Who were the Rephaim? Analysis of Ugaritic, Phoenician and Biblical Sources to Solve this Mystery

The Rephaim are among the attested but most mysterious entities mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, 30 times in 10 Books. But what were they? Ancient giants, kin of the famed Nephilim, the spirits of the kingly dead, supernatural physicians or something else entirely? This episode explores the Ugaritic, Phoenician and Biblical Sources to uncover the mystery.
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Recommended Readings:
Yogev - The Rephaim - 978-90-04-46085-0
Coogan, Smith - Stories from Ancient Canaan - 978-0664232429

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7:44 Who else is experiencing déjà vu while watching at this point

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Hello Dr. Sledge I wanted to know about the large circular stone at 3:10 I really like the design and was wondering if you could post a full picture or link to one.

[@cosmiccrunch8591]

It almost sounds like the Rephaim were a group (Order) of Illuminated human(oid?) beings who's true nature and aspirations became clouded by zealots of the time. Brill is a typical example of what's wrong with the world today. Everyone is out to get rich, only thinking about themselves and their clique. Knowledge is priceless and in that regard it should be equally accessible to everyone who aspires to know more. I mean, it's only ink, paper and publicly accessible content. If Brill sold 100,000 copies at $100 they could most likely sell 1,000,000 copies at $30 and triple their profits in roughly the same timeframe, likely sooner. Monopolies on this kind of knowledge are of the most deplorable kind...

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

@@cosmiccrunch8591 I'm pretty sure they were just a myth, and to defend Brill their books are very high quality, absolutely not public domain material, and are mostly meant to be sold to libraries which do, in fact, make them very accessible. As much as I crap on them, I literally just check our Brill books all the time. It's that easy.

[@cosmiccrunch8591]

@@TheEsotericaChannel Good chance they were, but myths hold truths just beyond the grasp of common reason. If we could just revert temporarily to that primitive mindset... Yeah the example price I gave is not realistic when you consider the quality of the book and its contents. I didn't mean to write public domain, meant to write publicly accessible. I was referring to the work referencing publicly accessible content, but I may be wrong there too. I didn't realize they were mainly intended to be sold to libraries. Good point on the accessibility via libraries, hadn't considered that. It would still be nice if I could afford to actually own many of the books they've published.

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Dr. Sledge doesnt get enough credit for how hilarious and so on point perfect his jokes can be sometimes.

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Seriously. I had to pause while I laughed

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[@nathanielkingsbury6355]

Wow, that's really fascinating! I'm very glad that we've recovered those Ugaritic tablets. Thank you for your wonderful scholarship.

[@SupremeCatch22]

In modern English we still reference the hair of a dog in hangover cures. To take ‘the hair of the dog that bit you’ means to combat an alcohol induced hangover by drinking more alcohol (staying drunk). Fascinating that the association has such a long history.

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Yeah that's a trip, and I suspect many more sayings are similarly ancient and far removed from their origins.

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@@doomguy9049 where do you think the druids were from? 'Worshippers of the Grove' grove=asherah in Hebrew

[@jdvictor1921]

​@@mariussielckenAncient Canaan and Britain were (and are) separated by vast bodies of water; to suppose that one has a connection to the other beyond mere happenstance is whitewashing a lot of history and logic for... what, linguistic coincidence?

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Just added Stories from Ancient Canaan to my reading list! Thanks for the great intro to the topic.

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Just ordered Stories From Ancient Canaan because of this episode. Such a fascinating time and area of the world. Love your channel so much! :D

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Can I just say, I’ve been watching Dr. Sledge’s videos and I’m amazed at how much knowledge he has! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and insight in a way that I can understand.

[@seamuscollins9708]

This is very fascinating. I wonder whether the narrative of the 'fallen ones' and their 'relationships' with human women may refer to actual historical events, as in that case they must have been humans themselves in order to produce offspring? Average stature for men has increased about 4.3" since the mid 1800s in some places, and presumably even more so compared to ancient times. If that were the case then any 'tribe' of people of around 6' or more may very well have been seen as 'giants'. Thank you very much for making such high quality material available to us.

