I am a Christian, and I have enjoyed learning your history and appreciate your teaching. You handled the Christian part with respect. Thank you.

I must thank you profusely for making my culture comprehensible to me. You have consistently and successfully woven together the myriad of threads that I have been tangled in

Thank you for a wonderful history lecture..I’ve learnt so much in your open,friendly teaching..Please take care and all the best from the U.K.

Interesting, very. I am a Christian and love to listen historical lectures. This one is exceptional. Let me see our history in others eyes. Thank you.

A sad history ... Thanks Mr Abramson. My only complaint is that the sessions are so short. Really enjoy these classes

LOVE LOVE LOVE your series professor! I pray that both you and your audience are safe and sound in New York City now. I didn't pay attention to the date of your lectures until now.

Just found out my maternal grandmother's maternal grandmother was a Jewish lady, whose father was a Mountain Jew and her mother an Ashkenazi Jew. How the heck did they meet? How the heck did they know how to speak to each other? How the heck did they end up in the American South? It's very interesting to see this Jewish history and have been reading a lot of Jewish anthropological history from the library lately and will definitely be subscribing to this channel.

These classes are great, thank you Dr.Abramson

And just when I thought that you couldn’t improve on your previous lecture series, you did! Excellent, informative, educational and entertaining as we’ve all come to expect from the Dean of Jewish History.

Priceless sir, thank u for separating urself unto Him n sharing

Excellent video thank you.

Another great lecture. Thank you Professor Abramson.

I am a Catholic Christian and i find your lectures very fair and enlightening. I especially "enjoy" (for lack of a better term) this part and how and when Christianity parted from Judaism. It is a crime, obviously, all of the antisemitism and atrocities conmitted against Jews since 70 CE in the name of Christianity. If more Christians like myself knew history better perhaps, like me, they would have a more positive perspective on Jews and Judaism. Judaism existed before and without Christianity. But Christianity wouldn't exist without Judaism.

My second viewing of this great lecture.😉

Very nice and precise Thank you 😊

At 31:05 - a "Talent" of gold is about 58 pounds. 17 Talents is actually a lot of money. Governor Gessius Florus was not a stabilizing force.

Hi Rabbi Abramson, last Yom Kippur 5781 I was looking at the Bar Kocva revolt i.e Eleh Ezkera from Emperor Hadrian's view, as well as other Jews of that time, Wikipedia only, and it made me a bit scared since the times we are living in today do not seem much different, more lectures of those days from the Jewish and Roman perspectives would be greatly appreciated.

Just wanted to say I think you make the most phenomenal Jewish jokes during your lectures - but it has been alarming to me how lacking in a sense of humor the audience has been.

Thanks for sharing informative lecture.

Reminder set!😉

Thank you for another excellent lecture. (Have you ever read any of Hyam Maccoby's books, such as Revolution in Judaea?)

48:25 Cassius Dio. Josephus was dead by the time of the Bar Kokhba Revolt. I think it probably was a ban on circumcision. Hadrian really didn't like them.

WOW The information on Babatha amazing. Like a personal genezah!

I expect you know that the line Aggripa cried over was during Hakhel, when he was the Reader (Ba'al Koreh) as part of his duties as king, rather than merely receiving an Aliyah. (Maybe calling it an _aliya_ is a cute anachronism, but I think the story lacks the punch without the proper details.)

Great video lecture as always! Do you have any lectures on chinese and jewish historical relations?

Watching live!

What about the "ass libel".. with regards to images within Jerusalem? I have no reason to doubt Tacitus..but there is very little i could find with regards to the subject (for good reason in sure).

Thank you!

Love it, just what I want to to know, your great. Do you have a book written on this? Most books I read on this time period, I have a hard time understanding.

I’m not sure, but I’m afraid Yosef ben Matityahu told to Vespasian that he Vespasian, is messiah

very interesting!

could someone please answer a question. Why do some menorah have three candles to a side, and others four?

That Roman art sure looks like the Ark of the Covenant to me.

Henry,I want to know if the 2300 evening / morning abomination of the Temple prophecy in the book of Daniel and the cleansing of the sanctuary corralates to the Maccabees cleansing of the sanctuary, and then when Jesus walked on the porch of Solomons temple,did that show the Jewish leaders that the fulfillment of Daniels prophecy being fulfilled.I think it would be intriguing to know the depths of Mose's learning and acclimation from growing and being raised in the royal Egyptian household.He had to of been schooled in all the dark arts,military,politics,agriculture,religion of the Egyptian God's.I know the the ark of the covenant to a large degree was modeled on the Egyptian ark with the dog God on top.

I'd hope not to be awake at that time in the morning, but you never know.

It has been said that Gallus was having trouble in.. as you know..and they had lost their superstitious battle token thingy of an eagle at another site... thought it to be a bad omen and left. Id look it up again..but its early and I want to finish watching this before work..lol.

Shalom, from Dave in Vancouver, Canada

Can you tell me who or what is gong and Magog ? Thanks

Is the previous teachings on KZfaq as well?

