Very well done! You're well spoken and the maps very helpful,... please do more! It would be great if this was required listening for all Christian churches. On another subject, the guy in the upper right corner, taking a nap.... LOL! I would like very much to be in on these talks,... fascinating subject!
FYI, I am just answering the question posed near the very end of the video. "Founding documents" there are more extra biblical (Christian Bible) documented attestations of Jesus Christ than anyone of that time period. There is a list of Roman and Greek historians who mention him. Far more than even I realized. Any credible historian admits today, that Jesus was a historical figure, and was crucified. That is attested by Atheist historians. The Church put December 25th as Jesus's birth not because they knew (they admitted that no one knew) when he was born, but because it was the time when light came back into the world. No need to add or assume. We have documentation by the Church (as they wrote everything down) that is the case. Enjoying the talks BTW very much. I am learning as much as possible about Judaism since my parents both passed. Finding out, at the end of their lives, was obvious all along. Thank you for your time.
""Founding documents" there are more extra biblical (Christian Bible) documented attestations of Jesus Christ than anyone of that time period." I'm an atheist who accepts Jesus existed as a man, but for reasons other that extra biblical writings. The earliest mentions we have of Jesus or Christians outside of the bible is from Josephus in 94 CE, Pliny the Younger in 111 CE, Tacitus in 116 CE, and Seutonius in 120 CE. That's a minimum of 60 years after he died. All of them only wrote a few lines about Jesus and Christians. There's much more written about Augustus, including by the historian Livy who was alive during Augustus' reign.
Herod the Great greatly expanded the Second Temple in the last century BCE, but he was expanding something that had initially been built centuries before.
It starts very good with flailing the British imperialist attitude of the Monty Python parody, but then it fails miserably by describing the Romans like people that came with Pax Romana, supporting the big business, etc.. I have an idea what that comes from: the Pharisees were upper class priviliged people, not communist Zealots. The Zealots went extinct at the Great Jewish Rebellion, while the Pharisees, with their pseudo-radicalism, spoke against rebellion, since they weren't the oppressed ones living in poverty because of the Roman exploitation. The lower class went extinct, so it is safe to forget them ...
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Very well done! You're well spoken and the maps very helpful,... please do more! It would be great if this was required listening for all Christian churches. On another subject, the guy in the upper right corner, taking a nap.... LOL! I would like very much to be in on these talks,... fascinating subject!
FYI, I am just answering the question posed near the very end of the video. "Founding documents" there are more extra biblical (Christian Bible) documented attestations of Jesus Christ than anyone of that time period. There is a list of Roman and Greek historians who mention him. Far more than even I realized. Any credible historian admits today, that Jesus was a historical figure, and was crucified. That is attested by Atheist historians. The Church put December 25th as Jesus's birth not because they knew (they admitted that no one knew) when he was born, but because it was the time when light came back into the world. No need to add or assume. We have documentation by the Church (as they wrote everything down) that is the case. Enjoying the talks BTW very much. I am learning as much as possible about Judaism since my parents both passed. Finding out, at the end of their lives, was obvious all along. Thank you for your time.
""Founding documents" there are more extra biblical (Christian Bible) documented attestations of Jesus Christ than anyone of that time period."
I'm an atheist who accepts Jesus existed as a man, but for reasons other that extra biblical writings. The earliest mentions we have of Jesus or Christians outside of the bible is from Josephus in 94 CE, Pliny the Younger in 111 CE, Tacitus in 116 CE, and Seutonius in 120 CE. That's a minimum of 60 years after he died. All of them only wrote a few lines about Jesus and Christians.
There's much more written about Augustus, including by the historian Livy who was alive during Augustus' reign.
Didn’t Herod built the second temple?
Herod the Great greatly expanded the Second Temple in the last century BCE, but he was expanding something that had initially been built centuries before.
Herod was the last Roman Emperor before christianity entered the chat 🧐
I just do not understand why Jesus became a thing at this time specifically…
It starts very good with flailing the British imperialist attitude of the Monty Python parody, but then it fails miserably by describing the Romans like people that came with Pax Romana, supporting the big business, etc.. I have an idea what that comes from: the Pharisees were upper class priviliged people, not communist Zealots. The Zealots went extinct at the Great Jewish Rebellion, while the Pharisees, with their pseudo-radicalism, spoke against rebellion, since they weren't the oppressed ones living in poverty because of the Roman exploitation. The lower class went extinct, so it is safe to forget them ...