Ancient Languages of the Middle East
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2014
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CORRECTION: They were called "Israelites," not "Israelis." Israeli refers to the modern country, while Israelite refers to the ancient ethnic group.
Reviewing your years old videos? Interestingly enough, this video popped up into my recommended ones. I wonder if you commenting on your own video, years later, prompted that.
Xidnaf yeah and they are different people and that is palestain not israeli
did you forget about Arabic in the second part? WTF
You mean today in English they are called Israelites. Back then of course there was no English and in Hebrew they were called... well, depends who we're talking about since it's probably not like the Bible says it was. But for the inhabitants of the kingdom of Israel, the Hebrew word was probably the same as the word for Israeli citizens today, Yiśraˀelim.
the Israelites were a tribe of the Canaanites, they were north-western Arabs of the Arabic Peninsula. The Israelites got their name in the Bible by Israel how is actually Jacob and his 12 sons. But that is fairy tale of course. The fact is, that there is no Hebrew or Jewish People, but there was the city-state of Hebron in the land of Canaan and some Canaanites have had the Judaism as their faith and some were polytheists.
I am an Assyrian.. I speak Neo-Aramaic fluently!
It's awesome that your ethnic group has survived since the ancient times
prays for you
Does that mean that me being “Arab” I’m probably not “Arab” but one or probably more than one of those ethnic groups
Nash NN Referring to Israel as “a stupid piece of land” shows that you are completely uneducated in the most fundamental basics of the matter of the conflict
Nash NN so you believe that Hitler was a hardcore Christian? Oh and also Jews were involved in killing Jesus as well
Proud to be Aramean and speak Aramaic ❤️ ܐܠܗܐ ܢܢܛܪܟܘܢ
shlomo ahuno!
Assyrian* Did you not just hear what he said in 3:50? Arameans are long gone just like everyother group EXCEPT Assyrians.
BINA, LAND W SUROYO FOREVER
@@anotheraccount2576 that not what genatic said tho
Gentaic search about middle east found that most of syrian related to the Aramens and most of iraqis related to assyrian
And there are a difference between the DNA for both of syrian and Iraqi even tho they look similer to each other.
The weird thing that assyrian them self speak eastern syriac (Aramaic root) even tho the Aramens should've speak assyrian or akkidan.
They litterey been counqerdd And there counqer spokr there tong instead of the opsite due to the fact that Aramaic had very storng, easy alphabet wich make it the most spoken language in entire assyria.
Its the same thing about romance language.
Just because Franceh and Spain and purtgal speak language that rooted in Latin dosnt make them Latin, they are mostly celtic pepole or at least what some genatic search found.
Beautiful language
Amazingly Assyrian is still spoken...
My friend speaks it as his first language...
ippos_khloros Actually, it'called Assyrian Neo-Aramaic.... but in Iran it's called "Ashuri"
ippos_khloros of course it's different from original Assyrian language, as is my current language from original Persian !
Original Persian language went extinct by the Arab invasion... but we still call our language Persian even if it has been heavily modified !
Iranian Ashuris still consider their homeland northern Iraq, especially the city of Nineveh.
I speak Aramaic too, i'm an Aramean-Syriac
Neema Paxima I can speak it as well 😊
Yeah, most native semitic languages and are now dying out because of the Arab invasions. The only reason Hebrew is going strong now is because the Israelis reasserted their independence
I wish you had touched more on the subject of how the Akkadian and Sumerian langauges afflicted eachother. Such as: the reason we even know Sumerian is because Akkadians took a liking to Cuneiform, and made their equivalent to the rosettastone, the Behistun inscriptions. How early in sumeriology, people assumed Sumerian was just a dialect of Akkadian, and that cuneiform was an Akkadian invention. It took a while for people to realize they where looking at a completely new language isolate. But great video! I am loving this channel. Great for us "people who are interested in linguistics but aren't linguists".
There's a video about the history of the sumerians by Paul Cooper. It incorporates some linguistic information about them.
The people who wrote the Behistun inscriptions weren't the Akkadians, but the Persians. Pretty sure it was Darius I who wrote it (or commissioned it).
Isn't the two most spoken semitic languages Arabic and Amharic?
