am reading Joseph's now, but now and then I find some troubling errors. Two glaring ones are when he disserts on David being confronted by Nathan the prophet about his sin with Bathsheba and her husband. First, Joseph's says that this visitation came by a dream. Then Josephus says that this double mortal sin was the first sin the king ever committed in his entire life.

  • @leonceboudreauxwolf
    @leonceboudreauxwolf Жыл бұрын

    I don't know if it's true or not but read somewhere that Josephus had written down a physical description of Jesus. If that's true I'd love to get my hands on a copy.

  • @chuckschillingvideos

    @chuckschillingvideos

    8 ай бұрын

    How would he have come by that? Jesus of Nazareth is a figure of miniscule importance in his works and it is...very odd to think that Josephus would have bothered to record such a thing, even if he had it (which, obviously, he didn't). There is no reason to think the appearance of Jesus of Nazareth differed in any significant way from that of the typical Jewish male in the Levant at the time.

  • @1stblackmanonthenet

    @1stblackmanonthenet

    7 ай бұрын

    @@chuckschillingvideos miniscule importance in his works as perceived by the world or His followers? Just looking for clarity (off-topic)

  • @pkemoiarapkandie
    @pkemoiarapkandie8 ай бұрын

    Could josephus himself use the name jesus at that time? or it's just part of the editing done latter...

  • @jamesmorris9816
    @jamesmorris9816 Жыл бұрын

    Flavio Barbiero’s book The Secret Society of Moses might be of interest to anyone interested in Josephus.

  • @zhengfuukusheng9238
    @zhengfuukusheng9238 Жыл бұрын

    It's very likely Josephus himself was a literary character, a mere nome de plume used by Roman scribes. From his absolutely extraordinary treachery of his own people to his tall tales that mirrored Paul and Jeesus....to his incredible escape from an equally improbable suicide pact at Masada. The Romans were expert propagandists, who, when needing more evidence to back up their position, weren't alien to the idea of making up witnesses, 1st, 2nd or 3rd hand ones. The more the merrier

  • @donaldcarpenter5328

    @donaldcarpenter5328

    10 ай бұрын

    BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @glenngrowe7105
    @glenngrowe7105 Жыл бұрын

    Very objective, balanced, and informative. Thank you.

  • @steviewax
    @steviewax10 ай бұрын

    The talk is a well presented and extensive scholarly presentation on Josephus and the fate of the Jews at the time of the Roman destruction of the 2nd temple in Jerusalem. While the speaker shows No direct affiliation with Israel and Judaism, the speakers insights would provide valuable insights to the Jewish people and Israelis.

  • @mayermargolis8990
    @mayermargolis8990 Жыл бұрын

    This is an excellent lecture. Could you please identify the lecturer? You don’t even give his name.

  • @ncarmstron

    @ncarmstron

    Жыл бұрын

    Jon Hamer

  • @mayermargolis8990

    @mayermargolis8990

    Жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @TheEbble
    @TheEbble Жыл бұрын

    How do you know 'for' Josephus what he might have concluded about Jesus?🤔🤔🤔

  • @andreteixeira5635
    @andreteixeira56359 ай бұрын

    Thiis was a really interesting class! Many thanks and greetings from a History loving and Roman Catholic from Brazil!

  • @AtheeNa1714
    @AtheeNa1714 Жыл бұрын

    Great video

  • @robbinpapalucas4620
    @robbinpapalucas4620 Жыл бұрын

    Look into Ralph Ellis work on this topic. Ralph is a very in-depth researching on this subject.

  • @frankiewally1891
    @frankiewally18915 ай бұрын

    well,he did not really switch,simply was spared by Romans for his bravery and sagacity,while defending some area around the city Jotapata.But thank you very much for this presentation,really throws some light on a very murky past.

  • @dovbarleib3256
    @dovbarleib3256 Жыл бұрын

    Pharisee is a Meforesh in Hebrew, one who *interprets* the Written Torah with the Oral Torah.