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@Seamus Collins: They were said to be 30 cubits in height 🤝

[@Alcantra1]

You may want to research the Annunaki connection to the Nehphilim.. enjoy your journey down the rabbit hole 🐇

[@sd5919]

Bigfoot hair has been genetically tested and it has female DNA from this region with an as yet unknown origin for the father. According to many sightings bigfoot are giant psychic humans. The problem with reading the bible and other ancient sources as oppositional, like say whether the Rephaim were giant or not, is that scholars are working from remnant scraps. There was undoubtedly a lot of lost shared context. It would be like some future man reading a series of our e-mails and trying to deduce the entirety of the modern world's lived context. It would be impossible past a certain point. For instance, if they were doctors does that explain the ubiquitous 'bag' you see in relief carvings? Was it a medicine bag? People just want to hedge and not actually lend credence to ancient myths as having a possible basis in reality.

[@minngael]

There are also many cultures in which people (especially often nobility/royalty) are believed to be descendants of demigods or other mixtures between humans and non-human supernatural beings.

[@kylesty6728]

This was glorious. I wish I’d known about this when I was in Bible College. I would have been unbearable.

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Hehehe

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Great episode! I love learning about the divine court/Elohim- it unravels monotheism; which we definitely need to repair its historical and social harm. And, the further clarity of Satan’s origin is VERY important to de-demonize ways of knowing.

[@xaayer]

Wow! I was literally reading Numbers last week and encountered the Rephaim there and then my book on Ugaritic myths by Mark S. Smith arrived and I found out there was writing of the Rephaim in there and I found the link between them and the Nephilim (Just based on the similarities of the words, thats how I backtracked to rereading Numbers' entry on a Rephaim) and now your video? Glorious.

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How about numbers 21 verses 6 to 9?

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@@evans808274mc9la what about it?

[@daib0ok]

@xaayer maybe Evans is getting at the mending or healing idk... Seems numbers 16:2 would be covered more in these discussions but never is.

[@evans808274mc9la]

@@xaayer the brazen serpent. Check the Hebrew words for it and also the name of brass

[@xaayer]

@@evans808274mc9la I suppose that would tie to the question of them healing but I don't see a direct connection of the characters with that item

[@AGoddess]

I am so in love with this channel. You have no idea how long I have been searching about Canaan. Well two years lol. Not that long but finding good information that is affordable is hard to come across. Thank you for your insight on this subject. The Rephaim are fascinating to me. Is what you are saying - biblical writers took the Genesis account to “one fell swoop” contain all the semi divine beings into a story that demythologized and made them easier to conquer, but still formidable? TYYYYYYYY

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One thing that I love about videos like these is that it helps me understand Judaism better, to peel back the redactions that made the almighty look more like Zeus than El. I feel like it helps me practice better knowing the context of what I'm doing rather than it being just "Tradition". Your video on forbidden forms of magic for example aided me in knowing the bounds of my interest of divination. The main insight that I took from it was that it was forbidden to use divination that did not rely on G-d, or take the free will of others (Khover of Khever). It adds a clarity to torah that hasn't been present since the days of the davidic kings. Talmud and Mishna focused on preserving the law but not spirituality of Judaism to the point to where we borrowed afterlifes from the Greeks and Persians. Your explanation of the Rephaim shows what the world to come would have been to the earliest prophets, and perhaps what we should expect.

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[@kvelez]

0:59 Interesting. 3:22 Sounds interesting. 8:36 I see. 10:26 Curious. 11:25 Didn't know that. 12:17 Rephaim in the OT. 20:58 Rephaim in Sheol.

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[@kefo6666]

Very interesting because it gives another meaning to רוח רפאים - ruach rephaim - spirit of rephaim - ghosts

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

That's a more modern usage of the term.

[@EducatedVarangian]

The picture at 14:27 is a gypsum wall panel of Ashurbanipal chilling with his wife Libbali-Sharrat at the north palace in Nineveh, it's displayed in the Brittish museum. 1856,0909.53.

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I wish more of my university professors could lecture this well

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Any connection between old norse (not viking) mythology and Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, etc, mythology?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Not directly, aside from the shared inheritance of PIE religion with Hinudism.

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Such a good video! Thanks!

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I saw that today was April Fool’s day. I was worried that this video would have been a prank, but I’m glad it wasn’t! Such a fascinating subject matter, keep up the good work!

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Do you know why it is called April Fools Day? I recommend to know it. Welcome to the New Year!