Ralph Ellis says that Chamsa and Bar Chamsa are references to Ptolemy of Mauretania/King Monobazus/King Abgarus and his son King Izates/Monobazus 2 of Edessa (the historical king Jesus). Also Bilam is Talmudic code name for Jesus according to Ralph Ellis. My Three Weeks Reader has an interesting Chamsa story.

to be pedantic a shekel was ~8g and a talent was ~30kg. 17 talents is equal to over 65k shekels and 510kg of gold. A shekel/denarius was roughtly a days wage so sick pile of gold today but a legions (unit) pay for a season.

31:00 - A talent (as a unit of mass) is 57 lb. So 17 talents of gold probably means 969 lb of gold. Seems quite a lot to me. A talent can also mean the cash value of 57 lb of silver. So it could mean 17 talents worth of gold (ie the money value of 969 lb of silver, in gold). Still quite a lot. Maybe not if you are a procurator, I suppose. The 57 lb came from the weight of a standard amphora filled with water. Approx. 1 cubic foot. Thanks Wikipedia.

In 23:25, as for the passage about Agrippa taken from the Babylonian Talmud (Sotah 41a), was it Agrippa I or Agrippa II? As for why Agrippa could not read from the Torah as a king of Israel, it was more related to his family being a family of proselytes (from the Idumean nation). Proselytes are still Jews by religion, but the only time a Jewish king can actually read publicly the Torah once in seven years on the Temple Mount is when the king was born from an Israelite mother. The Sages of Israel flattered Agrippa, saying to him that he was one of their own, when, in actuality, he was a Jewish king who could NOT legally read from the Torah publicly at that time.

Lovely lectures. Just a note, the feud was not between kamtza and bar kamtza, it was between the wedding host who was nameless in the story and he wanted to invite kamtza and instead the messenger invited bar kamtza.

did the rabbi's copy Josephus's story of telling Vespasian he will become Emporer to Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai ?

exiled to the south of France? I should be so lucky.....

This guy is so fantastic in his presentation,may sometime he could give a lecture on Jakub Frank en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Frank

"you are my genius" - sorry but regular grammar does not allow me to express my gratitude - toda raba a million times - Daniel

I just got through reading the historical section and the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel. I know that the Destruction of Jerusalem by the babylonians was considered a judgement from God. Did the Jews consider the destruction of Jerusalem as a judgement from God? If so how were they to be reconciled to God? Now that they have returned to the land are they now Zealous for the things of God?

35:00 Is described in Luke 21:20 "when Jerusalem is surrounded by armies you will know that the desolation is near. Then let those who are in Judeah flee to the hills". The Christians all fled the city south into the mountains after the army left "for unknown reasons", therefore they missed the tribulation the remaing people of Jerusalem suffered during the destruction a few short years later. GOD warned Israel (his chosen people) once again.

Dear Rabbi Abramson The Jews may have lost the battle but this type of Holy War is in the CREATIVe EVOLUTION which also explains why the Jews survived the horrendous MODERN DAY HOLOCAUST and is a collective battle of what I have loosely titled Holy Israel and also explains Yahweh asking Abraham to offer his beloved son Isaac as a sacrifice. Yahweh has never ceased raising his LIVING WORD to not only instruct us but to deliver us and to receive the full understanding of the uttered 'I AM THAT I AM' and with enough passing of time where personal development expands into the cultural development that evolves intellectually another word for spiritually when discussing real liberal learning and how the individual and the advanced souls who help deliver the Messiah that is the Lord or the Father waking within the life of the heart's Holy of Holies and is what the Ark of the Covenant with its powerful electrical current or network that empowers the necessary strength so that our heart's courage and strength switched on the internal senses that allows the human being to come of age through mature love and wisdom based on the deepest truths so that the intimacy of 'I AM THAT I AM' can be united in the mind and heart of the individual and why the creative or Holy battles all come under the umbrella of the Holy War which our Divine Father planned perfectly so that globally all formal religion rises above faith and belief and becomes enlightened as it takes to know the highest things and the responsibilities that are attached to the Advanced Divine Minds that illuminate the neural pathway of what it means to actually live in the City of Man whilst dwelling in the City of God that the Catholic writer Augustine failed to grasp as his grace was not sufficient to attain the spiritual evolution that he had not achieved at a time when Holy Israel (loosely termed for want of a better description of the Holy Global Temple) that is the LIVING TANAKH OR HEBREW BIBLE where the TORAH describes the CREATIVE DIVINE WORLD that had to be understood and translated to world when it came of age. That time is NOW! Yahweh needs his beloved off-spring to create the future worlds that come first from darkness to light as Genesis explains on a psychological platform that we formerly called spiritually or intellectually developed from the playground of life experience. When people complain that Yahweh let them suffer must understand that it is our responsibility to become accountable and participate more learnedly from the facts of life so that we select our leaders with more wisdom and are not struck down with the plagues that proud minds can produce. Why the shares of King David, etc. are recorded to show what overcoming weakness and most importantly, pride and how the power of re-building ourselves makes us even greater for those that follow from the living energy that is a living part of where we are currently and I agree Rabbi Abramson that Judaism is not historical except a reflective collective awareness that allows the highest benchmark of a heart's collective knowledge to develop a cultural global living very highly tuned conscience. Do we call our memory or personal recollection, history? No, not really. Our cultural development of the supreme or divine heights or worlds are evolved from what has come before and this is a living stream as we stand here because of our gathered learning and this is the very knowledge stream that guides us culturally and globally to the point that we are able to light the pathway up for tomorrow on earth and in heaven where everything is synthesised far more deeply than psychologists or spiritual leaders have opened up or researched yet for the many. The power and glory of THE LIVING WORD. Read Genesis for a spiritual swoon.

