If I’m wandering around the Middle East in 1000 BC, and I see the city of Sodom getting destroyed by fire from the sky, and then I meet a dude who says “I used to live there, but my uncle‘s God spoke to him and warned me to leave,“ I’m followingthat dude’s religion.
@@huntergann938 Yes, of course. The "hero" of the story tries to assist the R*** of his daughers and then pretends to be so drunk that he didn't know who he was impregnating but still able to do so, it is clearly not about condemning immorality.
A professor I had in Uni said that “City” was an Old Testament term for a settlement that had a wall, or otherwise protected. It didn’t have a minimum population. Any of these “Cities” could have been a few dozen families, in 4-room homes, surrounded by an earthen burm. Anything like that could also have been weathered away over the centuries. Then again, he was speculating.
In the UK a city is granted that status by the monarch and usually has a cathedral, university or both, and usually a large population. I imagine what each culture terms a “city” will be different.
My grandfather was a devout Christian who dreamed of visiting Biblical sites in the Middle East. Before he died, one of his daughters (my aunt) made his dream a reality when the Christian college she was attending offered students and their families tours to Israel. He got to see the wailing wall, the Jordan river, Nazareth, and Bethleham. According to my aunt, he geeked out the entire time.
This can’t be emphasized enough! Enormous amounts of information are obtained at a relatively low cost and allowing for targeted excavations to answer specific questions while leaving other places intact for future archeologists with better technology.
I regret daily the decision not to go to graduate school and enter the workforce instead. I love remote sensing and all the courses I had, had just come back from Guatemala, and was thinking about collecting and processing LiDAR through jungle canopy. How to look for cities and ruins. Now I watch shows about it with my kids on TV.
The site of Tel Hammam on the Dead Sea has a strong case as the city of Sodom. The other primary site for consideration is on the south end of the Dead Sea, where there are chunks of sulfur in the area. I don’t know who did the research on this, but no one is seriously considering sites in Syria. The biblical description of the location makes it easy to find the general area and the tels in the area narrow it down further. Tel El Hammam has a really strong case for the site; pottery dating, destruction layer, city size, surface sulfur deposits in the region, biblical description, etc.
Don't forget about the city of Gomorrah which suffered the same fate. It would have to be in the same area. The possibility that one site is Sodom and the other Gomorrah is good, but not yet definite. As for the Air burst, insurance companies would call it an act of God, so why not "Propeller Heads"
Watch Expedition Bible's video where he refutes quite well the Tel El Hammam's case. Mostly, it's because the Bible says that Sodom was on the southern part of the Dead Sea and south of Jerusalem while Hammam is north. Then near the southern coast you have five archeological cities from the bronze age (the time of the Genesis), four of which were destroyed with a fire caused by ignited sulfur balls (there's a layer of ash and sulfur balls still litter the ground there), like what happened in the Bible, and left uninhabited since then. However, the fifth city wasn't destroyed and was still inhabited millennia later. This last city appears on a Byzantine map in a church in Jordan, as named Zoora (as well as in other earlier and later references), which is believed to be the city of Zoar, to where Lot and his daughters escaped before the destruction of Sodom. Also, on a hills close to these plain cities, there's the archeological site of a church built to enclosure and honour a cave that has pottery from several eras, but most importantly, bronze age pottery. So, tradition clearly thought this was the cave that Lot and his daughters lived in after leaving Zoar.
I was thinking the same thing. Hell, even today people would think of it as divine retribution. Because seriously? That's some bad luck on a cosmic scale.
@@xLoLRaven Yeah. No one (or at least, hardly anyone) would claim that divine retribution necessarily has to be something impossible. A meteor strike wiping out a city would do just fine even if the scientists can point to the exact part of the sky it originated from.
Ziglag: "If you perform a quick Google search on our next entry chances are you'll find...." Ziglag found, Ziglag discovered, etc. Sodom: "If you perform a quick Google search on our next entry...." Erm... probably best to stick to Ziglag.
There are many comments disparaging subjects and places discussed in this clip, but archaeological research has verified several items within the Bible. As is the case with many ancient writing purporting to be historical, certain things are likely to be true while others are exagerated or wrong.....Not too long ago inscriptions were found referring to a person as belonging to the House of David. This archeological find was the first known reference to David outside of the Bible. In addition, whether he was a divine personage or not, historians and archeologists express the consensus of opinion Jesus did exist.