23:21 Yeah, but this is supposed to be about the Middle East. Maybe he made a mistake, but that's why I thought he said that.
That doesn't mean that he hasn't given false information. Xidnaf himself stated that the two biggest semetic languages were Arabic and Hebrew. He didn't specify that the two biggest middle eastern ones were Hebrew and Arabic. Therefore, he is still guilty of miseducation.
Well they are the biggest in terms of importance.
hussami khaldoun not a "plastic" language, it's a revived language
Bible says and it started in the beginning that first Adam and Eve in about six thousand years I go they lived. And there's actually a book read the Bible. Then you won't have to be so confused about what you're doing and what happened. And it says in the beginning God read Genesis bereshit
One correction: we do have seals and coins with Hebrew writing that date from the 1st Temple period.
6:00
-_-
Some people just want to watch the world burn...
+Crick1952 I'm a guy of simple taste. I enjoy stick figures, talk bubbles, over-simplified maps. And you know the thing they have in common? They're cheap.
+Crick1952 I don't.
+Xidnaf So when are you going to have another video with information to shove into my brain via my earholes? Really enjoy your work.
Yup
True
When you say "the two big Semitic languages today are Hebrew and Arabic", you're forgetting that Amharic is Semitic language #2 by sheer number of speakers. Tigrinya (also spoken in Ethiopia) also has more speakers than Hebrew.
Maybe he meant the most known today
The most known by people who don't know very much about Semitic languages maybe :)
True, but most of the people don't have any particular knowledge in semetic languages and so, hebrew, being the language of the most sold book in the world is probaly is more known.
Maybe because Jews and Arabs have successfully preserved their respective cultures, as opposed to Arameans.
Jews really have not done a good job preserving our culture. Also, I think you're confusing Amharics with Arameans. Two totally different peoples and different languages.
A book that claims bread rained from the sky cannot be used as a reliable historical source.
John Smith Bread didn't RAIN from the sky. The ground became wet and somehow turned into manna.
John Smith It also claimed that the Jewish people wandered off in the desert, got fucked by the Babylonians, returned to Israel. It does have some reliability. Though, it can't be used as a primary source
John Smith Its called the Gospel, so it must be true!
John Smith Previously on "Taken out of Context"
***** ***** Magic = magic.
You should've mentioned how Syriac and other languages descended from the Aramaic language family are still living today.
I am glad that I've found at least one channel that focuses on linguistics!
I am Assyrian and I thoroughly enjoyed this
IRAQ!
+Diana Zaya im an iraqi jew
+Diana Zaya Is It similar to Arabic or Kurdish ? what is Assyrian language today?
+Banana MJZ I would say it is more similar to Arabic, and the languages do share a lot of words (:
+Banana MJZ There was no Kurds in the entire Middle-East, their DNA tracks to the area ''East Iran, Pakistan, India'' Central Asia in general. They're the newest people that migrated to the Middle-East, so are the Turks. Kurds of Iraq are currently ''Kurdifaction'' which means they're trying to change history, instead of saying Assyrian.. They say Christian Kurd or something in that direction.
Way to erase the Canaanites from history.
+Retro Gamer proto arabs, and he didnt he just didnt mention them by name because they had little effect on these changes considering they have a desert between them
+BARRR He didn't. He mentioned the pheonicians. Which is the greek name of the cana'anites.
compovi pheonicians and cana'anites are not the same
+killer97 Yes, they are.
compovi pheonicians are only a part of the larger canaanite people
I would also like to say your channel is incredibly interesting and it fuels my linguistic interests highly, as I share them with you. Languages always fascinate me greatly.
How amazing you have described this amount of information about this period of history in the very easy, simple and quick way!!! Wow!
بغض النظر عن طريقة عرضه لكن معلوماته مضللة وفيها تجاهل وتهميش كبير للغة العربية وأيضاً دعاية موجهة لتدعيم النظرة الصهيونية بالنسبة للتاريخ, وانظر إلى كم التعليقات التي تتسائل عن تجاهله للكنعانيين قبل ان يبدأ سرد روايتهم وأيضاً لأن الفترة هذه المنطقة تمتد لآلاف السنين فلا يمكن اغفالها .