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Hi I'm Troy from Sydney Australia I grew up with out a biblical studies So I'm looking for answers or just the truth about life and about death . Thank you for this very helpful knowledge.

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You might find some answers from the you tube channel mike winger

[@DneilB007]

Haven’t seen the episode yet, but the idea of the Rephaim translating as “The Doctors” has me giggling in geeky Galifreyan glee. Well of course they are dangerous and confusing!

[@Sarke2]

This is so interesting, enjoyed every second of this video, Rephaim from Ugarit reminds me on some later half god heroes like Hercules and the story of Rephaim from the bible who are living in Sheol reminds me on Titans who are dwelling in the underworld.

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It's not coincidental.

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I love watching your videos! I always learn something new. I’ve studied some near eastern mythology, and quite a lot of Hebrew Bible (though my Hebrew is rusty these days). I’m curious if you would be willing to do a video sometime on how you hold your study of the ancient world and your lived expression of faith. You present, at least, as an observant Jew so does knowing that the Hebrew Bible is an amalgamation of other near eastern myths impact your lived expression of faith? This is a genuine curiosity, and not meant to be an indictment! I’m just curious how scholars who are also religious manage to hold both are scholarship and the religiosity. Thank you for all that you do!

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I'm a Reconstructionist following the teachings of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, z"l, who rejected supernaturalism while retaining the importance of tradition. In short, it means that I take my religion very seriously while taking very little of it literally.

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Very cheeky in this episode. Very interesting as always

[@ACEnBEAKY]

It's like, when you learn about this stuff it questions yet reinforces religion at the same time, depending on the angle. We don't want to confuse ourselves, but at some point it should be looked into. In the end, all things will be revealed. Until then, kudos to you, sir, for presenting your findings in such a calm, inoffensive, articulate manner.

[@jackpayne4658]

The Rephaim irresistibly remind me of the Jotnar in Norse myths. Often translated as 'giants', Jackson Crawford suggests 'anti-gods' as more appropriate - they are seldom any bigger than their usual opponents, the Aesir (gods). There is a tangled history between the Aesir and the Jotnar - often enemies, but occasional allies or even sexual partners. Hel, the goddess of the non-heroic underworld, is the daughter of Loki and a 'giantess'. Of course, the Norse myths have no gravitational pull towards monotheism - which gives them a rather different flavour.

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yes!!!

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I've been down so many rabbit holes of every kind of story, I'm all the way back to Religious texts 🤣 It's been good. Who'd have guessed what would make "Bible" study interesting is pathological detail 👍🏻

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Said it more than once already. Your presentation and approach has great class. Appreciated again as well. TY for the dedication and scholarly research based approach. Mahe Ohna ✌️ Favour ALL

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🤘I love this guy. Well done, Justin!🤘

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I have been very appreciative of your channel. This vid is great! Best explanation I have ever gotten about the Rephaim. Thank you

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Man I love this channel thanks Justin.

[@richardknowles6287]

Dr Sledge, could the earlier understanding of the Rephahim be related to the word “Elohim”, the latter of which I’ve heard was originally used to denote the 70 children of El, of which Ba’al and Yahweh were members. “Elohim” is used in Genesis as well, but in a more ambiguous and seemingly contextless and contradictory way to denote a plurality of gods which is going in the wrong direction of a burgeoning monotheistic tradition and I’m guessing this is why we don’t hear this term much if at all later in the biblical texts.

[@stevenv6463]

I absolutely love Canaanite mythology. It's so fun. Also isn't this idea of giant heroes eerily similar to the ancient Greek idea of the titans?

[@sd5919]

I think the Greeks got the titans from Hittites actually so it's possibly the other way around. Also, Peter references Tartarus as the place the angels who sinned before the flood are imprisoned. If that cadre of angels made the 'gods' and demi-gods then they are the titans by analogy. Also, the titans being produced from the union of Uranus and Gaia implies the union of heaven and earth, which is quite literally what the giants were supposed to be. I think it's impossible to draw perfectly matching 1:1 relationships but the general outlines tend to be pretty consistent.

[@tamerllc4355]

Cadmus, the PHoenician prince who went looking for his sister, Europa landed in Greece and brought them the alphabet amongst other things, such as the religion of the Cabiris or the great ones/titans...

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@@tamerllc4355 This is the founder of the city in the Bacchae, right?

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@@stevenv6463 yes!