Maybe a historical person named Jesus existed but not the Jesus of the Bible. Not the one who performed miracles. No he didn't exist and most biblical scholars agree on that point and have stopped trying to prove it.
@@GreedybeatsGGP Simon has an interesting clip discussing this. The consensus is he did exist, that he was crucified and that he did found the movement that eventually lead to the many variations of Christianity.
@@BobB-w4q So what... Still did not walk on water, multiplied food and healed people by rubbing mud in their face ... Just because a crazy street preacher was maybe real, your magical BS is not also automatically true 🤣 That is not how anything works
The consensus of historians is that they dont want to damage the credibility of their entire profession by admitting the truth. The evidence for a historical Jesus can be researched in a few minutes, it doesnt require abrogating your judgment to "experts". Bart Ehrman says the best evidence for a historical Jesus is the fact he was crucified, and the Jews wouldnt have invented a messiah that was weak and pathetic like this. But if they invented a warrior king messiah, everyone could see such a figure had not existed. Jesus was invented by the Romans to pacify the Jews and it eventually swallowed their empire as well.
I don't know what Bible Mr. Summerfield was reading but he jacked up the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham did not live in either city. Lot did. Somehow after his separation from Abraham, he lost all of his flocks and servants.
I feel like it's a bit of a weird simplification in order to not have to explain that Abraham did the bargaining while Lot was the one living in the city. It got the point of the story across, but it did fall a bit weird. Also, and to be honest they could've bothered mentioning this, Lot's wife looking back is very easily interpreted (I don't remember if this is outright said or not in the text) as longing back to the city, hence the punishment.
9:00 Furlongs weren't in the Bible; they're just the units English Bibles replaced scriptural Gk stadion with... which varied fr~0.75-1.04 furlongs long.
In the same way that describing someone as gay means something entirely different to what it did 60 years ago. The meaning of words can and do change over time.
Who cares if it's the biblical city or not. Its still an incredibly cool archeological discovery. Get a room full of experts and ask them if water is wet and you'll get a room full of different answers.
I do believe it makes sense to generally assume that the cities in the Bible have once existed. After all, these stories were told and written down for people who also lived in the area, who could go visit these areas and might want to do so, and using existing cities would ground even the most fantastical stories about Jesus in a recognizable bedrock. For the people hearing the apostles tell these stories, there would have been a ring of falsehood to the whole thing if they mentioned a city which nobody has ever heard of because the apostle just made it up. Like, you can just pick a real existing city and then spin a yarn. The story doesn't need to be true. But if you want people to believe it, setting your story in the city of Lulu which nobody has ever heard of is just not smart.
We're almost done over building ancient sites, bombing the bajeezus out of them, rebuilding, and repeating. That we find anything is astonishing. But, starting in the region of Ararat......and following the Tigris and Euphrates....... Something was something for sure.
To think of the chances of a meteorite even hitting land today, when we have built sprawling cities with dense populations across every corner of the globe and for it to have devastating effects is so infinitesimally so small... Now imagine how unlucky were they to be hit even in biblical times.
What's interesting about Tel al-Hammam is that it is only about 10 miles north of the Dead Sea, the location where Jewish oral tradition says is where Lot's wife was turned to salt.
There's actually a good deal of speculation that the priest (different religion) king Melchizedek mentioned in the bible was actually the King of Sodom, but this was changed by scribes later to be the city of Shalem, as Sodom had become known as a place of debauchery and Melchizedek ended up being portrayed more favorably. (It's also speculated that originally, Sodom was portrayed more as a place that just didn't offer hospitality to Christians and later morphed into how we know it today over time, retellings, and retranslations. The modern interpretation is probably more medieval fan fiction, than historical fact.)
A lot of modern day cities sit on the sites of old cities. They even have a word for it in the middle east. It's called a Tel as in Tel Aviv. The tel is the mound of older cities and the current city is the last part. So Tel Aviv is actually a mount of old cities under Aviv.
