Gil Kidron
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House of the Dragon: How Chance Events Shape History
House of the Dragon season 1 concluded with a series of three chance events that took the realm into civil war. What role does chance have in history? And in storytelling?
Check out our podcast As Depicted on Film shows.acast.com/62a1990d3786050011c494c2
Check out Gil's podcast A Podcast of Biblical Proportions a-podcast-of-biblical-proportions-4515049a.simplecast.com/
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What is Wrong with House of the Dragon?
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What is wrong with House of the Dragon? Is it a myopic show or is it a show whose myopic perspective is a criticism towards the ruling class? Check out our podcast As Depicted on Film shows.acast.com/62a1990d3786050011c494c2 Check out Gil's podcast A Podcast of Biblical Proportions a-podcast-of-biblical-proportions-4515049a.simplecast.com/
House of the Dragon Episode 2: Sensitive Nuclear Material Taken Home
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House of the Dragon episode 2 tells the tragic story of princes and princesses who can't get everything they want all the time. A horrowing tale. A Podcast of Biblical Proportions shows.acast.com/6059f3496d8d6f4db88ee71b/episodes As Depicted on Film shows.acast.com/62a1990d3786050011c494c2
House of the Dragon: What is it ACTUALLY About?
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House of the Dragon, the new Game of Thrones show, just aired its first episode. Kudos for the creators on regaining relevance. A Podcast of Biblical Proportions shows.acast.com/6059f3496d8d6f4db88ee71b/episodes As Depicted on Film shows.acast.com/62a1990d3786050011c494c2
The Many Writing Layers of Jacob
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They say that the winners get to write history, but the Hebrews lost alongside the Philistines to the Babylonian juggernaut who exiled the vanquished from their land. But the Hebrew losers had something their petty rivals and co-losers Philistines did not have - a book. And billions have read it. So we have a negative perception of the Philistines. But how would they tell their own story? Liste...
Jacob is the first COMPLETE Character of Genesis
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They say that the winners get to write history, but the Hebrews lost alongside the Philistines to the Babylonian juggernaut who exiled the vanquished from their land. But the Hebrew losers had something their petty rivals and co-losers Philistines did not have - a book. And billions have read it. So we have a negative perception of the Philistines. But how would they tell their own story? Liste...
The Philistines of Genesis
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They say that the winners get to write history, but the Hebrews lost alongside the Philistines to the Babylonian juggernaut who exiled the vanquished from their land. But the Hebrew losers had something their petty rivals and co-losers Philistines did not have - a book. And billions have read it. So we have a negative perception of the Philistines. But how would they tell their own story? Liste...
Call Me Ishmael: Post-Biblical Universe
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Abraham's firstborn was Ishmael, but according to the Hebrew story, he was the lesser son because his mom was an Egyptian slave. He was a placeholder until the right son was born by Abraham's wife, Sarah. A miraculous menopausal birth. But there are many indications in the story that Ishmael was a far more prominent character in the ancient world, even if he had to wait 1000 years to get his du...
Samson Is In Fact A SATIRICAL PLAY!
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It turns out that if you read aloud the Samson story (Judges 13-16) in Hebrew as a script for a theater comedy - it morphs into an outrageously funny Greek satire that parodies biblical heroes and tropes. It was most likely written by Alexandrian Hellenistic Hebrews around the 200s BCE as a Hebrew version of Greek satire. To listen to all our episodes bit.ly/2VDZ8rW Visit our website podcastofb...
The Political Power of the Alphabet
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The phonetic alphabet was invented by the Phoenicians back in the 9-10 centuries BCE, very close to Ancient Israel and Judea. As that revolutionary concept spread out, the Hebrews had a headstart and right away put up their "national" stories and religion into writing, turning Ancient Israelites and Judeans into one people, after the former got destroyed by the Assyrians. the power of language ...
How Come Isaac is Such a LAME Character?
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After going through the myriad of stories about the first Hebrew patriarch, Abraham, we now get to his son Isaac. Even though he is supposed to be important, the biblical authors spend very little time and effort on developing his character and in making us care about him at all. That reveals the real purpose of Isaac in the biblical project. Listen to the full episode bit.ly/3opvalA For all ou...
The Death of Abraham
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Abraham is one of the most important characters of the bible. And now that he's gone and we went over all of his stories we want to better understand the different writers that put his stories down to text and what were they trying to do. Listen to the full episode bit.ly/3F91eAT For all our episodes bit.ly/2VDZ8rW Visit our website podcastofbiblicalproportions.com/ To support us on Patreon www...
Noah Movie Biblical Historical Review
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The Movie Noah (2014) is an ambitious and imaginative adaptation of the biblical tale, which is itself an adaptation to earlier flood and ark stories from Mesopotamia. Garry Stevens from The History in the Bible Podcast joins Gil and Rutger for a review. Listen to the full episode bit.ly/3p3PWZR For all our episodes www.ourpodacademy.com/podcast The History in the Bible Podcast www.historyinthe...
When Genesis Breaks Its Own Mold
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The story of Sodom and Gomorrah has remained iconic for 2,500 years, incorporated enthusiastically by later Abrahamic religions. But looking at it in its proper context, it is most likely a pre-religious story of city people breaking the laws of hospitality. Abraham gets his family deity to send in a SWAT team to extricate his brother from Sodom right before the carpet bombing. Listen to the fu...
The First Biblical War (in Siddim)
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The only honest-to-god heroics in the story of Abraham is his small part in a regional war between four Mesopotamian kings and five local Canaanite vassals. The Mesopotamians crush the insignificant rebellion and take goodies and captives up north. One of the captives is Abraham's brother Lot, which is why Abraham and 300 of his men carry out a night raid to free him and bring back the loot tak...
The Binding of Isaac is a Dramatic Short Story
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The Binding of Isaac is a Dramatic Short Story
The Sodom and Gomorrah Operation
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The Sodom and Gomorrah Operation
The Life and Death of Sarah
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The Life and Death of Sarah
Back to the Future Trilogy Revisited
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Back to the Future Trilogy Revisited
The Abraham-Yahweh Deal
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The Abraham-Yahweh Deal
The Biblical Male Gaze
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The Biblical Male Gaze
Abraham vs Other Founding Fathers
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Abraham vs Other Founding Fathers
The Tower of Babel Poem
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The Tower of Babel Poem
The First Biblical Cities
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The First Biblical Cities
The Flood: Noah is a Non-Hero
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The Flood: Noah is a Non-Hero
Context for the Noah Flood Story
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Context for the Noah Flood Story
The Adam's Family
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The Adam's Family
Cain and Abel: The First Conflict in the Book
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Cain and Abel: The First Conflict in the Book
The Garden of Eden Criminal Court
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The Garden of Eden Criminal Court
Julius Caesar on Film
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Julius Caesar on Film