The 2 biggest Semitic languages are Arabic and Amharic (in Ethiopia). Hebrew is the 3rd one.
Also, we know that some of the parts of the Bible are really really old, like from around 1000 B.C. or even older. The Hebrew language in those parts is quite different from the Hebrew in the most recent ones.
Anyway, nice video,
by number of native speakers Hebrew is probably the 4th after Tigrinya as well , number are close though.
javier arriaga garcia the bible is not that old for the reccord because the survivng so called original manuscripts go to 4th century BC we don't know the real old testament
Javier Arriaga García Yeah, but this is supposed to be about the Middle East. Maybe he made a mistake, but that's why I thought he said that.
yea but hebrew and arabic are the closest languages to the original , amaharic and tigriyan while they are semitic langauges and are big they have diverged from the routes further than hebrew and arabic
A semetic language is still a semetic language. We wouldn't fail to call to English a Germanic language despite its FIFTY PERCENT latin influence. This comes from an approximate twenty five percent direct latin influence and an approximate twenty five percent french influence due to french invasion.
I'm Aramean/Assyrian and I speak Aramaic
I'm Armenian. There was a time when your ancestors were the southern neighbors of my ancestors. Good times.
KURD MEANS STRONG! Persians. If you're Kurdish you should know this.
i am aramean!!!!!!!! Shlomo
Same
this is an incredibly interesting channel thank you for existing
Would it be possible to do a video exploring what we know of proto-afro-asiatic culture based on their linguistics, similar to what's been done for PIE? I think it'd be fascinating to have a point of comparison
... I love these videos. Especially the evolution of language and how they are interconnected. Can you please make a video about the evolution of curse words in english? I think that topic could grab people attention, but also give them a sense of understanding of where their frequently used vocabulary comes from. ^-^
welp looks like you got your wish
Okay, Cannanites... where are they?
palestinians
Ma Sa
The cananites are the -Israelis- Israelites and the Pheonicians.
Omaragorn
Palestinians are arabized Jews that converted to Islam .
Ma Sa here i am a Canaanite Palestinian , that my ancestors were jews and then became muslims now and yes we are occupied by zionists
lol why would u call urself a caananite palestinian? Ur a palestinian or arab period. Canaanite isnt relevant anymore..
I just love these videos! :) You're very informative, and what you talk about is very interesting. :D
I just happened to come across one of your videos yesterday and I was intrigued by it. I never looked much into linguistics but I enjoyed the video and now you even throw in a clip of Barats and Bereta? Now I'm here to stay.
Awesome as always! You've just made the really messy history easy to understand :)
Also, inb4 biblical literalists.
Do about Caucasus, it's very interesting place for language studying.
Always interesting! Glad to see the Israeli correction at the top because I was thinking that wasn't right, but as always it was very interesting! Keep it up!
Awesome! I've been looking forward to more of your videos
The entire Old Testament in only 40 seconds. Impressive. -I literally watched that one section three times.
Creation and Noah’s ark weren’t covered
Regardless of whether or not the Bible is a reliable source for objective history, it's gives us information on the cultural history.
Plus many other sources were religious. Gilgamesh, Illiad, Odyssey, Aeneid, et al.
It happens all throughout history, even in modern times.
people mostly just like to dismiss everything in the bible as fairy tales just because they aren't Christians, and assume that everything in it is made up an not credible
Texan Nationalist they do that probably after hearing that the earth is flat... You know, judging a book which literally says that as objective isn't that reliable...
@@texannationalist5887 a particular god who's a fake. A false story telling.
The stories in the torah or tanak have no origij reality no truth not history or facts in the least no truth. The events like flood of Noah and exodus are fiction mythos that reside at earliest ever in the iron age mid to late iron age truly.
*propaganda from a racist magic slumlord who steals land through deceit and genocide.. And is poorly plagiarized from a dozen older religions by Rome.
Your videos are so cool, Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Absolutely brilliant commentary.
I think you mean the Israelites rather than the Israelis.
+Mark Simons I think you had annotations turned off.
+BaconOfTheDarkSide Yes, those things are freaking annoying!
+Senorhysa Why are you so angry? Did your mother never hug you, or did your father hug you a bit too much?