With the airburst thing, with so much heat, perhaps lot's wife wasn't turned to salt for looking back, but instantaneously charred because she'd fallen behind and was caught in the open when the initial heat flash hit?
Watching from Australia prior 2020. Have always looked for your different channels and new videos. I’m not sure why but in the last year I’ve noticed I’m not stimulated as I used to be by your channels. Unfortunately I think that you may have spoken with more passion in the early days and now it feels like a rant report at times. Still quality but something is missing.. either way good work and hope I realign with what I used to enjoy from you. Be well and safe. 😊
@Adam, 'Decimated' doesn't mean annihilated or destroyed, it literally means to eliminate 1/10th or something. It's from the word 'decimal' which means '1/10th'. Decimation was a Roman military punishment for large groups of soldiers. They would divide into groups of 10 and draw lots. One unlucky person would draw the bad lot and be beaten to death by the other nine, thus eliminating 1/10th of the soldiers.
That is the origin of the word, yes, but in current usage it is used to mean that a large portion of a population/thing has been destroyed, as evidenced by that being the definition of the word in current dictionaries.
In modern military studies, a loss of 5% or more can result in 50% loss in battlefield success. 10% basically makes shattered, worthless units. Morale is a tricky thing.
With Bethsaida, chances are high that one's the one referenced by FJ and the other the one referenced in the Onomastica (i.e. the Byzantines got it wrong, seemingly).
Sodom was supposedly the border of the Promised Land. Tell El Hamman being east of the Jordan river which was the border of the Promised Land makes it not the site. Some hills called Jebel Usdum in Arabic is on the southwest shore of the Dead Sea. It is likely near where Usdum or Sodom used to be.
SIMON: I have a great idea for Mega/Side/Whatever Project. Call this a test to see if you respond. There would be A LOT of math involved, astronomy, and billions of years.
Great video! I had the opportunity to go to Bethlehem some years ago during happier times. We crossed the border on foot from Jordan and a few days later went into West Bank. I went to see where Jesus of Nazareth was allegedly born (site of the Church of the Nativity), I wonder what the evidence is to place this as the exact location?
I wonder why so many legendary figures were put into baskets on the river. Seems like one of those power-memes, just like a flood or the fight between good and evil. I think this one has lost quite a bit of meaning in modern times though. I just don't understand why I should care if they were abandoned by their parents or not.
Abraham was the one that bargained with the third man, God, who stayed behind for a bit. Lot was the one that lived there and was at the gates when the two messengers arrived. The two parted ways prior to Sodom's destruction.
I don't know who you have writing for this channel, I hope it's not any of the writers I'm familiar with from your other channels. Tel El Hammam is an archaeological site, but the claims of it being the possible site of Sodom are based solely on the "work" of an unaccredited Christian university in the United States. The claims made regarding the geological features claimed to have been found are widely questioned. This isn't difficult knowledge to access, it's on the Wikipedia page for the site.
Dunno if it's a Brit thing or a Simon thing, but the way he says "Sodom" makes me think of Thomas the Tank Engine's Island of Sodor. I'm used to hearing it pronounced more like "Sod 'em"
Does ground pen radar work for the Saharan Desert or really what im implying is for Sand Dune Seas on Coastal regions isnt just the Sahara where desert meets the sea!
Eastern Roman occupation. I am fairly certain Simon has done videos on why Byzantine is incorrect as it is not what the Eastern Romans called themselves.
From my Biblical knowledge: the soil itself was also cursed as a component to God's wrath against the sin of those cities. So also looking for a place that cannot bear any form of plant life would be one way to narrow down the location of either sodam or gamorrah.
If any truth is held in that claim it's most likely that the land was salted by humans, a feature that would no longer hold bearing on the fertility of the soil and thus irrelevant (aside from perhaps proving the salting through the soil record).
Wasn't there a bunch of salt found in the area as well (the last place in the video)? I think there was a theory that the airburst threw up tons of saltwater from the sea, which then rained over the area...?
@@cropduster123 you do realize that salting the earth can be figurative right? It refers to making it unusable for crops or grazing, something that can be done with many substances and methods not just salt, right?
The story of David has another thing going for it. A medical condition exists, although rare, which produces a growth disorder where the person can easily die if hit in the head with a rock causing the tumor to rupture. A Shepard would also most likely be very good with a sling, because it was a popular, common, and cheap weapon that was used for small game while tending his sheep.