  • @Rico-Suave_
    @Rico-Suave_11 ай бұрын

    Watched all of it 1:51:15

  • @pauladenaro5697
    @pauladenaro5697Ай бұрын

    I appreciate all his hypotheses about what he may have written versus what may have been inserted. He doesn't mention that it could also be exactly how Josephus wrote it. Who knows one way or the other? Perhaps like the soldiers at the cross Josephus got the message and believed. We don't really know.

  • @andylyon3867
    @andylyon3867 Жыл бұрын

    Shakespeare spent 8 years as a child studying Latin he could read Latin better any modern scholar of Latin today. He did not need translations as would be true for ALL English school boys of that time.

  • @annascott3542

    @annascott3542

    Жыл бұрын

    Lololol yeah… sure he did!!! What a con.

  • @andylyon3867

    @andylyon3867

    Жыл бұрын

    @@annascott3542 no con he spent 8 years going to school where everything was in Latin.

  • @user-tg3tj2nq6v

    @user-tg3tj2nq6v

    Жыл бұрын

    @@annascott3542 All of them studied Latin and Greek. Hardly nothing was in English, there was no English literature. Newton kept notes in Greek.

  • @aliceputt3133

    @aliceputt3133

    Жыл бұрын

    They all studied Latin and Greek at that time but there was also considerable English poetry and drama from Ben Johnson, Spencer, Francis Bacon, and Christopher Marlowe among others. They were contemporary with Shakespeare. This is the Tudor Stuart period leading to the King James Bible.

  • @marvinacklin792
    @marvinacklin792 Жыл бұрын

    Good stuff

  • @meskes4059
    @meskes40593 ай бұрын

    What if he was writing it as directed by Flavious?

  • @epeeypen
    @epeeypen3 ай бұрын

    i notice a pattern when historical academia is applied to these text.. often they take passages and statements and then attribute different authors or inserts in order to back up their random assertion. same thing happens in Deuteronomy .. they just invent the idea of multiple authors.

  • @evelynmoyer9069
    @evelynmoyer90696 ай бұрын

    I like the idea proposed by Joseph Atwill that Caesar's Messiah was created by Josephus.

  • @rickvassell8349
    @rickvassell8349 Жыл бұрын

    I like to think of it as "ce" or Christian era and "bce" as before the Christian era.

  • @juliadolker9854

    @juliadolker9854

    Жыл бұрын

    Only that the years 0 to 2023 was not the Christian era for most people.

  • @medina4600

    @medina4600

    Жыл бұрын

    @@juliadolker9854what are you talking about? Christianity is the largest religion by number of devotees/ converts in 2023 and that’s been the case since 350 AD.

  • @Philip-bk2dm

    @Philip-bk2dm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@medina4600 He said from zero not 359 C.E. , that's a long time, and you refer to those who identify as belonging to a recognized religion and that leaves a lot of people out of the picture. But what does it matter?

  • @thoughtfuloutsider

    @thoughtfuloutsider

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@medina4600 and @Juliadolker9854 I don't think you can say Christianity was the largest religion from 350ce onwards. By that time Buddhism was important in China, and with Hinduism in India and south-east Asia. From 650-700ce in the next 200 yrs Islam spread very quickly replacing the Greco-Roman empire from India to Spain and up to China. Europe's conversion was only completed 1400s with the crusades against the Slavs and in Spain against the Muslims.

  • @777rogerf

    @777rogerf

    Жыл бұрын

    @@thoughtfuloutsiderCounting people who have been conquered and forced on pain of death to convert to a religion is questionable when evaluating the comparative popularity of religions.

  • @AfterBurner369
    @AfterBurner369 Жыл бұрын

    Happy 3️⃣7️⃣th Birthday Ben! 🤩🥳😎🍰🧁🍕🥙🥂🎊🎉💃🕺

  • @mcgie2002
    @mcgie2002 Жыл бұрын

    I absolutely love these lectures, but i’m a bit puzzled by your … denomination for lack of a better word, in light of all this truth seeking historical criticism? Does that make sense?

  • @chrisconrod9560

    @chrisconrod9560

    Жыл бұрын

    Heaven forbid that someone seeks the truth! Are you afraid that the truth will hurt your faith?