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Thank you for your wonderful services, and providing such amazing and easily digestible content Dr. Sledge!! Your humor is just....the best. You're the best. Plus you speak so clearly and straight to the point that it is just refreshing to listen to everything you say. What a great video and a great teacher! 💜 perhaps you could one day cover some myths with asherah and el?? 🥺🤍

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@DorkThink]

Oh please oh please Asherah and El? I did a huge research project on Asherah and her... changes between pre -Israelite times and how she eventually became "Yahweh's Asherah". As a pagan woman, and a religious studies scholar, this story in particular fascinates me. I would love to get your take, Dr. Sledge. Blessings. ✨

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How i missed this video, but it popped up on my home page so it must have gained some popularity. 👍👍👍

[@seanhewitt603]

18:00 you ask how stories of giants proportions get exaggerated. Men coming home from a fishing trip ALWAYS tell of the " one that got away"... usually a minnow, water logged tree branch or rock. The Alleged fish is usually a record for the breed.

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haha love your roasting of Brill at the end of video

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They bring it upon themselves

[@MrDalisclock]

Dr. Sledges reaction to the part of Els Drinking Party where he craps his pants is gold.

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Subscribed! Your presentation fills in many important gaps in my studies so far! Thank you so much.

[@guilhermeschwambach1191]

The Rephaim look like the Levant equivalent of hero cults in Mycenaean Greece.

[@benjaminbrockway5998]

Also reminds me of the Egyptian Pharoah Cult, later Roman Imperial Cult, and even the current Shinto Amateratsu/Chrysanthemum Throne link.

[@Cavirex]

The most fascinating facet of the OT is its vagueness, IMO. It really expresses how mystical and preternatural phenomena is confusing and often unclassifiable

[@newtonbomb]

It also is a masterstroke of rhetorical preservationism, keeping at the forefront the relevant practicalities of truth while framing the mystical and miraculous within bounds of esoteric revelations without completely discounting the empirical possibility supernatural manifestation, at the same time also preventing honest plain exegesis from easily escalating into exaggerated mythic paganism without textual mishandling.

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I’ve been looking forward to this one! Love your humor and insight

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am glad i found this channel

[@asmodahlia]

I'm reminded of the ending scene from Felix Colgrave's "Double King". I wonder if this was inspired by the Rephaim or another culture with a similar belief.

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loving the videos on caainties!

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Great video and presentation! In your introduction you had a crookes radiometer present. Do you discuss it in a previous video? It's an interesting device!

[@A.G.130]

Once i did a Ghostwriter work in Italy for a - quite famous - client Who made a lot of money with a kinda "conspiracy theory take" on esotericism. The work was quite fun bc i have a master degree in philosophy - i am a teacher now - and Always cherished the scholar study of esotericism. Seeing this video made me laugh so much remembering that time and considering that - under the adagio of my boss: "MORE ALIENS" and the influence of tons of weed - in the book i wrote i turned the poor rephaims into trans genetic mystic alien hybrid hive minds! Anyway, as Always, Amazing work! I take occasion Also to share you my most sincere compliments fot your article on Edward Kelley that made me discover the Amazing work of Tanya Luhrmann! You are always an inspiration to me!

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Great stuff! I am reminded of writer Thomas Pynchon's "'Thanatoids," a fictional group roaming northern California in his eminently readable "Vineland" (1990).

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Superb scholarship and engaging presentation, glad to have discovered this channel!

[@KennyomarGarcia]

Lucifer (literally morning star, not actually a name) found in the book of Isaiah 14:12 is referring to the fall of Nebuchadnezzar.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

The term Lucifer doesn't occur in the original text

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haha you are truly a perfect sharer of knowledge!!

[@Vitamin_Gun]

Heya Dr. Sledge, I don’t at all ask this in an aggressive way, I’m just curious, but I noticed you pronounced the Tetragrammaton, and I was wondering if you would be willing to share the mindset that comes behind making that decision?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

I'm an academic making academic rather than religious content. The correct pronunciation of יהוה is and will likely remain unknown. "Yahweh" is just an academic attempt to name this ancient god.

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Lol the brill shade is always hilarious

[@simondyda]

Thanks for this, Dr J.

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Imagine you're a devout Jewish person, your whole life, you die, an angel guides your soul down to Sheol and gets there and there is a panel of Bronze Age Kings waiting, and they're speaking Cannite.