Jews and Christians often conclude that when a location from the bible is discovered, the whole bible must be true. In that case the Arthur saga and for instance Dan Browns book are all real. No religion without gullibility
"He didn't really feed 5,000 people with a couple of fish did he?" Me, "Why not?" Bible says in three different places they started out only having 3 loaves and 5 fishes, but after feeding the 5,000 people it says there were exactly 12 baskets of fishes and loaves left over. No matter how you want to claim it didn't happen, in the end after everyone ate there was a dozen times more leftovers than there was food to start with. That level of detail sounds like a real event to me.
"2000 degrees Celsius, which is a lot of Fahrenheit" is just too perfect.
I double checked, and yeah, he's right. It is.
True statement.
My favorite factoid of the episode!
Best way to convert to imperial
"i'm not googling it again..."
If I’m wandering around the Middle East in 1000 BC, and I see the city of Sodom getting destroyed by fire from the sky, and then I meet a dude who says “I used to live there, but my uncle‘s God spoke to him and warned me to leave,“ I’m followingthat dude’s religion.
That's how you end up following an evil volcano god
Butt stuff?
@@kiriuxeosa8716 No, that city's "sin" was an allegory for being hostile to foreigners
@@BaronVonQuiplyno.. it was about sexual immorality.. are you serious rn?
@@huntergann938 Yes, of course. The "hero" of the story tries to assist the R*** of his daughers and then pretends to be so drunk that he didn't know who he was impregnating but still able to do so, it is clearly not about condemning immorality.
"It's a bit wild in there." Talk about the British knack for understatement!
A professor I had in Uni said that “City” was an Old Testament term for a settlement that had a wall, or otherwise protected.
It didn’t have a minimum population. Any of these “Cities” could have been a few dozen families, in 4-room homes, surrounded by an earthen burm. Anything like that could also have been weathered away over the centuries.
Then again, he was speculating.
In the UK a city is granted that status by the monarch and usually has a cathedral, university or both, and usually a large population. I imagine what each culture terms a “city” will be different.
My grandfather was a devout Christian who dreamed of visiting Biblical sites in the Middle East.
Before he died, one of his daughters (my aunt) made his dream a reality when the Christian college she was attending offered students and their families tours to Israel. He got to see the wailing wall, the Jordan river, Nazareth, and Bethleham. According to my aunt, he geeked out the entire time.
Lidar is rewriting history on the daily. It's a fantastic time to be an archeologist.
This can’t be emphasized enough! Enormous amounts of information are obtained at a relatively low cost and allowing for targeted excavations to answer specific questions while leaving other places intact for future archeologists with better technology.
I regret daily the decision not to go to graduate school and enter the workforce instead. I love remote sensing and all the courses I had, had just come back from Guatemala, and was thinking about collecting and processing LiDAR through jungle canopy. How to look for cities and ruins. Now I watch shows about it with my kids on TV.
The site of Tel Hammam on the Dead Sea has a strong case as the city of Sodom. The other primary site for consideration is on the south end of the Dead Sea, where there are chunks of sulfur in the area.
I don’t know who did the research on this, but no one is seriously considering sites in Syria. The biblical description of the location makes it easy to find the general area and the tels in the area narrow it down further. Tel El Hammam has a really strong case for the site; pottery dating, destruction layer, city size, surface sulfur deposits in the region, biblical description, etc.
Don't forget about the city of Gomorrah which suffered the same fate. It would have to be in the same area. The possibility that one site is Sodom and the other Gomorrah is good, but not yet definite. As for the Air burst, insurance companies would call it an act of God, so why not "Propeller Heads"
Watch Expedition Bible's video where he refutes quite well the Tel El Hammam's case. Mostly, it's because the Bible says that Sodom was on the southern part of the Dead Sea and south of Jerusalem while Hammam is north. Then near the southern coast you have five archeological cities from the bronze age (the time of the Genesis), four of which were destroyed with a fire caused by ignited sulfur balls (there's a layer of ash and sulfur balls still litter the ground there), like what happened in the Bible, and left uninhabited since then. However, the fifth city wasn't destroyed and was still inhabited millennia later. This last city appears on a Byzantine map in a church in Jordan, as named Zoora (as well as in other earlier and later references), which is believed to be the city of Zoar, to where Lot and his daughters escaped before the destruction of Sodom.