  • @mcgie2002

    @mcgie2002

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisconrod9560 Quite the opposite. You misread

  • @wungabunga

    @wungabunga

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisconrod9560That’s a terribly naive assumption on your part. Look at the likes of Tabor, who is clearly desperate for Christianity to be debunked. All under the parasol of ‘purely historical investigation’. My guess (in Tabor’s case) is one too many visits to the Holy Land.

  • @chrisconrod9560

    @chrisconrod9560

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wungabunga Christianity was debunked a long time ago. Give it up.

  • @wungabunga

    @wungabunga

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrisconrod9560 Then what are you wasting your time discussing it for? Manichaeism debate much? No, no. I think you are indeed upset by its enduring popularity and truth. I bid you good day, sir.

  • @markcharron
    @markcharron5 ай бұрын

    Josephus really seems to embody the notion of "I'm just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe..."

  • @Knife_Collector
    @Knife_Collector Жыл бұрын

    I have a six book set of the Works of Josephus printed in 1825. Not sure I want to read them, as the pages may start falling apart due to age.

  • @kevwhufc8640

    @kevwhufc8640

    Жыл бұрын

    Being from Victorian times They might be worth a few bucks . I'd look into the $$ value. :)

  • @Canonimus
    @Canonimus Жыл бұрын

    How possible would be that Josephus wouldn’t mention that this character was a disciple of John the Bautist? For me has always be bizarre that he didn’t make that connection. The important point for Josephus is Pilate. The second passage is also problematic, but even if it is original it does not match with christian tradition about how James died…

  • @donaldcarpenter5328

    @donaldcarpenter5328

    10 ай бұрын

    Josephus did NOT live in the time of Jesus but 70-90 years LATER!!! He didn't even see PAul!!! Did NOT even MENTION PAUL at ALL!!!

  • @davewhitley5612
    @davewhitley5612 Жыл бұрын

    Flavius Josephus aka Arrius Calpurnius Piso, was part Jewish but totally roman. Magnificent writer, did a great job turning the feats of Titus Flavius into Jesus. See Caesars Messiah. The Romans were losing and needed a plan.

  • @kevwhufc8640

    @kevwhufc8640

    Жыл бұрын

    Who were the Romans losing to ? A genuine question,,

  • @donaldcarpenter5328

    @donaldcarpenter5328

    10 ай бұрын

    OMG finally TRUTH on the "web" of LIES!!!

  • @ghanvedsingh8946
    @ghanvedsingh8946 Жыл бұрын

    Who was he and why he matters that much?

  • @Malouco
    @Malouco11 ай бұрын

    Isaiah and Joseph are what makes me believe in Jesus

  • @daretta-gx4fb
    @daretta-gx4fb7 ай бұрын

    Going forward....

  • @torjusekkje6264
    @torjusekkje62643 ай бұрын

    There is a 0% chance, that the shortened version of TF has any substance to it.

  • @wendyhughes2234
    @wendyhughes2234 Жыл бұрын

    1 Corinthians 13:12 NLT Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as YUH now knows me completely.

  • @jefferyboring4410
    @jefferyboring441010 ай бұрын

    “We don’t have a un corrupted version” then who’s the one editing the book for their own beliefs? Has one that varies at all been found? “He was the Christ” is that seriously a added foot note? Seems like a very blunt odd thing to add in. He has no proof to substantiate his claim he’s the one editing the text to meet his needs.

  • @iamthenotbenamed365
    @iamthenotbenamed3658 ай бұрын

    Bedenk; zonder deze vermeende Persoon verdwijnen vele-Verhaaltjes naar het Rijk-der-Fantasten ...

  • @TonyRomeo9796
    @TonyRomeo97965 ай бұрын

    Anybody who claims Abraham is a myth is wrong, on top of a few other of his interpretation

  • @hombrepobre9646
    @hombrepobre9646 Жыл бұрын

    you know I like this guy, he is humble. I've watched a lot of his lecture

  • @youta5
    @youta5 Жыл бұрын

    Best source for info about Christianity.

  • @simoneneveragain2939
    @simoneneveragain2939 Жыл бұрын

    OMG!! REAL HISTORY finally!

