Babylonian Dreams of the Future | Dr. Irving Finkel

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hard to find academics who are both interesting and among the living. please share any other gems you may have discovered.

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A treasured historian of our day. ❤

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He reads his own books for the audiobook versions. The Ark Before Noah is 9 hours and The First Ghosts is almost 10 hours.

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Irving Finkle is our man, a hero of translating, and everything he talks about, is just so fascinating. (sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle)

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You would have ignored him and thought he was boring. Like your actual teachers. School is wasted on the young...

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NO I would not have! Although most teachers were terrible, the best ones did get the attention of people. Irving is one of the best ever! I love to listen to hi !

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Dr. Irving Finkel, A national treasure.

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I can’t think of a more exciting, fun and interesting career than the one Dr. Finkel has. I enjoyed my programming career, but Dr. Finkel’s career is simply better.

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Finkel is my idea of an 'intellectual'. He presents this fantastic history with clarity, and so much of it has been adopted and distorted, then presented in the Old Testament.

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Dr. Finkel...rockstar! I watch all of his online stuff. I can think of no one who would be more interesting to dine with.

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Totally fascinating. Dr. Finkel is a great researcher with a gift for teaching the educated public. THANK YOU! Made my day.

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Thanks for interviewing the almost magical Dr. Finkel.

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"The stars only came at night in Mesopotamia." 😂 Delightful! From Czechia, thank you so much!

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I must confess to having quite amazing dreams after watching Dr Finkel's talk.

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Love Dr Finkel

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Always a treat to hear from Finkel!

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Yay, a new Dr Finkel video! Immediate click and watch!

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I could listen to Dr. Finkel all day long. Fascinating topic!

[@cattymajiv]

Yes! ❤❤❤

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Irving was born to teach .........

[@cattymajiv]

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It’s a wonderful thing that these streams are available for free

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[@marmieRH]

Always happy to listen to Dr Finkel, big hugs from Québec ❤😊

[@Northcountry1926]

Oui !

[@brunnob3]

First Ghosts is such a delightful book 🎉❤

[@MrArthoz]

I hope this knowledge would reach Dr. Irving Finkel. The way they invoked "Father Mother" gods perhaps is a respecful title to address the supernatural. For example in our Malay culture when passing by dangerous or scary place people used to invoke "Datuk Nenek, cucu tumpang lalu" which translate: Grandfather Grandmother, this grandchild respectfully walk through. It is a humble way to speak while elevating the rank of one spoken to. For example Indonesian would greet elders in respect as Bapak (father) or Ibu (mother) regardless of any biological relationship. A honorific title of expressing respect and reverence.

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Oh my! This has made my day. We need to extract all his knowledge!

[@Northcountry1926]

Thanks!

[@davesky538]

Excellent!

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Thank you for this, so interesting.

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Thankyou for this 😸

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I want to see more videos with Dr. Finkel. Plz ask him if he is planning on writing an other fiction book in the future. I really loved reading his first one . Thank you

[@ArchaeologyNow]

It's our understanding that this is in the works!

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@@ArchaeologyNow that is great news 👍🏼

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Yay i love this guy!

[@Dmicroluv]

48:44 so.. In Babylon, King Nabonidus’ turn from Marduk to the moon god Sin was seen as a cause of the empire’s decline. Similarly, in the Old Testament, Israel’s and Judah’s destruction is attributed to abandoning Yahweh, highlighting the theological belief that loyalty to the deity ensures a nation’s stability.

[@loolylooly81]

Thanks very much for bringing Dr Finkle. Could Dr Finkle talk about religion skeptics in Mesopotamia, if there were at all?

[@andreitone]

Being naked physically corresponds to telling the truth spiritually. 'The naked truth'

[@NCR-Trooper2]

Oh my. Long time no see Mr. Finkel!