Also, on a hills close to these plain cities, there's the archeological site of a church built to enclosure and honour a cave that has pottery from several eras, but most importantly, bronze age pottery. So, tradition clearly thought this was the cave that Lot and his daughters lived in after leaving Zoar.
A meteor would certainly seem like divine retribution to people who don't understand it
I was thinking the same thing. Hell, even today people would think of it as divine retribution. Because seriously? That's some bad luck on a cosmic scale.
@@xLoLRaven Yeah. No one (or at least, hardly anyone) would claim that divine retribution necessarily has to be something impossible. A meteor strike wiping out a city would do just fine even if the scientists can point to the exact part of the sky it originated from.
Ziglag: "If you perform a quick Google search on our next entry chances are you'll find...." Ziglag found, Ziglag discovered, etc.
Sodom: "If you perform a quick Google search on our next entry...." Erm... probably best to stick to Ziglag.
Well Sodem!
There are many comments disparaging subjects and places discussed in this clip, but archaeological research has verified several items within the Bible. As is the case with many ancient writing purporting to be historical, certain things are likely to be true while others are exagerated or wrong.....Not too long ago inscriptions were found referring to a person as belonging to the House of David. This archeological find was the first known reference to David outside of the Bible. In addition, whether he was a divine personage or not, historians and archeologists express the consensus of opinion Jesus did exist.
Maybe a historical person named Jesus existed but not the Jesus of the Bible. Not the one who performed miracles. No he didn't exist and most biblical scholars agree on that point and have stopped trying to prove it.
@@GreedybeatsGGP Simon has an interesting clip discussing this. The consensus is he did exist, that he was crucified and that he did found the movement that eventually lead to the many variations of Christianity.
@@BobB-w4q So what... Still did not walk on water, multiplied food and healed people by rubbing mud in their face ... Just because a crazy street preacher was maybe real, your magical BS is not also automatically true 🤣 That is not how anything works
The consensus of historians is that they dont want to damage the credibility of their entire profession by admitting the truth. The evidence for a historical Jesus can be researched in a few minutes, it doesnt require abrogating your judgment to "experts". Bart Ehrman says the best evidence for a historical Jesus is the fact he was crucified, and the Jews wouldnt have invented a messiah that was weak and pathetic like this. But if they invented a warrior king messiah, everyone could see such a figure had not existed. Jesus was invented by the Romans to pacify the Jews and it eventually swallowed their empire as well.
@@GreedybeatsGGP `Rather, a historical person named Yeshua ben Yosef
"... is a LOT of Fahrenheit." floored me - lmao.
It would be fascinating to find Sodom & Gomorrah... though it may be a bit salty...
They've already found Sodom & Gomorrah, brother. ua-cam.com/video/QjPcSQUY2W0/v-deo.htmlsi=txSXDXuxBYjPQRh0
😂 You’re a bit salty…🤪
Sodom and Gomorrah have been found near the 5 city of the plains sandwiched between Jordan and Israel.
Take it with a pinch of Lot's wife.
@@mmerkley402 😂😂
If only the DeLorian wasn't destroyed 😢 The flex capacitor was Gods gift.
Loved the cheeky name drop for Decoding the Unknown there, well done Factboi
SP - CITIES
0:45 - Chapter 1 - Akkad
7:00 - Chapter 2 - Bethsaida
12:50 - Chapter 3 - Ziklag
20:40 - Chapter 4 - Sodom
I don't know what Bible Mr. Summerfield was reading but he jacked up the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham did not live in either city. Lot did. Somehow after his separation from Abraham, he lost all of his flocks and servants.
I feel like it's a bit of a weird simplification in order to not have to explain that Abraham did the bargaining while Lot was the one living in the city. It got the point of the story across, but it did fall a bit weird.
Also, and to be honest they could've bothered mentioning this, Lot's wife looking back is very easily interpreted (I don't remember if this is outright said or not in the text) as longing back to the city, hence the punishment.