  • @donaldcarpenter5328

    @donaldcarpenter5328

    10 ай бұрын

    Sorry, its FAKE,FAKE FAKE!!!

  • @alexanderbrown7631
    @alexanderbrown7631 Жыл бұрын

    Yes I think you are around 70 - 75% right.

  • @wendyhughes2234
    @wendyhughes2234 Жыл бұрын

    .Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 KJV 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

  • @ConservativeArabNet
    @ConservativeArabNet Жыл бұрын

    I notice that Egyptian Muslims seems to influenced by Judean mythology as very old mosques have no minerates nor qibla , washing room outside

  • @sebolddaniel
    @sebolddaniel9 ай бұрын

    John is not a nerd at all

  • @albusai
    @albusai11 ай бұрын

    Paul the apostle prohibited fallowing the Law. So was the first council in the book of acts..

  • @dorianmodify
    @dorianmodify9 ай бұрын

    See Yonaton Adler. The entire ancient Jewish line of thought is under scrutiny by araeology.

  • @user-sd8mh7vw2e
    @user-sd8mh7vw2e6 ай бұрын

    He does not need a bolo tie. He should have taught ferrisbuellar. Ferris would have been more inspired in his studies😅😊😁

  • @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893
    @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893 Жыл бұрын

    ""So, a history is more factual, is non-fiction, is academic. It really happened, whereas a story is more imaginary, it's fiction, it's narrative.""

  • @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893

    @darkijah-andersjehovahsn7893

    Жыл бұрын

    I guess the problem with history, is that in Danish we seemed to have one world of History being synonyms with story. Oddly enough.... Hmmmm I don't know... mmkay.

  • @fidelmedina3576
    @fidelmedina3576 Жыл бұрын

    Do nt assume the text was vandalized. Now you are vandalizing

  • @deathguppie
    @deathguppie Жыл бұрын

    The biggest problem for me with the 'Jesus paragraph ' isn't just the fact that Josephus suddenly becomes a devout Christian for a few words before going back to being Jewish. It's the fact that the paragraph is literally jammed in the middle of another one. The text fits together better if you simply take the paragraph out completely.

  • @milearsic6303

    @milearsic6303

    Жыл бұрын

    He actually invented rabbinic Judaism and what’s left as the TRASH and Extra end up in messianic movement they build over 300-700 years and labeled Christianity . In the begin there was no Christ or what’s so ever , they started 3 main fractions : Calcedonian , manecians and Aryan , each of them viewed legend from different understanding

  • @davidgladstone5261

    @davidgladstone5261

    Жыл бұрын

    This was total BS. He didn't know Jesus from Adam.

  • @histguy101

    @histguy101

    Жыл бұрын

    It's pretty widely agreed that some flourishing was added to an existing paragraph, possibly as a copyist footnotes being incorporated into the next copy. Reconstructions have been made. The problem with suggesting the whole thing was inserted is that this was referenced in ancient times. It might be explainable if the quote wasn't referenced until the 9th-10th century in Constantinople, where you have more of a bottleneck of ancient Greek manuacripts being copied, but in the 2nd and 3rd century, it would have been more widely disseminated

  • @toosiyabrandt8676

    @toosiyabrandt8676

    Жыл бұрын

    @@milearsic6303 The Apostles had the ‘ Image made without hands’ which is still with us and has been scientifically authenticated as having been caused by a burst of supercharged radiation at the time of His resurrection ( Robert Rucker nuclear physicist) Shalom to us only in Christ Yeshua returning soon to reign over the world from Jerusalem.

  • @annascott3542

    @annascott3542

    Жыл бұрын

    @@histguy101 it was referenced by Eusebius, and hen not again for around 3 or 400 years. It sounds Eusebiuen, he was a known liar, even proud of it and we know all our manuscripts go back to one single manuscript: the one from Eusebius’ library. This is based on scholarship that’s come out in recent years.

  • @dorianmodify
    @dorianmodify9 ай бұрын

    The book in which the TF exists was an attempt to demonstrate that Vespasian was the messiah. Obviously Josephus would not say someone else was the messiah in THAT book.

