hey dear Pro....your telling about Jewish History is a wonder. You introduce an anecdote here and there and you even express a laugh....good for you and us, enjoying a great time of learning and thus living. Thanks

I love these short lectures. You pack so much in. I am also interested in learning about Jewish diaspora in other regions such as India, Central Asia, and China.

You are Great! I am so in love with your Interesting Lectures, hope there are many more to come. God Bless you , be well.

Greetings from Puerto Rico.Keep on the good work,excelent.

Very interesting to hear of these additional Temples. I hope you'll have time to reflect on those in later videos.

You are just amazing, enlightening and thorough. Stunning visits to history.. Thanks so much!

The word "spore" also has the same ancient Greek root _speirein_ (to sow/scatter seeds) as diaspora (which means "scatter across").

💗 your lectures !!

Benzion Netanyahu in his book on the Spanish Inquisition mentions how the Jews picking the wrong side in Egyptian battles against Rome was one of the origins in modern anti-semetism. It’s a bit more complicated than how I just phrased it (Netanyahu goes on for nearly 50 pages describing it) but very interesting. He even says that the last book of the Gospels (John) was written in such a manner as to take advantage of the anti Jewish feelings of the Greeks in Egypt.

Shalom from Brazil. Thank you very much indeed for all those fascinating lectures and absolutely amazing maps. I would appreciate if you share the bibliography where I could have a better read of the Israeli journeys from Exodus up to the conquest of the Land with Joshuah. Thank you again in advance.

Episode 38 was excellent! I have read that the 1st century pogrom in Alexandria was motivated by resentment toward the success of local Jews in business, sports, but, particularly galling to Greeks, philosophy. Dr. Abramson, do you have any information about that aspect of the violence?

Great video as always! Is there anyway you can make a video on the Jewish communities in Central Asia ( Bukhara, Tashkent and Samarkand in specific )? I have tried to research the history of Bukharian Jews (which I descend from) and haven’t been able to get very far.

Is there a lecture regarding or including the Ipuwer Papyrus?

Did any towns in Israel always have a jewish population going back thousands of years? How many jews lived in holy land in dark ages , middle ages 1700s1800s and so on ?

Shalom Dr Henry. Any records of egyptian jews migrating to India in early or late 19th century ?

I am curious as to sources saying Jews living Israel in a Jewish state is considered exile. Thank you

thanks henry for your lecture on the diaspora im aware of the lands name changed to palastine after the bar kochba war im glad you touched on how the name of the land has affected geopolitical events even to this day,with the isareli palastinaian conflict i even see today that theres more palastininans iving in bethelem today than jews,imalso glad you touched on the septuiagint and its translation septuiagint means 70 ,i also see that the greek translation turn the word reed sea yam suph in hebrew to RED SEA in our bibles showing that translations can change the oriinal meaning of a text thanks henry

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Dear Dr. Where can I read about the Jewish temple in Iraq al emir?

Dr. Abramson could you review The Exodus by Richard Elliot Friedman and provide your comments on how the orthodox community is coming to terms with the documentary hypothesis? Thank you

Excellent and fascinating lecture, as always. I think the post-Second Temple diaspora period is one of the most fascinating and understudied areas of Jewish history. If I could make a suggestion/request, when covering the Mesopotamian diaspora, will you cover the Jewish presence in the Arabian Peninsula by extension? I only ask because early Muslim sources speak of significant Jewish presence in the Hijaz around the time of Muhammed, however, I find that there are few sources that cover this interesting topic. Also, there was a short-lived Jewish kingdom in Yemen that flourished in late antiquity from the second to sixth centuries CE. Just a thought! :)

I do believe some sect of those Egyptian Jews in the early centuries reached S.W. Ireland and established monastic settlements there. It became known as the Celtic Church and they used the Old Testament as their bible, and the Abbot used the staff with a T instead of a crook.They are reputed to have had very Jewish traditions and were in existence up to time of Synod of Whitby circa 664 when they were dissolved and the writ of Rome prevaled . One of the charges brought against them was that they were Jews.Wonder can any one tell me more.

What is the source where the map in Hebrew in the background comes from if I my ask Professor?

Loved reading the Hebrew map😮

Do you offer these as DVD's Rabbi?

You teased us by mentioning 3 Jewish temples built outside of Jerusalem. That is a class I’d gladly pay to hear! I knew about the one built by Onias in Egypt but never heard of the other 2. Were there sacrifices performed there? Are there any books you could recommend on the subject?

Pretty sure Elephantine is Greek, so might be more like Ell-eh-fan-tin-ee, with the long Greek 'e' (vs the Latin 'e')...but, i could be totally wrong (as i am so often 😂) Again, great series, thank you for this valuable contribution

Amazing video. Interesting how It’s the foremost diaspora I. The ancient period though it was forbidden to live there as the Rambam writes 7 It is permitted to dwell anywhere in the entire world with the exception of the land of Egypt. Its territory includes a square of 400 parsah by 400 parsah from the Mediterranean Sea proceeding westward, bordering on the land of Kush and the desert. It is forbidden to dwell in this entire territory. In three places, the Torah warned against returning to Egypt: a) 'God has told you, you must never again return on that path' (Deuteronomy 17:16); b) 'You shall not see it again' (Deuteronomy 28:68); c) 'You shall never see them again forever' (Exodus 14:13). Alexandria is included in this prohibition.( hilchot melachim5:6)

Shalom' shalom from SoCal

Is the Elephantine community Jewish in the modern sense of the word? Example I have come across a researcher who claims there were other deities besides YHWY worshipped there as well. Could it be a proto-Jewish or a non-Judaic YHWH community like the Samaritans? By any rate it is fascinating.

Hard questions allowed?

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The legend of the seventy Rabbis is found also in the letter of Aresteas. Rather, say in explanation of the baraita: And our Rabbis permitted them to be written only in Greek. And it is taught in another baraita that Rabbi Yehuda said: Even when our Rabbis permitted Greek, they permitted it only in a Torah scroll, and not for other books of the Bible, which must be written only in Hebrew. The Gemara continues: And this was due to the incident of King Ptolemy, as it is taught in a baraita: There was an incident involving King Ptolemy of Egypt, who assembled seventy-two Elders from the Sages of Israel, and put them into seventy-two separate rooms, and did not reveal to them for what purpose he assembled them, so that they would not coordinate their responses. He entered and approached each and every one, and said to each of them: Write for me a translation of the Torah of Moses your teacher. The Holy One, Blessed be He, placed wisdom in the heart of each and every one, and they all agreed to one common understanding. Not only did they all translate the text correctly, they all introduced the same changes into the translated text..... ( Megillah 9a) Since not one of the 13 changes mentioned in the gemarra seems to be in the Septuagint extant today, it’s fair to assume that the Greek translation known today as Septuagint is a latter translation as the original was burned in the great fire of Alexandria that burned down their library.

My parents always told me that we (the Jews) were the slave labor that built the pyramids. Do you think this is true?

Do you really think your back round picture reflects what ancient Jews looked like, with that bare skin? That's Raba and Abaya's world?!

They were clearly just doing what was right in their own sight. Can you imagine the religious confusion and multiplicity in ancient Israel and Judah? What a nightmare and what a terrible stumbling block!

This has no truth in it... nice try!

Turn to Jesus Christ!