The Statue of Caligula was NOT an Icon. Can you please refrain from taking shots at the church?

I'm a white guy and I want to learn about why there was so much conflict between jews and europeans for so long.

Varus (10:49) took his own life 9CE after an alliance of Germanic tribes ambushed and destroyed 3 Roman legions and their auxiliaries in the Teutoburg battle, led by him.

The Temple was never on the temple mount , it was in the city of David next to the Gihon Spring.

Moses prophesied this to the house of Israel, c1450 years before it occurred in 70AD. “And all these maledictions will certainly come upon you and pursue you and overtake you until you have been annihilated, because you did not listen to the voice of YHVH your God by keeping his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. And they must continue on you and your offspring as a sign and a portent to time indefinite, due to the fact that you did not serve YHVH your God with rejoicing and joy of heart for the abundance of everything. And you will have to serve your enemies whom YHVH will send against you with hunger and thirst and nakedness and the want of everything; and he will certainly put an iron yoke upon your neck until he has annihilated you. YHVH will raise up against you a nation far away, from the end of the earth, just as an eagle pounces, a nation whose tongue you will not understand a nation fierce in countenance who will not be partial to an old man or show favour to a young man. And they will certainly eat the fruit of your domestic animals and the fruitage of your ground until you have been annihilated, and they will let no grain new wine or oil no young of your cattle or progeny of your flock remain for you until they have destroyed you. And they will indeed besiege you within all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you are trusting fall in all your land, yes, they will certainly besiege you within all your gates in all your land, which YHVH your God has given you. Then you will have to eat the fruit of your belly the flesh of your sons and your daughters, whom YHVH your God has given you because of the tightness and stress with which your enemy will hem you in. (Deuteronomy 28:45-53) Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet: You Are Cursed By The God YHW Cursed You Will Die Cursed - Cursed You Will Surely Die Cursed You Are By YHW - Cursed

That should be gog

In Colombia the "sicarios" are the hitmen of the drug lords

Isaiah sentenced Israel to suffering in chapter 53 and Yahweh has been dishing it out ever since.

Yes crucifixtion is a painful death but stoning now there is a way to die

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Jesus came when he did to announce the end of Daniels 70 weeks, “the time is fulfilled, He said, the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.” The physical Kingdom was about to be shut down, with the priesthood and the sacrifice. All of it was Foretold throughout the prophets and Daniel gave us the timeline. Jesus said, “believe me and you will be saved, if not you will suffer fire and Judgment. Jesus was prophesying the coming war with Rome that would be fueled by Jerusalem’s own citizens and clergy. ‘Upon this generation, Jesus said, shall come all the innocent blood shed from Abel to Zacharias before Elijah, the one crying in the wilderness came saying “make straight a pathway for our God, He’s coming and his winnowing fan is in his hand and he will thoroughly purge his threshing floor and gather the wheat into his barn and bundle the tares and burn them with fire. Everything Christ said would happen, did happen. This was the testimony to history that Jesus gave his life for Judah, he came to his own and they received him not, but those who believed him escaped the civil war and then the Roman war. Christ knew the Pharisees would reject him and anyone else who threatened their religious authority and their wealth, they all paid with their lives in the three-and-a-half-year civil war, it was literal hell on earth. In the last week of Christ’s life when he entered Jerusalem to die, He gave the final warning when he stood upon the Hill overlooking the temple Mount and wept and cried out, how often he had wanted to protect Jerusalem like a mother hen her brood, but the time was coming, he said “when they will build a siege wall around you and close you in on every side and you shall be leveled to the ground without one stone left upon another because you did not recognize the day of Visitation. When the war was over 1,100,000 Jews were dead, most from starvation and the civil war or a Roman sword. This was the time of Jacobs trouble, this was the fulfillment of the curse of Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26, this was the end of the physical temple and the authority of those who controlled it. The warning that Christ and his apostles brought to Judea and Samaria and Galilee shall be the Historical evidence for all eternity that He did everything he could possibly do to warn his people of the coming judgment. Deuteronomy 32:28-36 (KJV) 28 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end! 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. 34 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? 35 To me belongs vengeance and recompense; their foot shall slide in time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants when he sees that their power is gone, and there is none shut up or left.

As far as God was concerned, everything ended in 70AD, didnt matter what they tried to keep going in Judaism for 2000yrs, once the temple was destroyed it was God's final sign that you come to Him through Christ, or not at all!

Jesus christ the son of the living God is returning soon please read his words and pray for forgiveness

please no jokes....your delivery is very poor..