Does Bronze Age Archaeology Support the Bible?

Special Thanks to:
@ReligionForBreakfast
@TabletsAndTemples
@DigItWithRaven
@AlMuqaddimahYT
@DigitalHammurabi

Raven's book:

37 Bible Characters Found Through Archaeology:

CREDITS:
Chart & Narration by Matt Baker
Animation by Syawish Rehman
Audio editing by Ali Shahwaiz

[ReligionForBreakfast]

What an honor to appear alongside so many great YouTubers! Thanks for the invite!

[MrARock]

Imagine being Amminadab, fresh into the iron-age, with your iron tools and your iron weapons, meanwhile your dad, Ram, is still living in the bronze-age, embarassing you in front of your friends with his inferior alloys.

[Catmint]

“We do have the name of someone from the Bronze Era you probably know”
Me:

[deonmurphy]

That “commemorative plaque” in Saudi Arabia says right on it that it is “Red Sea Coastal Survey”. So it is what it says a survey marker, not a commemorative plaque.

[marcuscicero]

With the Egyptian Pharoah being the oldest confirmed person on this list, does it make it "Shoshenq's Redemption"?

[julieblair]

So silly of me to forget to take photos of the archaeological evidence I find when filming my history-changing documentary.

[TabletsAndTemples]

Thanks so much for having me! Had a lot of fun researching Mat the miner! Good company to be in.

[ctusiard]

Most ambitious crossover since Endgame.

[jannetteberends]

17:24 “people erect religious monuments all the time”. Although not religious, Hans Brinker immediately crossed my mind.
He was made up by an American author, based on an older story. It’s about a boy that saved the day by putting his thumb in a hole in a dyke. A lot of Americans thought it really happened, so when they visited the Netherlands asked where it happened.
So the Dutch put up a statue of made up Hans near Haarlem, a city close to Amsterdam. It’s now imported Dutch folklore.

There is actually a real story that is a bit similar. In 1953, with the North Sea Flood, a piece of a dyke near Rotterdam was destroyed by the water. Thousands of lives were in danger. A captain nearby drove his boat in the gap and saved Rotterdam and environment.
This is also what really happens when a dyke break through. When you see water coming through the dyke, it’s already too late. That part of the dyke will collapse soon.

[D.Delanoaraem]

Ron Wyatt going strong with the "trust me, bro" proof. "The writing on the pillar got erased, but I know what they said. Trust me, bro". "I don't need to do a paper on it, I know what I saw. Trust me bro"

[TheLordnib]

About the disarticulated bones from the sea floor, I was under the impression that they dissolve in about 5 years, but I just looked it up and they can dissolve in about 1 years time.

[delbomb]

So Ron found a 3000 year old pillar in Egypt that had carvings when he found it, and in the same location within a few years all the carvings had eroded away? 🤔🤔

[rtbinc]

I really liked this and love the collaboration, but I have some quibbles as someone trained in Archaeology. Matt Baker should point out that thinking you can find archaeological evidence of someone specifically from the Bronze age is just really Bizarre. Egypt and Babylon were almost unique on having writing as a common-ish technology. We don't have names from the Minoan Civilization, or really from Mycenaeans either. The Homeric Epics are from Mycenaean origins, but don't provide a name list. I think this point should be framed as the kind of evidence of individuals that exist from the Iron age was a result of the shift to all sorts of new technologies. It just wasn't a thing in the Bronze age. Any evidence of Moses should be treated with the greatest skepticism on simple dating. It's is as bad as wondering why you don't find steel, because it's the Bronze age and they didn't do that then.

[PhantomHarlock]

You could do a collab with Esoterica channel for a timeline chart of Yahweh.

[biedl]

3 of my favorite channels in a colab. This must turn out good.

[loganl]

4:10 I love that this came out in time for parshat Balak, the weekly Torah reading where Balaam makes his appearance!

[Cascalore]

This is like Woodstock for no-nonsense educational Biblical archaeology. Now we just need to get Miniminuteman in here.

[jehl]

At about 22:00 you write off Moses as a literary character. The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It would most likely be safer to say that he has not been attested to in the archeolgical record.
On the other hand, you omit a huge Bronze Age Biblical reference which was not attested to in the archeological record -- until it was. This is the Hittites. Until the mid-19th century, the only references to the Hittites were in the Bible. This Bronze-age culture was lost to the Greeks and the Romans. Yet the Bible not only mentions them at the appropriate times, but also accurately alludes to their changing political structures - something that would have been virtually impossible for Babylonian-exile-era writers to do in an age before archeology..

[jamesjaudon]

Correction. "By the time they put pen too paper" that lasted till our age. They made copies of old stuff back then as well.

[ArturoSubutex]

I always thought that Judeans/Israelis being "slaves in Egypt" and then being "freed" might just be some memory of Egypt conquering them before they regained their independence.