The Judean Tetrarchy (4 BCE-30 CE)

[@SamAronow]

*Correction that didn't make it into the recap video!* There is no Jewish law prohibiting a divorcée from remarrying while her ex-husband is still alive. Instead, Archelaus' marriage to Glaphyra was illegal because it violated Levirate Marriage. According to Halacha, a man is obliged to marry his brother's widow if she is childless, though he can opt out. However, a man is *forbidden* from marrying his brother's widow if she already has children. Glaphyra had already had three children by Prince Alexander.

[@maulanakarman8955]

Hi

[@branchofthevine779]

Your implicit slight minimizing Jesus Christ to just another Zealot like Judas of Gamala shows your ignorance and explicit bias of the subject. Read Acts 5:36-37 where Gamaliel clearly distinguishes the prior Zealot movements to the Christ ministry. It’s not a reference for you to come up with your own theories to deny the divinity of Christ! Btw, your cutaways showing a cartoon of yourself is vain and ridiculous to say the least.

[@maulanakarman8955]

@@branchofthevine779 My friend we don’t need to literally just gain source from the Bible about Jesus, The only Best documents about Jesus is from a Jew. We should take sources about Jesus from the Bible where that basically Jesus is God although he got killed by the Romans and he can walk on water and said that poor people are dogs

[@branchofthevine779]

@@maulanakarman8955 You are not understanding because you are unlearned on totality of holy scripture. Mr. Aronow is clearly referencing Book of Acts with the comment on Judas Gamala not the Chazal! Your blatantly false Metatron, the broader Babylonian texts or your commentators will not save, ever!

[@maulanakarman8955]

@@branchofthevine779 Do you just call me unlearned? I don’t need to believe in the Bible because the Bible says Jesus is God and he walks on water. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKPPpoyVi6h3rK8

[@HadiM-rb7yo]

this channel is a treasure chest

[@tabshoura]

I'm born bred in Jordan. I will never forget watching the Araba accords as a child. Thank you for filling in the blanks of knowledge of Jewish history. And for doing it so well.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

You being Jordanian is of proximity to Israel, especially Reuben, Gad and Manasseh, do you think you have Hebrew Israelite ancestry?

[@reconnaissanceman1547]

“Salome blames John the Baptist... and famously had his head sent to her on a silver platter. Naturally, this accomplished nothing.” Gold

[@enclavesoldier8893]

On the contrary, silver!

[@Vampirecronicler]

I like how you meantion Jesus, without actually mentioning him. I find that brilliant foreshadowing

[@Kratos1015]

It is the best channel on KZbin regarding Jewish history

[@fouadhoblos3611]

That end with the 2nd messiah claimer was simply: Epic! Almost prompted a Halleluyah from a certain Christian..

[@texasyojimbo]

:: plays rave music, flashes strobe lights ::

[@Rickety3263]

This series is just the right amount of detail to get a basic perspective and starting points to dig deeper. THANK YOU!

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you for putting the sometimes disparate pieces together. Great video.

[@heywaitMarlee]

I swear just when you think Herod the Great and his endlessly entertaining/horrible family can't get any worse, they somehow manage to top themselves in an even more spectacular fashion. Aka Archaleaus. Jeez.

[@royharel2147]

Fanstastic video! This is honestly the first good video I have seen on this very obscure topic. By the way, are you planning on making a video on the recent political developments in Israel?

[@inferno0020]

I have been interested in the political and social background of when the event of the New Testament took place. Thank you for this video.

[@teachoc9482]

How do you get the information and how do I prove to my friends that your information is correct? They believe the Bible literally, and a lot of this goes against the literal interpretation, so I need help to show them how you know these facts (especially the Stone age and early episodes.)

[@terrence6674]

in the temple.... during passover... damn 2:16

[@Artur_M.]

About 0:29, I actually don't think that Habsburgs ever went that far (or should I say close), that's going full Ptolemies! Edit: Yeah Nah, I underestimated the Habsburgs.

[@SamAronow]

There were a lot of uncle-niece marriages in the Habsburg line, especially in Spain.

[@Artur_M.]

@@SamAronow Oh boy, l should have paid more attention to their family tree. I somehow assumed that it was just a lot of cousins, including first cousins. Edit: Now I know that it's apparently something called an avunculate marriage and that it is technically still legal in some countries. I don't feel comfortable with this knowledge, maybe I subconsciously repressed it?

[@maulanakarman8955]

@@SamAronow hi

[@davidschalit907]

@@Artur_M. It's Biblically allowed.