[@Northcountry1926]

Greetings from Canada 🇨🇦

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YES! Just in time!! LOVE

[@Green.Country.Agroforestry]

Thought: Star torch may be an apparatus designed to project a star map on the ceiling, enabling the ritual in daytime, in an enclosed room

[@OddLeah]

Probably a pierced clay vessel used as a lampshade of sorts.

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Thanks

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ANY podcaster hosting the good Dr. Finkel gets my instant like and subscribe :)

[@bipolarminddroppings]

The Greek gods and heros liked a good prophetic dream, too. I assume that's an influence of mesopotamian literature from earlier times.

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I would give anything to watch a crime noir drama starring Dr. Finkel with Becky Lao as his sidekick....any Finkel and Lao movie really

[@ArchaeologyNow]

That is hilarious!

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Dr. Finkel is the coolest Assyriologist I know! Listening to him is awesome.

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I love this guy's talks. {:o:O:}

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Artificial intelligence harnessed to scan and translate cuneiform tables is an interesting idea.

[@windturbinesyndrome1067]

The British museum has huge drawers full of collections, mostly of arcane or boring stuff, but every once in a while a cuneiform tablet is said to give up huge historical treasure of info. So if they can find a way to scan and translate them faster and put together pieces broken off faster it should be a boon to the understanding of the incredible civilization.

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I can't wait! It will likely be the ONLY way in which AI will actually benefit any nomal people. Like always, the crooks and the rich are the only ones who will benefit from AI. It will just further wreck all the lives of all the rest of us. It should have been stopped long ago.

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Fantastic.

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Dr. should be on podcasts ,blink twice if youre a hostage =D

[@charles.e.g.]

I have been having all of these dreams recently where I am eating human flesh, but I have been at a loss as to what they mean. Now, thanks to the ancient Mesopotamians via Dr. Finkel, I now know that I will soon win the lottery. 🥳

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😂

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Me too 😮😂

[@charles.e.g.]

@@KarenHughes-f2t I feel like you are the ONLY person who understood my joke! 😂

[@andreitone]

Gilga is holding a mature lion, not a pup. Only mature lions have hair on their belly and around their neck and chest. This means Gilga was 3-4 meters high.

[@cattymajiv]

True, and the sculpters then were extremely careful with what they depicted, including all the tiny details. They intended the lion for sure, and most probably intended a mature one on the arm of a giant.

[@danielpaulson8838]

So you treat this particular myth as historical?

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

I wonder if Dr. Finkel, or any of you know of Dr. Samuel Paley (RIP). I took a course in Biblical Hebrew in the 80's. He was the professor. I know that he did work on the library of Ashurbanipal. He couldn't actually go there as a Jew because he would have been killed.

[@FacesintheStone]

I do the best that I can. ❤ 5:45

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DR FINNKLE LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

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I just posted to farcebook saying 'new Finkel just dropped'

[@Akio-fy7ep]

I read of an early king who maintained four panels of seers, kept apart, and had them all give him advice independently. He discounted those that gave advice that didn't match any of the others. It seemed amazingly modern. But who was it?

[@theobolt250]

Someone gave Irvin's beard a nice touch up. Looks good on him. For the rest? Ahh, good times to hear him talking about Mesopotamian times of yore. Interesting how he un-magics the magic by just delving into it.

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Better late than never Brooklyn New York in the house 8 Days Later😅

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Amazing discoveries!!! Thank you!

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Great ❤❤❤

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Dude is ONB!

[@garyfrancis6193]

I agree at 9:37 everything was black and white in the past as we have the photos, movies and TV to prove it.

[@terrywallace5181]

Very interesting and informative.

[@bryn494]

If thou seizeth the iron whilst it is hot great wailings and misfortunes shall occur ;)

[@Amy-m9s]

When the gods communicated

[@garyfrancis6193]

I thought Santa got a side job. Actually I’m two years older than Irving. If we had been primary school together I would have stolen his hat and run away to make him cry. Missed opportunity.

[@JonathonPawelko]

I would like to know who he has educated in his work will be carrying on his legacy.

