Rocky - miss your presentations. Not a word from you since 2020. Fear you have become part of history. If so, thank you for the wonderful gifts you have left behind.

It’s amazing the story of humanity throughout history

00:00:00 - I. THE PROMISED LAND 00:08:52 - II. SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY 00:22:37 - III. THE GOD OF HOSTS 00:36:50 - IV. THE FIRST RADICALS 00:50:43 - V. THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF JERUSALEM 01:08:19 - VI. THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK 01:36:40 - VII. THE LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE BIBLE

Thank you so much for this!

"All is vanity, but who would not admit to enjoying a bit of roast beef?" William Makepeace Thackeray

Absolute artist

12:25 love those verses

What are the name of the painter and its title of the painting?

The Story of Civilzation: Book I - Our Oriental Heritage. The Near East: Judea pg.299-349 Pages 113 - 388 The Near East: Sumeria pg.116, Egypt pg.137, Babylonia pg.218, Assyria pg.265, Judea pg.299, Persia pg.350.

Can someone tell me where the tumbnail image is from?

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reference to Merneptah, 1225 , though Merneptah ruled from 1213-1203

@32:22 CULT of JAWEH/ A RELIGION OF FEAR RATHER THAN LOVE --

And incredible series of actual history from one of the best teams ever. So much better than the biased history courses of today where Western Thought is denigrated though it has given us virtually everything of value from the modern world. Nothing of STEM, or modern importance has come out of Africa in hundreds of years...similar to the Chinese, who until their "Great Steal Forward" lived in a backward serfdom adding nothing to the modern world for hundreds of years. Yet afrocentric professors spew their bile everywhere in the US...Science, medicine, engineering, you name it, all come from Western Civilization....via the Greeks, and the pre-Islamic Arabs who translated and saved much of Greek civilization. Thanks Rocky

Do you have a page in Arabic?

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RAMESES was the Pharaoh at the time of the Exodus.

U got to control your numbers so nobody else gotta

@33:40 LIFE AFTER DEATH/RESURRECTION/ HEAVEN n HELL ( Not Jewish or Christian, these hugely important religious ideas taken from Persians, Egyptians & Greeks...the Immortal Soul is gift of Socrates)

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Regular listener--- great content. Does youtube force the use of cheesy, AI-gen ,soft-core p0rn0 thumbnails? So far removed from what is presented.

2200 b.c not 22000

although Mr Durant is erudite in the extreme one worries' that his political prejudices obstruct his objectivity as in "the brave Jews have returned to their homeland after eighteen hundred years" but he omits to add that the land which they voluntarily abandoned in 96 CE had been occupied continuously by the descendants of the Canaanites, the Palestinians so please if occupying land for 1800 years means that you still cannot claim ownership then that applies to the current occupants of every country on earth he also seems to consider the Bible to be an accurate historical document whereas current scholarship considers it to be an amalgamation of tribal mythologies at best and certainly not a certificate of title to the territories under Zionist military occupation

Judea's influence was by no means greater than Persia or Babylonia or Greece!

1:18:19 The 3rd commandment does not testify about the later custom of Jews to never express the name Jahwe (Jehova). Here is why: In exodus 20 it says: "[Do] not take the name of the LORD your God IN VAN, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain." What is "in vain"? probably for swearing: I swear by God that... - when the swearing testifies an untruth. But you are to call him by his name" God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: Yahweh, the God of your ancestors-the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob-has sent me to you. This is my eternal name, my name to remember for all generations." (Exodus 3:15) In other words, God of the 10 commandments says explicitly: Tell them to call me JHVA (Jehova, Jahawe). The special care of religious jews to not say the name that God told them to say is contradictory to God's commandment, however can be explained by their great worry lest they "take it "in vain"", so to be on the safe side, they replace it by a variety of non-names.

Pilate had no idea that there was a Jesus. If there even was... I have extreme disdain for academically bad history.

I don't like how Durant refers to both the Israelites and the tribe of Judea as Jews.

amazing.. he said Corn was grown there in ancient times? nope.. not til 1500 AD.. certainly not before Jesus. that is the flaw in old historical narrative.

Moses was by no means a historical personage. This is too myth-heavy.

I'm very disappointed in the snarky tone that Durant takes with this subject matter.

If Durant bothered to use footnotes, we'd know that he blindly followed contemporary atheistic libertarianism, selectively raiding Calvin et al for a republicanism that protected them. It takes a lot of hubris to write a correct narrative of history, and his obvious narrative excellence to sell it.