Bethesaida glitching out of the map would be very in keeping with Bethesda games tradition 😂
I recommend the History with Cy channel for more details on early Sumeria and the Akkadian empire
Someone mention Mesopotamia and the cradle of civilisation? I'm your huckleberry! Good evening from Erbil, Kurdistan Iraq folks.
The history of the region is fascinating
Whoa, never been so early to a Whistler vid! :D
Fact Boi is looking strong in his new shirt.
The bronze age collapse occurred around the 12th century BC. So, dating anything between then and the 9th century is messy.
9:00 Furlongs weren't in the Bible; they're just the units English Bibles replaced scriptural Gk stadion with... which varied fr~0.75-1.04 furlongs long.
11:20 that is 100% Sylvester Stallone.
I was thinking the same thing!
Lidar is pretty awesome.
Attention factsboi writers: decimate means reduce by a tenth! Obliterate or devastate might be a better choice...
In the same way that describing someone as gay means something entirely different to what it did 60 years ago. The meaning of words can and do change over time.
@07:25 No only did jesus feed the 5000 with the miracle of the loaves and the fishes, he also invented the filet-o-fish sandwich!
And even got the (second) most powerful man in the universe to feed it through the golden rainbowed serving hatch! 😇😈😱
I heard the wine was watered down
damn thats a lot of freedom units right there
Wow that’s got to be a Hit to Lot’s daughters’ self-esteem
Very detailed explanation thank you for sharing
Who cares if it's the biblical city or not. Its still an incredibly cool archeological discovery. Get a room full of experts and ask them if water is wet and you'll get a room full of different answers.
It would kinda be a shame if any of these were under a current oil well and the result is, "Oops we drilled through a historical site."
I do believe it makes sense to generally assume that the cities in the Bible have once existed. After all, these stories were told and written down for people who also lived in the area, who could go visit these areas and might want to do so, and using existing cities would ground even the most fantastical stories about Jesus in a recognizable bedrock. For the people hearing the apostles tell these stories, there would have been a ring of falsehood to the whole thing if they mentioned a city which nobody has ever heard of because the apostle just made it up.
Like, you can just pick a real existing city and then spin a yarn. The story doesn't need to be true. But if you want people to believe it, setting your story in the city of Lulu which nobody has ever heard of is just not smart.
To get to the bottom of this we really need to get Jones Sr and Jr on it.
Super wonderful introduction of historical stories from Biblica
Now Kai needs a green shirt with question marks on it! 😊
We're almost done over building ancient sites, bombing the bajeezus out of them, rebuilding, and repeating. That we find anything is astonishing.
But, starting in the region of Ararat......and following the Tigris and Euphrates....... Something was something for sure.
As soon as he said "Nimrod" I heard Beavis and Butthead chuckling.
21:20 The heathen practices of the '60s were pretty goddamn tame.
To think of the chances of a meteorite even hitting land today, when we have built sprawling cities with dense populations across every corner of the globe and for it to have devastating effects is so infinitesimally so small... Now imagine how unlucky were they to be hit even in biblical times.
What's interesting about Tel al-Hammam is that it is only about 10 miles north of the Dead Sea, the location where Jewish oral tradition says is where Lot's wife was turned to salt.
There's actually a good deal of speculation that the priest (different religion) king Melchizedek mentioned in the bible was actually the King of Sodom, but this was changed by scribes later to be the city of Shalem, as Sodom had become known as a place of debauchery and Melchizedek ended up being portrayed more favorably.
(It's also speculated that originally, Sodom was portrayed more as a place that just didn't offer hospitality to Christians and later morphed into how we know it today over time, retellings, and retranslations. The modern interpretation is probably more medieval fan fiction, than historical fact.)
Sodom & Gomorrah were rebuilt in sw Nevada not far from Area 51. There’s a pillar of salt outside the fence.
A lot of modern day cities sit on the sites of old cities. They even have a word for it in the middle east. It's called a Tel as in Tel Aviv. The tel is the mound of older cities and the current city is the last part. So Tel Aviv is actually a mount of old cities under Aviv.
Thus Tel Alie is usually a current or former city of political headquarters. 🤔😱😈
Cities became difficult to identify after shop owners were expelled for selling Jesus t-shirts, novelty figurines and Air-Messiah sandals.