Damnit. 4chan is leaking again.
***** i think we have found a troll
I'm really glad you made this vid. I can't wait for the Jewish languages one. Will you be covering Ladino and Yiddish in there also? I love the pic for skipping over 1,000 years. :-)
Yep! Languages like those will be the focus of a lot of the video :)
I really enjoy your videos! Can't wait to see some new content!
Such an awesome and impressive video! :D
Personally, I think the bible is most definitely an accurate historical book. For one, most archeologists in the early 20th century believed (and had decent proof) that the Hittites never existed and were faked; that is until they found all of their archeological stuff. In doing this, they actually found many documents (as the Hittites also recorded their history) that almost exactly mirrored the bibles account of the event, except just being their point of view. What I'm trying to say is, just because their is insufficient evidence for down thing, it doesn't mean it's wrong or untrue.
It's very wrong and untrue and you're mistaken on that. Hitties are all different to the čhetim of the Bible or Hebrew fiction. The findings as always disproved the bible.
Hittites writtings refute everything in the Bible early on. The Hittites weren't semitic as the bible lies about the Hittites are Indo European. And they warred with Egypt in the ancient Israel and Palestine lands. The existence of the philistines refutes the bible as do the canaanites in truth and does the True Babylonians and true Babylon and true Jerusalem and it's real canaanite and hebrew kings
we need more voices like you, Mr. Young
@@yaruqadishi8326I don't think the bible says Hittites are semitic. Technically, it says that they are descendants of Ham, but how does that exclude them from being considered to be Indo-European?
@@zfloyd1627 in the Middle East of the Levant in an area where they don't belong and it post antiquity world where they don't belong. The Bible or Hebrew bibles are understanding about history about the world around it is just phenomenally false and wrong
@@zfloyd1627 what did apparently does and it is clear on its subject that Hittites or whatever it's view is not hit tights but are Semitic people that were from some kind of weird lineage or from the Middle East when they are in fact from Anatolia contradictory to their fiction fantasy in Bible mythos fairy tales.
before israelites enter israel there was a people living there who built the earliest cities in the world (Jéricho 8000bc) why always ignore that and focus only on jewish people ??????????
+Tayeb Marfoua Many other ancient cities that are much much older than Jericho. Just info.
Ieva Brice Like what
There are different ages being mentioned for the ones I have in mind and no real proof. Mainstreem science dates them max 1000 BC etc..... so I doubt you would even consider them. But, then again, I may be wrong.
The Exodus is bullshit, the Israelites/Jews arose from the local Canaanites.
+Born2BWild and what makes you so certain about that?
Another great video, Ksidnoff :P
Interesting video. I can't wait for the next one.
Also inb4 flame war.
In showing where the Hausa live at 1:04, it's fun that you show a map that has the Mountains of Kong in it. Why the Mountains of Kong are interesting, I'll let you look up.
+Doug Hicton
Because they were on QI, obviously.
Connor Shea As I said, I'll let you look up the Mountains of Kong. I think you'll find it interesting.
Very good video as always! Are you planning on doing a video about Lojban someday? It seems it's a language you're quite familiar with and I would love to see how you present it :)
Juan Manuel Torres Yep, at some point, probably! No promises on when though, I have a lot of different ideas for videos. I'm glad you like my videos! :)
Woohoo! I'm excited for the next video!
Your channel is just brilliant.
You forgot sinaitic and Phoenician. Also, Akkad was originally a Sumerian city-state but it gradually became its own entity.
Why do so many people pronounce Semitic like semetic?
Just found out your channel. Love your stuff - it's great!
your vids are great, would love to see one about the slavan languages
I love the video. I do have a question, though - Isn't the correct term for pre-modern Hebrew people in what came to be the Roman province of Palestine "Israelites", not "Israelis"? As far as I've been made to understand, "Israelis" are Hebrew and non-Hebrew citizens of Israel, while Israelites are the ethnic group written about - accurately or not - in the Bible.
great video, but i would suggest that a better name be "the ancient semitic languages" rather than middle east, as that encompasses many indo-iranian languages, and some slavic languages if you want to be precise. its narrowing down a term which rightfully encompasses far more than what is covered in the video
I didn't even know linguistics was even a real thing. It actually sounds pretty interesting.