[@richardglady3009]

Thank you. Man…what a confusing era. Thanks for the summary.

[@Replicaate]

Is there any particular reason why the major Jewish kingdoms didn't seem to have a straightforward succession system? Were there laws and customs that would conflict with having a set-in-stone rule like primogeniture or absolute primogeniture?

[@THEPIPELIST]

How do we explain the possible contradiction between Matt 2 and Luke 2? Matt says Jesus was born during Herod’s reign, which ended with his death in 4ad. Luke says Jesus was born while Quirinius was governor or Syria, but his reign only began in 6ad.

[@SamAronow]

They made a mistake? That happens all the time. Even using the Bible as a baseline, the Anno Mundi count in the Hebresiw Calendar is off by a couple centuries because the Rabbinic academies of the 6th century massively underestimated the lengths of the Achaemenid and Hellenistic periods.

[@noahdarby-villis1157]

​@@SamAronowdidn't alot of gentiles call all Herrods kids herrod? Assuming the gospel were transcribed by greeks, could they not be talking aboit Antipas?

[@urielantoniobarcelosavenda780]

Wait, there was a war going on between Roman protectorates at the same scenario the evangelios take place??!! What?!

[@MrJole777]

Tanak declares that the lineage of the father counts.

[@noahtylerpritchett2682]

Hillel is a illegitimate heretic.

[@Fosterbrightart]

Thanks for putting Jesus the Galilean in the right Jewish context as a follower of John. If more people understood what he was doing, centuries of brain-dead religious war, Jewish and Christian suffering would not have happened. The temperature of Judea was messianic, but that doesn't mean Jesus taught that he was the Messiah. He preached repent, the kingdom of God is at hand (John the Baptist) and the messianic age is upon us. History tells us this is about the followers of Gd turning toward Gd and to maybe that means conversion of the nations. I am not a Jew, but I believe the Messiah is coming as we modern seekers of God unite. Jesus was a mustard seed for the nations and his message is to be led by the Jews. No need for a new religion.

[@אברהםמולה-ת2ד]

יישר כח exactly what I was looking for Short and sweet ויאמר לקוצרים השם עמכם מועדים לשמחה

[@Rudster14]

Why did the Roman's decide to take full control of Judea after Herod's death? Was it because he left the kingdom in such a mess?

[@gottod6895]

Rome does what Rome always did, take territory just for the Glory of it.

[@farfiman]

According to some sources Shealtiel and not Pedaiah is father of Zrubabel.

[@arilieberman3547]

"Jewish law prohibited divorcés from marrying while their exes were still alive" This is a factually incorrect statement in an otherwise good presentation. Nothing in Jewish law prohibits a divorcé from marrying while her ex is still alive. Please provide source for this statement.

[@seraphthegatekeeper]

It’s not the only problem with this video.

[@davidschalit907]

He corrected himself above.

[@mitchellrose3620]

Ken Humphreys says that The Babtist was likely killed circa 35CE.

[@brenosantana1458]

Look in 6 : 35, you said "In 15", but ,actually, what is in the legend is 14.

[@mysteryjunkie9808]

It’s worth mentioning that John the Baptist was cousins to Jesus of Nazareth and believed him as the Messiah

[@andrewsuryali8540]

It's very interesting because we actually saw the exact same pattern of a strongly established Jewish religious figure proclaiming a less established one as the Messiah over 16 centuries later, although in that case Nathan of Gaza was younger than Shabbatai Tzvi.

[@niccolorichter1488]

Highly unlikely that he was his cousin

[@Agora42069]

Do you have a discord server

[@wilfordfraser6347]

I hate to stop the video for a second. Does this mean the story about Salome dancing for the King and asking for the head of John the Baptist in return is not true??

[@BrandonSBaker]

Enjoyed the video why use the secular annotation of time?

[@dzmcroy]

Makes sense that a Jewish channel wouldn’t use annotation derived from “in the year of our Lord,” no?

[@BrandonSBaker]

@@dzmcroy lots of Jews know that Jesus is The Christ according to the scriptures

[@JudeMichaelPeterson]

According to Josephus, Herod had rewritten his will just before death to give everything to Archelaus. Antipas was the one who went to Herod to dispute this and after long arguments and some uprisings, it was Caesar who chose to divide Israel into a tetrarchy. I don't know if this video is wrong or if Josephus is wrong, but I'm guessing it's the video.