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at least you can talk to them, unlike...well everyone else.

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Love you man, you are awesome. Thank you.

[@akolyte22]

I always misread this title as Remphan when I see it on my feed. could you make a video explaining what the star of remphan is. I've read that it's related to Saturn but I'm not sure about the validity of the sources

[@dadaburro]

I like the mortal combat reference! Although maybe "Elhanan wins" could be more fitting??

[@rikkety]

Very informative. Thanks

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To make whole or stitch together would be accurate. When the sons of the Fallen Angels (demons) died, they rested around their physical tomb, until a boy was left there for them to possess

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What

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This is truly fascinating! I'm really enjoying this playlist - thanks for making & sharing it with us! ❤️❤️

[@Kleshumara]

Fascinating video, great philological and historical analysis.

[@johnnada9058]

Would enjoy hearing your opinions on the Epic of Atrahasis

[@paulaOyeah]

Not that I think you will see this or respond, but I’m interested in having a conversation with you. I’ve recently discovered your channel - and I’ve learned so much - but I have some answers from a more historical (rather than religious history) to things that you’ve said are unknown. Understanding our collective history has been a focus for me since I was 8. I started with religious questions, but have found many answers outside those boundaries.

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you have answers? Please do tell ive been waiting forever

[@alexanderkaval7506]

Woah, is the passage you refer to with El the origin of the expression "hair of the dog"?!

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Over COVID and first :-)

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Ha! Glad to hear it, brother!

[@Nintaboy]

Thanks for making this material so accessible and enjoyable. Great video!

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By El this was great!

[@Christian_Maoist.]

Dr Michael Heiser has written a lot about this.

[@CalloohCalley]

YES! Thank you for making this. :)

[@gen1exe]

Is it possible the Rephaim and the Nephilim became confused or conflated at some point by the Israelites? I think about the description of the Nephilim as the great heroes of old in Genesis and the scouts sent out by Moshe calling the Canaanites Nephilim giants, although if Og (and maybe Agag?) are Rephaim that does fit with their association with kings. Hate to muddy the waters even further but what about the Anakim?

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

It's mentioned in the episode.

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I love the ancient Near East. Keep up the good work!

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I'm starting to notice a subtext in this channel... your bank balance Vs Brill's pricing structure. ;)

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Brill's prices are the only devil I believe in

[@kevinrice-eftpractitioner167]

22:27 Sorry, Dr. Sledge. Have to nitpick here. Isaiah 14 is the prophecy against Heyleyl Ben Shachar, not Isaiah 9. Isaiah 9 is climax of the Immanuel oracle that starts in Isaiah 7:14. In other respects an excellent presentation on the Rephaim.

[@TheEsotericaChannel]

Good catch

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Absolutely look forward to your cast! So appreciate this!

[@PatriceBoivin]

Honestly, I am stretching probably, but some of the tales seem like allegories to me for gnostic-like ideas: A person purifies / perfects, reaches a higher realm or builds a body or presence in a higher realm, gets help / makes friends / mates or merges with something from that higher realm, but they also exist in the material world. Can their higher realm friend be their guardian angel? Were they pulled up through the water's surface as seen from above, consciously speaking. Does that give them an edge to survive a flood? What is the flood supposed to mean, esoterically. Death? Mayhem in the material world? This is all very interesting.

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Great show

[@EricVanWinkle]

Wait, the earliest known hangover cure included hairs of a dog?!? That's as awesome as learning that Cerebus means Spot!

[@giftsungiven]

Thank you so much for this.. This was amazing. May it be possible that 'Daniil' has something to do with the 'Tribe of Dan'? Maybe there is a connection there.

[@CamiloGaetePuga]

Awesome presentation. Thank you very much!

[@Refael8219]

26:12 The face I make every time I see a work I'd like to read and it is published by Brill. 😅😂🤣

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That was good! Thanks 😉

[@NewMessage]

Was expecting an April Fool's switcheroo or somethin' today...

[@hallroney]

The catholic church perfected this “making you heroes my villains” technique

[@nictrent3790]

I can't help but wonder if the Rephaim is a continuous evolution of a singular myth... or if the word itself evolved/devolved to identify various unique groups. My main reason for thinking this is that tales of giants permeate ancient culture.

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