Genesis, but only the really messed-up parts - Abrahamic Mythology Explained

I might need it for this one

[JakeDoubleyoo]

Oopsie, the correct quote for 7:37 is:
His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady. Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, “Get me this young lady as a wife.”
Genesis 34:3‭-‬4 WEBUS

Gen 1:1-4 is my placeholder text.

[nameistanya]

As a jewish person, i can tell you we were DEFINITELY told most of this as children and just REALLY didn't register it-

[DrakonHype--]

As a Christian kid who was forced to attend Sunday school, I can confirm most of this wasn’t told to us.

[CanonessEllinor]

Somewhat off-topic but can I just say that I love how you depict biblical characters with the colorful clothes and flashy jewelry they would have actually worn (if they were real historical people) instead of the traditional but completely wrong white togas and austere brown-on-brown esthetic you see in bible movies.

[alpacamaster]

You forgot the part where Jacob sleeps with his wife Rachel on his wedding night but gets massive post nut clarity and realises it is her sister Leah.

[sys]

I grew up as a fundamentalist Christian, so none of this is new to me, but it's strange being reminded of how effed up everything is and how much it's just glossed over. We definitely never had these characters on the felt story

[riseandshine]

Hey, a Hebrew speaking Jew here, and in Dinah's story, the literal translation of the word "ויענה" is "and then he tortured her" which is used multiple times in the Tanakh to describe rape.

[thegayghost]

“Are you done haggling with the supreme ruler of the universe?” summarizes a lot of myths

[ego-lay_atman-bay]

I really like how you make videos about the bible. Unlike other youtubers, you put the references up on screen for what you're currently talking about, and you don't misinterpret things. Keep up the good work.

[ninjoshday]

"And just as a warning, this video contains stuff that happens in the bible"

Funniest content warning I've ever heard

[smz]

I love how this messed-up parts often tries to convey some moral message as we see how the author purposedly placed a random story of Judah in Genesis 38 while describing the story of Joseph to contrast Joseph's encounter in Genesis 39.

[dihexa]

I’m a Christian, although I’ve never attended Sunday school. The whole concept is so bizarre to me, trying to make kid-friendly fairytales out of the most adult stories imaginable, with more sex and bloodshed than a Tarantino movie

[NewLightning]

03:33 "The men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter." The implication is CRAZY

[charbird]

As a Roman Catholic, some of these stories were told later on in our education, and we were even encouraged to dive deeper and read lesser known stories on our own.

[Somebody_Maybe]

As a Christian who grow up in a Christian household I can indeed say I knew almost all of these things (I actually read my Bible)

[Batsyblu]

as a person raised in a christian household, watching the live chat made me laugh so hard.

[YehudiNimol]

As someone who grew up Orthodox Jewish, I have to praise you for your accuracy. Most of the people who discuss these stories usually get a lot of things wrong or just focus on the most outrageous aspects of it (he married his cousin at a time when it was a common custom? No but you actually do a pretty good job focusing on the intricacies and different interpretations of what was written. You did omit a couple of things, like how God didn't even find 10 GOOD PEOPLE in Sodom & Gomorrah, or how the origin stories in Genesis are meant to establish relationships between nations, but overall you did a much better job than anyone I've seen on this site at conveying the original meaning of the texts.

[emmie-ct]

This is giving me flashbacks of that one time I read all of Genesis when I was twelve. Thanks, Jake. Thanks for rediscovering that traumatic memory.

[thomasrinschler]

I've found that most people basically know the Lot story through Sodom and his wife turning into salt. But telling them what happens next with his daughters has usually been skipped in their Sunday school educations, and they won't believe you until you pull up an actual Bible and have them read it themselves. It gets a lot of "What the...." reactions.

[bobagingo_]

hi jake ur animations are pretty cool and i didnt even know a single thing about greek mythology until ur vids so thank you soooo much <3