Ancient Historian: NEW Texts Change Everything We Knew about the Bible | Gad Barnea

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Published on April 18, 2025 6:33:27 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aveat8qU7z0

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Dr. Barnea is a Lecturer at the department of Jewish history and biblical studies at the University of Haifa as well as a Research Fellow at “the Bible in its Traditions".

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OUTLINE
00:00 - Studying ostraca & ancient Egypt
07:16 - Cyrus the Great's empire
14:08 - Yahwism
25:24 - Judaism came from Yahwism
36:48 - Biblical vs. extra-biblical narratives
50:44 - History's most popular religion
55:04 - The Bible is a "battlefield of ideas"
01:00:16 - Moses is not a historical person
01:06:59 - Advanced tech in ancient Alexandria
01:17:39 - Is the Septuagint originally Greek?
01:29:38 - Greek vs. Hebrew translations
01:41:16 - The problem with history
01:48:31 - Was Jesus a real person?
01:56:48 - Unsolved mysteries of antiquity
02:09:45 - Egyptian texts describe how the pyramids were built
02:19:27 - Patreon questions