[@JudeMichaelPeterson]

Also, the 3,000 that Archelaus killed in the temple during Passover were violent revolutionaries trying to overthrow him who had themselves holed up in the temple, the situation wasn't exactly Archelaus' fault.

[@JudeMichaelPeterson]

Okay, so I just popped open my copy of Josephus' Jewish war and realized that I was in error on my first point. I'll quote the relevant portion below. Book 1.667 At this meeting Ptolemy, the man to whom the king had entrusted his signet ring, took the platform. He began with a eulogy of the late king and reassuring words to the civilian population, then read out the letter which Herod had left for his troops, making an insistent appeal for their loyalty to his successor. 668 After the letter, he opened and read the codicils to Herod’s will. These specified that Philip was to inherit Trachonitis and the surrounding districts, Antipas (as we have mentioned earlier) was to be tetrarch, and Archelaus king. 669 Archelaus was required to take Herod’s personal ring to Caesar, together with the governing instruments of the kingdom under seal, as Caesar was the executor of all his dispositions and the guarantor of his will. In all other particulars his previous will was to remain valid. Book 2.92 So the Jews made the prosecution case and concluded with this petition. Nicolaus then rose to rebut the charges made against the kings, laying the blame on the inherently anarchic character of the Jewish people and their automatic resistance to the authority of their kings. He also had hard words for the relatives of Archelaus who had defected to join his accusers. 93 At the time Caesar did no more than listen to both parties and then dismiss the assembly. His decision came a few days later. He gave half of the kingdom to Archelaus with the title of ethnarch, promising to promote him king if he proved himself worthy. 94 The other half he divided into two tetrarchies and gave them to two other sons of Herod, one to Philip, and the other to Antipas who was disputing the throne with Archelaus. 95 The domain given to Antipas was Peraea and Galilee, producing a revenue of 200 talents, and Philip was allocated Batanaea, Trachonitis, Auranitis, and some parts of Zeno’s estate in the Paneas area, with a revenue of 100 talents. 96 Archelaus’ ethnarchy comprised Idumaea, all of Judaea, and Samaritis, which had its tribute reduced by a quarter as a reward for not joining the general revolt. 97 The cities subjected to Archelaus* were Strato’s Tower, Sebaste, Joppa, and Jerusalem: the Greek cities of Gaza, Gadara, and Hippus were detached from the kingdom and annexed to Syria. The revenue from the territory given to Archelaus amounted to 400 talents. 98 In addition to the legacy left her in the king’s will, Salome was made mistress of Jamnia, Azotus, and Phasaelis, and Caesar also presented her with the palace at Ascalon: the combined revenue from all these sources gave her an income of sixty talents, but this estate of hers was made subject to Archelaus’ jurisdiction. 99 Each of the other members of Herod’s family received the legacy specified in his will. As a separate gift, Caesar settled 500,000 silver drachmas on Herod’s two unmarried daughters,* and arranged their marriages to the sons of Pheroras. 100 After dividing the estate Caesar also shared out among the family his own personal legacy from Herod, which amounted to 1,000 talents, retaining only a few articles of no great value as keepsakes in memory of the late king.

[@MrLee-cy1pw]

Every Christian should learn all this stuff.

[@davidschalit907]

Where do you get this idea that Judaism didn't or doesn't recognize private property?

[@Big_Nuke]

Where does Jewish law prohibit a divorcee marrying if her ex is alive?

[@jedimmj11]

"Jewish law prohibited divorcés from marrying while their exes were still alive." Source???

[@SamAronow]

I misunderstood the nature of the offense: Archelaus had violated levirate marriage because Glaphyra was the widow of his half-brother Alexander but had already had children by Alexander.

[@jedimmj11]

Can I suggest adding corrective annotations to videos? For the errors addressed correction video, just a message with the relevant link could suffice. (Cheers for this absolutely epic series. I've learnt so much)

[@dwightschrute900]

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[@8Overthrow6]

There are a lot of prophecies concerning the messiah in the Jewish bible, including that he would be from the line of David among many other specific details including being from Bethlehem. A messiah is different from The Messiah.

[@MrSharrutu]

Messiah apperas to.mean savior

[@Duiker36]

Citation needed.

[@AMRPK]

A big mess alright. But no messiah.

[@PureMaddnessOne]

Those 4 groups r interesting, just going by description that is on screen. Comparatively 1 group would be like a socialist group, 2 groups would be seen as Capitalists groups and 1 is pro Monarchy mixed with sorta Hippie like group

[@samuelhoran7898]

I highly doubt a group of religious fanatics can be considered "socialist".