1. Just How Awesomely Long is Jewish History, Anyway?

Part I of a new series: Jewish History for Parents and Other Teachers of Children. Enjoy in good health!
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[@garyhodder8656]

Great video. It reminds me that, over 300 years ago, King Louis XIV of France asked Blaise Pascal, the great Christian philosopher, to give him proof of God. Pascal answered, “Why the Jews, your Majesty, the Jews!”

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Wow. I did not know that!

[@vicihuizinga8157]

Actually that was asked by another king: The story is told that King Frederick the Great of Prussia once asked his physician to give him proof for the existence of God. His physician replied, “Your Majesty, the continued existence of the Jews.”

[@Karenanneseven]

I’m an Aussie & I’ve spent all week learning the history of the Jewish people. Absolutely amazing ❤. I wish more people eg. people who protest around the world…would learn your history. It’s pure ignorance not to. Love to the beautiful strong people of Israel. My heart is with you. 🇮🇱🇦🇺💙🙏🫶

[@RobinHerzig]

Y'know, historians 😏 We get paid by the year These are the jokes I'm here for

[@AJAJade]

Thanks so much for all you do to educate is about the amazing history of the beautiful Jewish people

[@mikebalis9963]

Thank your, Dr. Abramson.

[@Nancy-mi3xe]

This is year 5784 of the Jewish calendar. And probably how long we've been fighting for survival.

[@pheebsbee1280]

Awesome! Thank you.

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You are most welcome!

[@antoniatejedabarros]

This lecture was awesome! I'm not a historian, just a Doctor in Philosophy, and I loved it. Thank you very much, professor Abramson. Respect & support from Spain 💙✡

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mrs.jaywojo5426]

Have you heard of the channel on youtube called Expedition Bible? The archeologist has a video series and a book called Where God Came Down. Wonderful series and great resource for my homeschool. Now, I am going to use this series, as well, for my kids - thank you!

[@debrapaulino918]

Thank you always for these ❤

[@Ian_BTurner]

Very much appreciating your content!

[@sarahbrownstein3783]

Thank you so much for this birds' eye view. Fascinating!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TurboJon]

Excellent video! Really looking forward to the remaining installments -- and sharing them with my grandchildren. Thank you!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Wonderful!

[@ericduchess8647]

I love your videos, Dr. Abramson! You have taught me so much!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Glad you like them!

[@jenniferannegollop5323]

Wonderful as always!!!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

I’m really glad you found it useful! Thank you.

[@NuNugirl]

I was told A.D was After Death. This is the first I’ve heard differently. I’m being completely serious.

[@kurtkensson2059]

It was easier for some to remember than "Anno Domini."

[@debrapaulino918]

Did a search yesterday into when the Copper Age was. It was the first known record we have of metallurgy and was in >3000+ time frame. So anyway I mention it coz I thought it interesting the Iron Age ended in year 1 AD. Bronze was between Copper and Iron. Now I have to find out what happened after Iron 🤔 and why year 1? So the After Death is even more interesting. Hope I haven't bothered anyone.

[@fermentillc]

Two movies that Ive seen the young people enjoy are "year one" and "american pickle".

[@Akkadi_]

Good stuff. Small correction, though -- the Assyrians still exist! They have a recorded history stretching back well over 4,000 years, making them the oldest (or second oldest, if you count Egypt) people in the Middle East.

[@paulstieler4468]

Henry / As a VFW Historian / I could listen to your lectures / Until I fall off my Barstool

[@jasonoconner7863]

Great idea! Looking forward to watching / listening. Thank you Dr. .

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

You're most welcome!

[@dcguy3]

Going to be teaching judaics at a shul's Sunday school in a couple months and something to help me focus the material like this is incredibly helpful Teaching is a passion of mine. I want to be a professional of Jewish history one day, but that's further off I suppose 😅

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Wishing you success!

[@TurboJon]

Thanks!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you for supporting the research! Much appreciated.

[@diannealice3601]

Looking forward to a new series!

[@prakashnrathorepnr3455]

Namskar as Hello i am Indian Hindu from India Rajasthan. I love you Israel and jews love you live longlife my dearest Israeli sisters and brothers all Indian Hindu from whole world 🌎🌎🌎 with you

[@joshmesser374]

Really enjoyed the video, although one question i have is what exactly is considered a continuous civilization when you refer to Egyptian civilization being only somewhere around 3000 years old on your chart? Wikipedia says "Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology)." Is there an important demographic / cultural shift that happens for you to put this at a later date? Thanks!

[@shivapriya2059]

You forgot the Tamil civilization, existing continually historically at the very least 4000 years and most probably much longer.

[@James_Wisniewski]

There's a quote from The Sopranos that I love, so much so that I looked it up to make sure I got it right. This is from season 1, spoken by a Jewish character who's standing up against the Italian mobsters: "You ever heard of the Masada? For two years, 900 Jews held their own against 15,000 Roman soldiers. They chose death before enslavement. The Romans? Where are they now?" (And, of course, Tony responds "You're looking at them, a**hole," but when you're watching the scene, the comparison comes off as quaintly pathetic, at least to me.)

[@altinokz]

Am İsrael Chai! I stand with 🇮🇱. Bat Noah from Tampa, FL

[@nissimblackofficial]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@isabelleskiss]

I thought I knew all the Jewish jokes about Chinese food...I love them! 😂

[@kimberleygirl7533]

I miss Rabbi Jonathon Sacks too. He was wonderful.🇦🇺

[@tonyhatfield6527]

Wow what a coincidence it magically matches up with the year lol

[@Jeraaz]

Dude jewish history is fascinating it documents so much about history and civilization

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Dude you speak the truth

[@baddbeliever]

its cool because even in the new testament where they speak of ancient tales or even in the quran when they say tales of old...they are talking about israelite prophets and their experiences.