[@jacquiecotillard9699]

I missed the second half of the lecture, seems to have been cut off sadly

[@ArchaeologyNow]

Never fear. It's mounted on KZbin

[@Pidxr]

Don't burn coal indoors, kids #CO

[@LuDux]

Talk about ending lecture with the cliffhanger

[@bruceplenderleith838]

sounds like datura (32:57)

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23:00

[@mekoo94]

Prof Iriving could you please address the tree of life

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[@josephwurzer4366]

An interpreter of the lion. A Young lion biting at Gilgameshs arm/at its wrist. Cats lightly bite at the owner that they like showing affection. It’s a sign that the cats likely been raised by the human.

[@zachdawson5620]

Is there somewhere Finkel has spoken his opinion on Sitchen?

[@odiniskyvolk5167]

Anointing yourself before dreaming with herbs, this was a version of Christing before the Greeks influenced the Hebrews to use drugs for spirituality.

[@wuzgoanon9373]

The dream of walking in public with no clothing must certainly mean that one is very comfortable with their self-image.

[@Steven-z9s6h]

What do you mean you don’t know why? My baby lion is gnawing on my wrist right now while I watch this

[@jgfaulisi5162]

What is DR Finkel’s ydna haplogroup?

[@ramunaspovilanskas9944]

Is the term "mammoth" etymologically related to the Sumerian "mamu", i.e., a beast which comes from dreams?

[@RealUvane]

What’s the relation of ãmiru and Amarru and the Amorites?

[@me_josh]

What exactly is the anamiru plant name

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A charlatan like Graham Hancock gets more attention than a legend like Dr Finkel.

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Because ... The bigger the bullshit - the more Americans love it.

[@cattymajiv]

Exactly! Stutzbearcat has hit the nail right on the head!

[@seventen7195]

mantic dreams in babylonia

[@Alin_ho]

Wait!!! So you think a man had a lucid dream about building a temple? Yet, it's too hard to imagine the Egyptians using critical thinking skills to develop new tools after 2000 years?

[@brettcross9941]

Finkle is Einhorn!

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Ciao

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You are now a neurolinguistic hacker

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Miru ana, ha

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analytical interpretations

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Exposure

[@Amy-m9s]

And humans listened

[@Machine9000]

This was great! Ive recently come to fully understand the role of polypharmacia in ancient cultures. The hallucinogenic useage was through the roof. Everyone was foing a form of it. This is ancient healthcare, which over time became ritualized and over time became just prayer. 😂 If you have ears to hear, and you truly KNOW the role of an oracle beyond what's discussed in this video, its so evident that meds were being used for "sleep visions". Health care back then was weird. How do you make an antidote for a.snake bite? You take amslave girl, around the age of 6, provide her with daily microdoses of venoms, and when she reaches puberty, you drink her fluids, even her bath water. She was now a priestesses, a giver of life. From virgin to priestess. All those animal sacrifices. Why? Extraction of stem cells from bone marrow. Infuse animal growth hormones into the wombs of pregnant women. Imagine mixing mammoth growth hormones into a baby? You may grow an anunaki 😅 Its all weird healthcare. Revered, ritualized, abused, made illegal and hidden. All those women in ancient healthcarw industry got screwed by Constantine. They got burned at the stake. Oracles, priestesses, godesses and anyone else who insisted on practicing this form of healthcare.

[@cattymajiv]

An interesting thought anyway. Who knows though? There's no proof either way.

[@Machine9000]

@cattymajiv actually there are many greek documents addressing this topic in incredible detail. I cant read them personally but there are a very small.group of scholars doing it. Highly controversial.

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I still miss james randi.

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Finkel is the only good thing on your channel.

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You have deleted my comment.. not cool and very disappointing i thought your channel was a professional one.

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tubeU deleted your comment via an algorhythm not the channel owner. It's called censorship.

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​@@windturbinesyndrome1067it wasn't an offensive comment but rather complementary one sorry but your mistaken.

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What a waste

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Wonderful indeed!

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Thanks!

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Thanks!