EDIT: I just subscribed!
Awesome video!
*Hears name Sargon of Akkad*
Wait, what? Why is Sargon in the middle east? What's going on?
Carl named himself after the Akkadian King "Sargon". You didn't know that?
Taelforlife I knew that, I was making a joke.
When I heard the name "Sargon of Akkad" I immediately thought of the youtuber, and not the historical figure.
+ThatZommy haha I thought this too. I had to do a double take
I'm deeply upset he took the name of a super important historical figure and caused many to associate it with all of the far right BS he gets up to.
Not sure if someone has told you yet, but Sargon didn't forcefully assimilate Sumerians. When the Akkadian Empire fell Sumer rose again as the Ur III Dynasty. It was in this period that Sumerian was phased out from immigration from Akkadian speaking regions. Another fun fact for the language nerds: the Sumerians called their land Ki-en-gi, the word Sumer is based on the Akkadian term Shumeru, which is most likely derived from the Semitic root for the word north. This suggests the Sumerians originally immigrated from a region north of Mesopotamia in pre-history, probably eastern Turkey or northeastern Iran.
*Sauron
talmud is pedophile
Gobekli tepe!!! They were the survivors of the great flood!!!!
I laughed so hard at the way you summarized biblical history...awesome video
This was very interesting. Thanks. :)
Interesting that you neglect to mention that amharic is the second largest semitic language not hebrew
"To what extent...?" Former IB student, perhaps?
Like all your videos this one was excellent! :)
just found this - great channel
Aramaic my language ♥
My language is Armenian! Isn't it a cool feeling to live in the 21st century as part of an ancient people?
nonosh Ofcourse it is :)
I am a Palestinian living in Germany and I want to study the ancient languages of Bilad ash-Sham (&) Canaan كنعان. Tell me, is your language or has it got similarities to the Palestinian today dialect? I could imagine words like zalame زلمه, sho شو, esh ايش, shlon شلون.
you are a damn syrian like you and me.
or maybe i suffer form ethnic identity crises
plz halp!
Not trying to disillusion you, but everyone is a part of an ancient people.
according to the Jewishl narrative, Shaoul (Saul) wasn't a bad king, he just got really jelious of David andthey had a fight before they made up. and Shaoul was actually succeded by his son, Ishva'al who was killed in battle before he could be officially corinated
@Yousef Ghaneemah Definitely not. There was no Palestine or Palestinians in those days. He was a Hebrew/Israelite/Jew.
@Yousef Ghaneemah I believe history and archeology. That's not to say Palestinians don't exist today - they do - but not 3000 years ago, when this took place. Jews have been living in the region for a lot longer.
@Yousef Ghaneemah Abimelech was a Phillistine, not a Palestinian. However, Palestinian is derived from the word 'Phillistine'. Phillistine means 'invader' in Hebrew. The Phillistines were foreigners.
@negro bsr agreed
@Yousef Ghaneemah you are anti-Semitic
want to know what anti-Semitise do they say people like Jesus and Abraham and Moses and albert einstein were Palestinians/arian
why? becuase it's removing Jewish history but I'll like to have your sources for these claims
בסופו של דבר אני אוהב אותך כבר! תודה רבה עבור הוידאו הזה שלך!
good job! thanks for video!
One thing to note: The oldest written Records we have (that I know of, anyway) are Ancient Egyptian, circa 6,000 BC. It begins with tribute markers in the Royal graveyard of Abydos.
No, it was in Mesopotamia
The bible should absolutely be considered as a reliable source for history
Oh PLEEEEESE lol
thebuddhistsocialist Roval Chadoms Yes, both of you, let the hate flow through you, it makes me stronger!
+Roval Chadoms Well sir, i fear not everyone may agree with your idea. In my opinion, the bible is, before a history book with real facts, a metaphysical book. Studying about creacionism, i realised that most of the biblical stories simply try to find answers to the reality of the hebrew people, without putting in it any effort to search for the reality of the facts or applying any rational thoughts on it. Obviosly, is what we should expect from ancients civilizations like the hebrews, but in my opinion, under those circumstances, you can't take the biblical stories as facts.
