Revisiting the Apocrypha

At 7:18, the lady who “heard a rumor” about Alexander the Great’s death, pretty sure that is Alexander’s still-living wife trying to solve his murder. She walks the earth seeking out the identity of Alexander’s “right hand man”

These lectures are fascinating but they would run more smoothly, if questions were left for after the main presentation.

I watch at least one of these every day. This one by far had my favorite moment. "Ooohhh that's big!!!" Yah granny thats how the Hamer drops.

Great job laying out a good overview of the entire region and flow of time.

I am incorporating the Book of Tobit into my DnD campaign. It's just too wonderful to use as story arch in my story about battling gods that have visited chaos in the world. Thank you, John, for introducing me to this extraordinary and wonderful narrative. It is awesome!

Great Programming folks. God bless you all

Please do questions at end. Thanks

So I'm not religious, but I consider myself very spiritual. This is extremely thought provoking material and it fascinates me! Thank you for uploading!

The lecture is Great cool ...It shows logically & big reason and why.I recommend

🌺thank you, i really enjoyed this lecture🌺

Thank you from Argentina, again.

“Hidden” in this case means obscured. I offer an example. I’m going to make up a secret verse to illustrate. There are three layers to this. And this one is specifically non religious, but is spiritual. An anchored ship cannot sail. 1. Literal. A ship that is anchored isn’t going anywhere. Looks outward to the physical world. 2. Metaphorically- I’m the ship. Sailing is life. Hanging on to my dead end job, lack of education, bad relationship, etc is holding me back. I need to let go of my fears in order to succeed to my fullest potential. Looks outward to the physical world. 3. Metaphorically- I’m the ship and sailing is life again. But this time, it’s about our soul, heart, life experiences. Inside of me, hanging on to anger, shame, judgement, prejudices, inner hurt, prevents us from living to our full potential no matter where we go in the physical world. This time, the verse is turned inward, to instruct healing. What is hidden inside the magical verse, is the instructions to rid what we hide inside of us. Sirac didn’t know layer three. He dismissed the surface layer. Destroy your enemy Sirac- kill those bad guys. Jesus- kill what you carry inside of you that hurts you. Your real enemies are what you carry within you.

Really interesting lectures. Thanks for sharing. Would really enjoy hearing your thoughts on 'the immortality key' by Brian C. Muraresku

Names in Tobit: Tobias is probably Tobiah or Tuvia in Hebrew- "God is good". Raphael- is straight Hebrew- God heals" (totally appropriate). Other angel names are also Hebrew- Gabriel "God is my hero", Uriel "God is my light", Michael "who is like God".

It would only make sense for Loki to lecture on apocryphal works

That is an amazing graphic about the time periods between the Bible Testaments, and I am too lazy to look all of that up so happy someone had the motivation to do it for me.

A brilliant historical journey clearly demonstrating that the 'old testament' canon we have today is a hotchpotch collection of writings - selected, edited and revised down through many centuries to try and create a consistent narrative out of inherently conflicting ideas and concepts. This is hardly a ringing endorsement of any divine inspiration. A similar process applies to the 'new testament' and this begs the question as to how much of the Bible actually reflects any divinely revealed truth.

Simply amazing lectures and I enjoy having the questions immediately within the train of thought.

All questions and audience side comments should come at them end.

When will you do a lecture on the book of Hebrews in relation to this