Yep, and most of the locals took off to "Follow the Shoe!"
My family prefers to be Followers of the Gourd.
@@bmyers7078 Your lot are just very naughty boys!!! 😈
With the airburst thing, with so much heat, perhaps lot's wife wasn't turned to salt for looking back, but instantaneously charred because she'd fallen behind and was caught in the open when the initial heat flash hit?
Watching from Australia prior 2020. Have always looked for your different channels and new videos. I’m not sure why but in the last year I’ve noticed I’m not stimulated as I used to be by your channels. Unfortunately I think that you may have spoken with more passion in the early days and now it feels like a rant report at times. Still quality but something is missing.. either way good work and hope I realign with what I used to enjoy from you. Be well and safe. 😊
@Adam, 'Decimated' doesn't mean annihilated or destroyed, it literally means to eliminate 1/10th or something. It's from the word 'decimal' which means '1/10th'. Decimation was a Roman military punishment for large groups of soldiers. They would divide into groups of 10 and draw lots. One unlucky person would draw the bad lot and be beaten to death by the other nine, thus eliminating 1/10th of the soldiers.
😱
That is the origin of the word, yes, but in current usage it is used to mean that a large portion of a population/thing has been destroyed, as evidenced by that being the definition of the word in current dictionaries.
In modern military studies, a loss of 5% or more can result in 50% loss in battlefield success.
10% basically makes shattered, worthless units.
Morale is a tricky thing.
That might be the original Latin definition of decimated, but it is not the definition in modern English.
Maybe the 5000 was fed with a whale? ....
With Bethsaida, chances are high that one's the one referenced by FJ and the other the one referenced in the Onomastica (i.e. the Byzantines got it wrong, seemingly).
Sodom was supposedly the border of the Promised Land. Tell El Hamman being east of the Jordan river which was the border of the Promised Land makes it not the site. Some hills called Jebel Usdum in Arabic is on the southwest shore of the Dead Sea. It is likely near where Usdum or Sodom used to be.
Also Simon. What a transformation, you handsome devil.
Im sure 4000 yrs from now, they wont be able to find New Orleans.
Abraham never lived in the city but on the opposite side of the Jordan River.
Sargon sounds a lot like Moses. Found in a river, raised by a king, and ended up overthrowing the king.
Ungrateful little jerk!
And Perseus too
Fall of Civilizations channel has a great video on Sumeria/Akkad. If you have a few hours it is a great listen
SIMON: I have a great idea for Mega/Side/Whatever Project. Call this a test to see if you respond. There would be A LOT of math involved, astronomy, and billions of years.
The Bible doesn't say Abraham was in Sodom with Lot. They had split and went separate ways before Lot went to Sodom.
So... the next time I see a "large" chick named Beth... should I tell her she was named after a house? 😁🤣
@@DrFiero yes
How do you say “brick house” in Hebrew?
@@StrongDreamsWaitHere why would you need to know that
Great video! I had the opportunity to go to Bethlehem some years ago during happier times. We crossed the border on foot from Jordan and a few days later went into West Bank. I went to see where Jesus of Nazareth was allegedly born (site of the Church of the Nativity), I wonder what the evidence is to place this as the exact location?
Garfinkle, wonderful name 😊😅❤
None because they have all been bulldozed.
More likely built on like Troy.
I wonder why so many legendary figures were put into baskets on the river. Seems like one of those power-memes, just like a flood or the fight between good and evil. I think this one has lost quite a bit of meaning in modern times though. I just don't understand why I should care if they were abandoned by their parents or not.
See Fall of Civilizations for a lengthy accounting of the fall of the Sumerians.
"I find your lack of faith disturbing"
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Sargon is also known for being a radical centrist
Abraham was the one that bargained with the third man, God, who stayed behind for a bit. Lot was the one that lived there and was at the gates when the two messengers arrived. The two parted ways prior to Sodom's destruction.
And archeologists also haven't found Cinderella's castle yet.
I've seen it. It's in Disney World.
@@Rydonattelo Then Cinderella *must* be real.😉
@@desperadox7565 The castle certainly is. I'm pretty sure I've seen her walking around Magic Kingdom 😁
the use of Furlong isnt out of fashion and we can still measure it... its used in horse racing..