Yeah, it doesn't really matter whether or not one accepts it as a religious text, there's no reason not to accept it as a historical text on the same level as other historical texts. There is massive evidence that the Bible has changed very very little since it was written; it more than passes the standard tests for judging whether or not a historical work can be used as evidence. Obviously that doesn't prove whether or not it is 100% accurate any more than the Illiad and the Oddysey or other ancient works are considered 100% accurate. It simply says that it meets the minimum reliability requirements to be able to use it in supporting or arguing against a given thesis.
Oh, and we're talking about linguistic changes that we don't have records of. There's going to be some guesswork involved. It's inevitable. There will also be multiple interpretations of the evidence which all seem reasonable. So yeah, one group can say language X descended from Y with influence from Z in time frame A while conquered by B, and another can say that language Y descended from Z having conquered X and in a treaty with a and in a cold war with B while trying to stamp out the culture of C, and both groups may be equally correct; there may very well not be a consensus that can be reached if both conclusions are reasonable.
Hi Xidnaf! I love your videos, and appreciate you work so much, but, could you please speak just a little bit more slowly, because sometimes is almost impossible to catch words and sentences? I barely understand some parts. Keep up the good linguistical work! ;)
hi, nice work!
I found that arabic has two origins!
the spoken langauge came from the northen arabic spoken in some small kingdoms
the writting system came from those great civilisation ( in yeman in sheba for exemple)
the northe borrowed this awsome writting system ( wich would be developped even further )
and the southern (like sebeans, learned to speak arabic)
North as Levant.
nope the writing system was actually a derivative of the assyrian aramaic script. the south arabian yemeni peoples had their own writing systems and languages prior to the rise of islam which caused their admixture with northern arabian arabs
As a native Hebrew speaker, I find the Bible very interesting linguistically. I learned a lot about the evolution of Hebrew and its neighboring Semitic languages.
You sound very young for the quality of your work. I bet you're going to get bored once you start linguistics at whatever university.
Oh I was right, you're actually studying linguistics. Proud me!
I actually love your voice.
Good video, by the way!
Amharic is the 2nd Semitic language and it has more similarity with akedian than Arabic or Hebrew. And you are Jewish lol
Assyrians spoke Akkadian, and Aramaic
First akkadian then aramaic.
Aren't those both just names of cities? Akkad and Assur?
Charlie Kahn they are named after the language and god
Jam packed. Very good!
PS...Wow you really sped up at the end there and didn't trip up. Impressive.
The magic of editing!
1:21 CORRECTION Amharic is the 2nd largest, Semetic language.
But the video is about the middle eastern languages and Ethiopia is not in the middle east you are right tho
22,000,000 vs 9,000,000
@@marceltelang7825 there are 30million+ native amharic speakers and most Ethiopia(non amhara)speak amharic
@@enrico7474 Amharic is Spoken mostly by the Amharas who live in North West Ethiopia The rest speaks different languages
@@marceltelang7825 bruh wtf are u talking about i am a non amhara Ethiopian who can speak amharic fluently ,amharic is spoken literally every were we have different languages but most of us prefer speaking amharic i am better in amharic than my native language
The desert they lost on was Arabia? I thought it was Sinai desert!
me to
biblical places bible didn’t mention specifically where they lost
You are ammmazing!
Love your vids
I recently found your channel, very interesting and informative :)
Aramean here and I speak fluent Aramaic! Shlomo aleychun! We still exist!
love aramean bro's from iraqi arab
More about Hittite language. It was Indoeuropean, but took many words from the language that preceded it, now called Hattic (or Hattian). That language was either an isolate or related to Northwest Caucasian, or to Kartvelian languages. The name "Hatti" (or "Khatti") itself is form the Hattic.
im pretty sure that hatti is actually just hittite in hittite...
fun fact there is a theory of an older culture than ancient Sumeria which was somewhere on the east-central coastal side of the Arabian peninsula somewhere and that, this culture diverged to Sumeria in the north.