  • @AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr
    @AnthonyFlowers-pt9dr5 ай бұрын

    I haave the william whistin version

  • @cali7150
    @cali715011 ай бұрын

    They always question anything about Jesus 🙄.

  • @Ma1q444

    @Ma1q444

    10 ай бұрын

    They always do, it’s so funny as well because most atheist claim to be logical but yet they prop conspiracy theorists with literally no basis or evidence just claims.

  • @bradrichards8122
    @bradrichards8122 Жыл бұрын

    Odd to discount the text on pure speculation and assumption EVEN with the admission that there is no other versions without this text. Seems non-scholarly. More like shoehorning of bias.

  • @Research0digo

    @Research0digo

    Жыл бұрын

    Precisely.

  • @albusai
    @albusai11 ай бұрын

    Lots lots of manuscripts the more the easier to find out what the original says .. ..

  • @jaredprince4772
    @jaredprince47726 ай бұрын

    6:17 No, you have to delete quite a bit more superfluous text than that shown in blue. The following might remain and likely little, if any, more. "About this time there lived Jesus, and was a teacher who won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. Pilate had condemned him to a cross, and the tribe of Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared." The other parts which I removed but you did not are too pro-Christian to have been written by Josephus himself not a Christian.

  • @Research0digo
    @Research0digo Жыл бұрын

    Curious, if this English translation has footnotes to an Index, why there are words that contain the letter J. It should read Yeshua, which could also mean 'Joshua'. 'Jesus' and 'Christ' wouldn't have been used unless Iosephus was fluent in Greek. The text should read Meshiach or Mashiach. Yeshua (Jesus is Greek as well) wasn't crucified on a cross, he was nailed to (a) wood, then pierced. Ron Wyatt (RIP) believed that wood happened to be placed along the road into and out of 'J'erusalem, and directly above Hezekiah's cave or grotto, where he (Ron) found what he believed to be the ark of the covenant. 10:09 So you're trying to convince us that no two copies, especially in different regions were ever checked against each other? 12:19 Josephus was famous for embellishing. 16:00ish why would an Iudmean with Roman citizenship write manuscripts in Greek? Aramaic might have been his childhood tongue, but I surmise he wrote in Latin, for a wider audience. 21:50 when you keep saying "the Bible", are you referring to the Hebrew Bible? Philo was dead in 50AD - as you mentioned the Greek Septuagint, you must be referring to the Hebrew Bible. I wish you would specify, as 50AD is awfully early for a complete Christian Bible. Thanks.

  • @thinktankindi2664
    @thinktankindi2664 Жыл бұрын

    You did not focus on lecture...did you😅?

  • @CharlesJohnson-ui2pk
    @CharlesJohnson-ui2pk9 ай бұрын

    Okay, as a believer, I am tempted to believe Josephus did write those verses, However, why wouldn’t he? Because he’s a devout Jew? The gospel of Christ is all about the devout Jews converting to his message. Why would Josephus’ maybe “Christian “ curiosity. be concerning?

  • @Sphere723

    @Sphere723

    16 күн бұрын

    Because the rest of the writtings by Josephus make clear he was a Pharrisee, a Jewish philosophical movement very much at odds with early Christianity. On top of that Josephus spends a lot of effort trying to convince his fellow Jews that the Roman Emperor (who is Josephus' Patron), is the Messiah sent by God to rule the Jews. A passage where he openly endorses Jesus as the Messiah seems really silly.

  • @Amor-Fati.
    @Amor-Fati.9 ай бұрын

    Josephus wrote, with help of many scribes, the New Testament. We have motive, knowledge of Judaism, education, and time period lines up with perfectly. And written, in of course Greek, not original Hebrew as OT. Would God really write in the language of the heathen?

  • @stevenguevara2184
    @stevenguevara2184 Жыл бұрын

    At Summer Camp? You were advanced to say the least

  • @jd-gw4gr
    @jd-gw4gr Жыл бұрын

    the first 13 minutes the gentleman argues copiers added other copiers notes to the text they were copying concerning the resurrection but there are other historical records that were recorded about the resurrection was were even reported to ceasar. what about those records?

  • @keleniengaluafe2600
    @keleniengaluafe26004 ай бұрын

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