I don't know who you have writing for this channel, I hope it's not any of the writers I'm familiar with from your other channels. Tel El Hammam is an archaeological site, but the claims of it being the possible site of Sodom are based solely on the "work" of an unaccredited Christian university in the United States. The claims made regarding the geological features claimed to have been found are widely questioned. This isn't difficult knowledge to access, it's on the Wikipedia page for the site.
Oh shit jerusalum where they crushed the cowad Hamas
go figure that the genocide denier has fans like this
His daughters were a fair Lot
Sadly we don't really know if we discovered biblical cities, because there are little or no evidence if they are the real deal.
Carl Benjamin, the Lotus eater…..
Dunno if it's a Brit thing or a Simon thing, but the way he says "Sodom" makes me think of Thomas the Tank Engine's Island of Sodor. I'm used to hearing it pronounced more like "Sod 'em"
15:43 David, Davy, Dave. Are any of them real? It's possible he's just a really lazy vampire. A guy like that has got to have some stories to tell.
Kind of like the story of Hi(pronounced heh).
Is he related to Art Garfinkel??? 🤣🤣
Now I'm super curious to know how Simon pronounces 'sodomy' 😂
Does ground pen radar work for the Saharan Desert or really what im implying is for Sand Dune Seas on Coastal regions isnt just the Sahara where desert meets the sea!
Forgot the stone with the house of David Mentioned on it
Eastern Roman occupation. I am fairly certain Simon has done videos on why Byzantine is incorrect as it is not what the Eastern Romans called themselves.
Ultimate work of fiction
4:47 Looking at that map I can see the problem…most men cannot even find the location of Sippar…😊
I’ll see myself out…😂😂
BEHOLD!
I HAVE DISCOVERED!
DOUBLE ZIGLAG!!!!
GIVE ME MONEY!
Devils left without knowing
From my Biblical knowledge: the soil itself was also cursed as a component to God's wrath against the sin of those cities.
So also looking for a place that cannot bear any form of plant life would be one way to narrow down the location of either sodam or gamorrah.
If any truth is held in that claim it's most likely that the land was salted by humans, a feature that would no longer hold bearing on the fertility of the soil and thus irrelevant (aside from perhaps proving the salting through the soil record).
Wasn't there a bunch of salt found in the area as well (the last place in the video)? I think there was a theory that the airburst threw up tons of saltwater from the sea, which then rained over the area...?
No one is wasting salt back then, by pouring all over the ground. It was far , far to expensive to waste like that...
@@cropduster123 you do realize that salting the earth can be figurative right?
It refers to making it unusable for crops or grazing, something that can be done with many substances and methods not just salt, right?
@@BadGamer- Yep. Can't you just see the squadrons of God's Angels dropping their loads of Agent Orange over his enemies! 🤔🙄
What is everyone talking about? I just woke up .
NimRod, Descendent of Noah, Really? Everyone after Noah was HIS descendants. To whoever wrote your script, Read the story about Noah.
Well done. More fun than most youtube takes on biblical archeology.
Yes, He did 😁
The story of David has another thing going for it. A medical condition exists, although rare, which produces a growth disorder where the person can easily die if hit in the head with a rock causing the tumor to rupture. A Shepard would also most likely be very good with a sling, because it was a popular, common, and cheap weapon that was used for small game while tending his sheep.
Less Solomon more Gamora
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Stop saying Sow-Dom. So (short o)-dom
Jews and Christians often conclude that when a location from the bible is discovered, the whole bible must be true.
In that case the Arthur saga and for instance Dan Browns book are all real.
No religion without gullibility
Just want to point out that Christians very much believe in a God capable of the supernatural.
"He didn't really feed 5,000 people with a couple of fish did he?" Me, "Why not?" Bible says in three different places they started out only having 3 loaves and 5 fishes, but after feeding the 5,000 people it says there were exactly 12 baskets of fishes and loaves left over. No matter how you want to claim it didn't happen, in the end after everyone ate there was a dozen times more leftovers than there was food to start with. That level of detail sounds like a real event to me.
I can accept they simply had more food, I refuse a miracle.
Yes Jesus really did feed all those people