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In 1890, archaeologists opened an Egyptian tomb and found something that should have been impossible. Painted on the wall, vibrant and preserved for 4,000 years, was a scene of foreign visitors entering Egypt. They weren't Egyptian. They were Semitic. They carried advanced weapons, wore multi-colored royal coats, and their leader was identified by a specific name: Abisha. For over a century, most scholars have treated this as just a generic scene of ancient trade. But what if they missed the most explosive detail of all?In this episode, we’re dusting off the file on the "Abisha" painting to investigate a mystery hiding in plain sight. I'll break down the linguistic clues, the timeline, and the visual evidence that challenges everything we think we know about the book of Genesis. If this really is Abraham, then we have to completely rewrite our mental image of the Bible’s most famous patriarch.BLK SHP Hats: https://blkshp.printful.me Join the BLK SHP Insiders at https://www.facebook.com/share/g/19xgiprR8h/ Sponsored by ServeHQ - Train church volunteers easy: https://servehq.churchLEARN MORE ABOUT ABISHA AND BENI HASANBeni Hasan by Percy Newberry: https://amzn.to/4aKjq6WAsiatics in Middle Kingdom Egypt: Perceptions and Reality by Phyllis Saretta https://amzn.to/4q92LhXIsrael in Egypt: The Evidence for the Authenticity of the Exodus Tradition by James K. Hoffmeier https://amzn.to/48VMfuPAncient Egypt and the Old Testament by John D. Currid https://amzn.to/4oMXuvhPharaohs and Kings: A Biblical Quest by David Rohl https://amzn.to/3YvoCURThe Hyksos: New Historical and Archaeological Perspectives by Eliezer D. Oren https://amzn.to/4pXUY6oOn the Reliability of the Old Testament by K.A. Kitchen https://amzn.to/4q1ufWDEgypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times by Donald B. Redford https://amzn.to/3MGd66uArchaeology and the Old Testament by Alfred J. Hoerth https://amzn.to/4q3MyKRThe Pentateuch as Narrative by John Sailhamer https://amzn.to/48zbGmW#BiblicalArchaeology #AncientHistory #Abraham #Genesis #BeniHasan #BibleMystery #ChristianApologetics #OldTestament #BiblicalHistory
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Is humanity really 6,000 years old? The Bible never actually says that number, but here's how millions of Christians get there, and why the math might not hold up the way we've always assumed.In this video we look closely at Genesis 5, the genealogy from Adam to Noah that's usually treated as a straightforward chronology. But when you compare it to the other genealogies in Genesis, Genesis 4, Genesis 10, and even the two genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke, a different pattern shows up. Not every genealogy in Scripture is tracking years lived.We'll walk through:- Where the "6,000 years" number actually comes from, and why it's not a direct quote from the Bible- Why Genesis 10 tracks nations, Genesis 4 tracks culture, and Genesis 5 does something else entirely- The Hebrew names in Genesis 5, read together, and what they might be quietly saying- The 600 year gap between the Hebrew text and the Greek Septuagint, and why two faithful manuscript traditions could disagree by that much- Why the ages in Genesis 5 might be marking covenant headship instead of a stopwatchThis video doesn't answer how old humanity actually is. That's next. Once you stop treating these genealogies as a countdown, the door opens to a different investigation entirely, and that's exactly where we're headed in the next video.Chapters:0:00 6,000 Years?4:47 Technical Details8:16 What is a Genealogy?17:19 Septuagint Timeline19:34 Theological ConclusionMy book, Dynasty of Slaves: https://amzn.to/4wD4wasMy Substack & Newsletter: https://blkshpbible.substack.com/
Videos mentioned:- https://youtu.be/0mtJLz8Fhrk- https://youtu.be/2rHOS5pDKMU- https://youtu.be/tqjIb6jHWP0Jasher essay: https://substack.com/@blkshpbible/note/p-197362578?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1sac7zThere are books that used to be in your Bible. They sat between Malachi and Matthew for almost two thousand years, read by the apostles, quoted by Jude, printed in every King James Bible until the early 1800s. Then they disappeared. Almost nobody noticed.In this video I investigate what these books actually are, what's inside them, why serious scholars and church fathers took them seriously for centuries, and what really happened to get them removed. The answer isn't what most people think, and it involves a committee, a printing press, and a five-year public fight that ended with existing copies being pulped and printing plates destroyed.I also give you my verdict as both an academic and a pastor on where these books belong and whether you should be reading them.Topics covered:- The world that produced these books and why- The shape of biblical apocalyptic writing- What happened to the Apocrypha, from Jerome to Luther to 1826- Why the doubt about these books was legitimate- Where they actually belong alongside Bunyan, Tolkien, Lewis, and Blackaby- The Book of Jasher and why most copies floating around today are a deliberate fraudPlus: three member videos on How We Got Our Bible are open to everyone this week.
Get the full research behind this video in my book, Dynasty of Slaves: https://amzn.to/43XkQqbJoin BLK SHP Bible Notes on Substack for the written deep dives: https://blkshpbible.substack.comBefore Moses ever raised his staff in front of Pharaoh, he'd already been erased from Egypt's official history once.This video traces two stories that almost every retelling skips past. The first is political: an exiled general, branded a traitor and written out of the royal record, who came back to demand the release of an enslaved nation. The second is cosmic: a pantheon of gods that had spent centuries collecting worship that was never theirs, watching that worship dismantled one plague at a time.Each of the ten plagues targeted a specific Egyptian deity, from Hapi and the Nile to Ra and the sun itself. Exodus 12:12 names exactly who stood on trial that night: "for I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD."We'll also work through why Pharaoh's heart got hardened, what the historical record from Amenhotep II's reign reveals about what happened after the Exodus, and how a Midianite priest with no stake in Israel's covenant ended up confessing that the LORD is greater than all gods.Two thrones. Ten plagues. One God who never lost the fight.#Exodus #Egyptology #BibleHistory #Moses #TenPlagues #DivineCouncil #Archaeology
My Book: Dynasty of Slaves - https://amzn.to/4ut75ugMy Blog: https://blkshpbible.substack.com- Melchizedek video: https://youtu.be/b_QpN0VRndQ- Urmonotheismus video: https://youtu.be/Kp7qMJcknzw- Nimrod video: https://youtu.be/qbtnHTSySl0Archaeologists digging in the Sinai desert found ancient Hebrew inscriptions that seem to place a goddess named Asherah right next to the name of the God of Israel. Thousands of female figurines turned up in homes and villages across ancient Judah. Scholars looked at the evidence and reached a conclusion that's spreading everywhere now: the God of the Bible had a wife, monotheism was a late invention, and the Old Testament buried the real religion of real Israelites.So what does it all mean?
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