Fertile Crescent is the cradle of civilization ❤️❤️ , i still speak ARAMAIC ܐܳܪܳܡܳܝܳܐ 💛 ❤️
what
I really don't understand which part of what you said actually contradicted the Bible. If you're claiming that God's conversation with Abraham, can be found from archaeological evidence then that itself doesn't make sense, how can a conversation be found in this way? If you are talking about the existance of Abraham, one man, then again it seems kind of illogical to expect there to be archeological evidence of one man.
+AndThatIsOwnage Mostly I was talking about the whole exodus from Egypt part. From what I've read, it seems like if that had happened the ancient Israelis would have left behind evidence of the journey along the way, which we haven't found. Also, there isn't much evidence of the kind of violent invasion by the Israelites described in the book of Joshua.
I don't understand this particularly well myself, mostly I'm just repeating what appears to me to be the consensus among archeologists.
Xidnaf Yes, and did you know that this apparent consensues also has arguments against it? The Bible says the Isrealites were located in the East Nile Delta. It's not expected to find records of the Israelites there as records in the Delta are lacking in general, because papyrus records often cannot survive the humid climate it has.The East Delta is also lacking in Monuments and other ancient Egyptian remains because they were repeatedly recycled as building material, moved, leveled, and or/built over. In addition, the Egyptians did not usually memorialize humiliating defeats on their temple walls, only victories. Finally, the Egyptians generally referred to Semites as “Asiatics” rather than mentioning specific groups.
+AndThatIsOwnage I think the climate would play a role in a lack of archaeological evidence for the Exodus.
I would add that in a class I took on the Dead Sea Scrolls, we covered the content of the scrolls themselves, the possible owners/writers of the scrolls at the time they were written, as well as the context in which they were found and collected. That context is just prior to, during and just after the foundation of the modern state of Israel in the 1948 War, including some being confiscated under orders from Gen. Yigael Yadin, who conquered the Old City of Jerusalem and iirc Bethlehem during the 6-Day War. But I digress.
TL;DR... the archaeologists were so impressed with the condition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, because many of the first finds were preserved in jars from ~135 BCE-73CE and legible millenia later!
+Xidnaf I found this in in the Encyclopedia Britannica "The name Hebrew could also be related to the semi nomadic Habiru people, who are recorded in Egyptian inscriptions of the 13th and 12th centuries bce as having settled in Egypt." It seems there is some recent archaeological evidence, my history professor mentioned an inscription reading "the Hebrews have been crushed by Egypt" or something like that dating back to at least 800 B.C.
+Xidnaf Jeriho was discovered, and archaeologists believe that it's walls fell around the time they should have [hard to decide which emoticon to use, part of me would put an " :) " because it's cool that archaeology supports ancient religious texts and part of me would put an " :( " because one of the oldest cities was destroyed there]
0:44 Those two both begin in Proto so we can call those the Proto languages, and think those descended from a thing called Proto, as well as other languages that descended from a language that has Proto in its name. We can call those the Proto languages. There I created a new thing in linguistics now let's just wait for somebody to give information about this in books.
please do more videos about linguistics! I like it !
Please do also videos about the Asian languages.. please... :)
Sumerian is actually Semitic and Assyrians Babylonian, Aramaic Syriacs Akkadians. Chaldeans. They are Semitic.
Nope.
@Gabro Ego They only had two Semitic neighbors, and Xid just stated that the Akkadians and Sumerians had borrowed words from each other.
Sargon of Akkad has a different meaning now haha
شكرا علي الفيديو الجميل معلومات مفيدة حقا
I've watched this pair of videos like 5 times and they're still listed as unviewed. What even.
Hello, Xidnaf. Before I state my opinion on the topic which you mentioned in the end, let me say I love your videos. They're informative, and seem very impartial (this is made evident on how you've handle Jewish topics in your videos.) That's a rare quality in UA-camrs.