[@cameliavaschi600]

Wonderful lectures !I am listening to the channel for two years now, and often with my kids. Truly Jewish history is the most extraordinary! I am so sorry for what is happening now between Israel and Gaza. About the AD vs CE it's stil the same I think because both notations refer to the same event, the year when it is established the birth of Jesus Christ. I think that the tremendous influence of his life and teachings as a Jew is part of the peculiarity of Jewish people. Anyway, may we find understanding and peace trough loving our neighbors as ourselves. God bless you!

[@saul2491]

Jesus was no christ and is not part of Jewish history. If he existed and was the jesus from the new testament he was a false prophet. Keep him in christian history. He is nothing to do with us. We will certainly say common era because he was no christ and we actually have oir own calender and year system.

[@derekpmoore]

What other nations have annals as ancient as the Jewish people have? The Irish have genealogies and manuscripts containing migratory histories that are as ancient as the Codices of Aleppo and Leningrad.

[@debrapaulino918]

Recently learned my mom's Irish father descended from the early 1st century King of Ulster. Crazy also that one part of my dad's heritage by his mom were also from Ulster. They also lived across the street of each other as kids but at different times and didn't meet till after the War.

[@derekpmoore]

@@debrapaulino918the kings of Ulster called themselves Scots because they claim descent from Pharaoh Senusret I’s daughter titled Scota. Senusret predated Abraham by a handful generations. The Irish annals also mention Amenemhat III some generations later. Abraham would have been contemporary to Amenemhat III.

[@derekpmoore]

@@debrapaulino918The Irish annals were as ancient as the Jewish annals until the Dead Sea Scrolls were found. An equivalent of the Dead Sea Scrolls hasn’t been found for the Irish annals.

[@willielee5253]

​@derekpmoore So it's not a rumor that a Princess of Egypt actually sailed to Ireland. Some talk about a red haired Pharaoh as well.

[@derekpmoore]

@@willielee5253 the Irish annals say Thoth was the son of Ogamhan king of Golgotha in the time of Amenemhat III (who was contemporary to Abraham). The Tutmoses pharaohs would be related to the Gadelians according to the annals. Sons of Thoth pharaohs must have R1b Y DNA accordingly.

[@simban00]

I would argue that todays year is 2023 - Jewish year = begining of Jewish culture. AD means Anno = year + Domini = dominant = dominant year. And finally oldest and contiuous civilizations Pelasgians/Greeks and Native Americans what are your thoughts? As for the Greeks when specifically did they change? The sky is and has been Hellenic, 3 flood stories, oldest human remains, readable wŕiting, becoming a nation around 9000 bc yet if we follow their ancestors the Pelasgians then we go back a very very long time. Other than that I think you are very educational and great videos.

[@lucretiuscaro]

Well, I guess you only find gold in such small quantities.

[@dgetzin]

I’ve always wanted to conjugate the Latin for “in the year of their Lord” and I’ll say that’s what AD means for me.

[@residue-er5dooo]

What animal did God say will lie down with the Lamb?

[@debrapaulino918]

Ants in military formation: two by two.

[@residue-er5dooo]

@@debrapaulino918 *Ha ha, see if Jesus thinks you're funny at the Gate now.*

[@URHUSBANDBEATSU]

That's idolatry worship go repent of your ignorance and sins.

[@glaubert1oliveira]

Legenda em Português👍🏾

[@JeffinBville]

I'm not sure why you're comparing size and numbers and shape when it's becoming offensive to me ~ as a Jew, like the Chinese food trope which is an urban thing anyway. It just furthers stereotypes. A better and more informative comparison would have been a comparison of how philosophy shifted over time between Jewish and Chinese cultures and whether or not there is any hard indication that the cultures had met and mixed.

[@trevanhatch8717]

My Jewish professor in my MA in Jewish Studies would get annoyed when someone in the class called Iron Age Israelites “Jews”. She would get mad and say, “There are no Jews in 7th century Judah! They are Israelites.”

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Well, there were certainly Judahites. But hey.

[@jasonsmall5602]

@@AmaranthAcademy-ni2xqIn some pronunciations, the gimel (normally a G sound) sounds like J. But the word for Judah starts with a yud, which sounds like a Y.

[@debrapaulino918]

​@@jasonsmall5602"Ya" true 😊 Hard J is Anglo Saxon in origin?

[@MegaFount]

Paleostinians are not descendants of the Philistines! That is a lie.

[@TboneWTF]

Jewish history is very, very, very, very (yawn), very, very long.

[@JacquesMare]

Unfortunately, the further back in time one goes with Jewish "history", the more it becomes "story" instead of "history" according to archeology, but still... the evolution of this myth, and the people who so stubbornly adhere to its bronze age principles, are endlessly fascinating. I can't help wondering how Jews will negotiate the intricacies of the law of Moses once the Temple is restored one day, with the instructions in the Torah for example about sacrifices for diseases and the primitive penalties for not adhering to the law of Moses in light of the constraints guiding a modern constitutional state. Now that's 👆 going to be fun to witness from afar.

[@opposingshore9322]

The beautiful wisdom of Judaism is that it had the foresight to assign primacy to Oral Law, meaning the teaching of our sages who are responsible for interpreting the Torah in each generation. Therefore, we are not a ‘dead religion’ simply worshipping as in the Bronze Age, but an always unfolding and transforming people who use the Torah as a guiding light and the wisdom of our sages as a compass. In every age and generation, Jewish faith and observance has persevered with incredible ingenuity, adaptation, and fidelity.

[@moraemepasikhani9153]

Thanks!

[@HenryAbramsonPhD]

Thank you so much!