Nobody can claim something is false until they prove it to be so. In regards to the Torah and Bible, there is nothing that can bluntly be proved false (I know Noah's Ark is said to not have been possible due to the Moon's gravitational pull, but I've seen many credible arguments against such claims.) That said, it seems difficult to believe that the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years. However, the Egyptians rarely (if ever) recorded anything shameful to the Pharaoh. Also, due to the geography of the Red Sea, it was common for earthquakes to occur, which would allow drastic tidal swings. Therefore, the Israelites could have made it across on notably dry ground. Everything else stated within the Torah and Bible seems very believable up to the time when the Kingdom split into two and each were captured by Assyria/Babylon. Not to mention, a psalm (I want to say Psalm 83) prophesied that other nations would rise against Israel, and later (in Isaiah and Jeremiah) that the Israelites would be taken captive, yet return to the homeland and restore the Temple (historians have accurately recounted many dates for the Scriptural Books.) Jesus also predicted (Matthew/Luke) that the Temple would be destroyed, and one of the minor prophets stated that the Jews would be stricken "among the nations." However, it was predicted that, just like happened regarding the Assyrians and Babylonians, that the Jews would be brought back home to their original land (Micah/Amos). That is exactly what happened after WW2, in 1948. Also, it is mentioned that in the last days, nations from all sides (it says north, south, east and west specifically) would be at war against Israel.
All of that seems true regarding what the Torah/Bible state. So because everything seems valid (just because some parts may appear unbelievable, does not mean it is impossible) we can state that, yes, the Torah and Bible are reliable sources.
Thank you for allowing freedom of speech in your comments, Xidnaf. Keep up the great work with your videos.
I believe most of the bible stories actually did take place, but their scale and timing was hard to be traced by the time they were written down, making their the history incoherent. The might also be elements of stories borrowed from other nations' legends, or myths of gods rationalized as real human histories.
Yeah, the Bible is a historical document. People can (and have) argue all day about how much or which parts of the Bible are true, but there just isn't any valid reason to dismiss it as a baseless religious text.
Wow I've never seen comments on the validity of the Bible that is so objective and logical. People are always either "it's fairy tales" or "it's all true"..
I like this channel a lot, is it always all about languages or is it more about history? Can't wait for the next part!
Oh and also, the bible is, in no way shape or form, a reliable source of any kind of scientific material, be that history or physics (obvs.).
Oh one last thing, I really like that you encourage discussions like these, many don't, and to be honest, I enjoy watching these "fights".
Thanks, I'm glad you like my videos! To answer your question, I try to centre all of my videos around linguistics, but I often wind up getting into history as well.
Great!! That's actually what I was hoping for, because I haven't really found many videos about linguistics .
+Jean Al Aloosi Would you argue that a book (like the Old Testament) written by Isrealites many centuries BC, around the time many events took place, documenting their history through stories does not carry any merit of a historical source?
If it were religious scripts written by other groups of people during that time in history, say Egyptians or Hindus, would you not consider the history in those texts somewhat reliable? I mean it was written by the people about their history at the correct time period.
At 4:35, you say that there isn't any records of manuscripts written in a Hebrew language before the 4th century, B.C., but this hasn't been true for over a decade. The Khirbet Qeiyafa ostracon was discovered in 2010, and contains proto-Canaanite inscriptions dated to the 10th century B.C. There are multiple examples of linguistic similarities to Hebrew in the tablet that are not found in neighboring semetic languages.
You forgot to talk about Iranian languages e.g., Persian. Although the languages are PIE, they are still in middle east.
Duvel , Iran is more asian and culturally closer to India.
Z T WHAT? HAHAHA SAYS WHO? I find Indians very weird and different than Iranians. Indians share literally no similarities with Iranians.
No? Who said we are close to India? Why do people spread bullshit without supporting their stupid statements? We Iranians are close to caucasians and central Asian, linguistically and culturally. Not south Asians and not arabs
Duvel
Iranians are not middle eastern, we are an extension of caucasians
@@OfficialShadowKing they both are Aryan and have similar languages. And similar Gods like Zoroastrian and hindism are almost mirror paralells unlike the semitics to the West in the Arabian continent.
Process by that logic arabs are also an extension of the caucasians
I just love how people will say there is absolutely no evidence and they ignore the Bible as evidence in and of itself.
We have very old manuscripts that match up with the biblical text that we now have. These people lived far closer historically to what is in the Bible than we do. I think it's very possible these unnamed archaeological experts are incorrect.
bassmanjr100 true
No wrong and you play the child game here. You need medicine
Feels like watching a rock video that never has the music come up.