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Fuarke
    @Fuarke 2 дні тому

    I was thinking about HotD last episode and then all of a sudden I got a flashback to the days when I watched and loved these Gil and Itamar discussions and breakdowns here at Got Academy XD Hello from 2024 hope you are doing well

  • @heshangunarathna3262
    @heshangunarathna3262 13 днів тому

    Even comparing them is an insult to mongols. Here is an interesting fanfic idea. Have Princess Khutulun from actual mongol empire reborn as danerys and gain her past life memories after burning all khals and gaining dothraki. I for once would love to see mongol tactics and war machine used in westeros. ( Well dany will have to beat their stupidity of not wearing armours out and change their primary weapons )

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 15 днів тому

    3:59 Aragon and Castile

  • @ILOVEGOOOOOOLD
    @ILOVEGOOOOOOLD 25 днів тому

    Cersei deserved a much more painful death

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 Місяць тому

    3:51

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 Місяць тому

    6:28 Medieval NGO😂 8:35 legitimize the ruler

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 Місяць тому

    7:06 proof u need a leviathan

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 Місяць тому

    4:07😂

  • @RaynesX
    @RaynesX Місяць тому

    Hi Itamar

  • @subversivelysurreal3645
    @subversivelysurreal3645 Місяць тому

    Gil, you look A LOT like Tayab Ali!

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 Місяць тому

    4:35 6:47😂 7:32

  • @VoxRatio
    @VoxRatio Місяць тому

    Tell me you haven’t read Tolkien’s works without telling me. Kind of sad this channel faded into obscurity before you could be properly read.

  • @megamovieman101
    @megamovieman101 Місяць тому

    To be fair, I appreciate Benioff telling me the characters didn’t want to die. Because their plan in the episode suggested otherwise

  • @axilleas68di
    @axilleas68di 2 місяці тому

    Il satan samail typhoon seth yahve sabbaoth enlil metatron adonai is the father of Hebrews demons and masons.

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 2 місяці тому

    8:52 Borgia

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 3 місяці тому

    1:47 Gil explained a sociopath😂😮

  • @Evan7xXx7
    @Evan7xXx7 3 місяці тому

    This goes far harder than it needs to

  • @gooby214
    @gooby214 3 місяці тому

    The Faith and the new High Septon did nothing wrong (well, in the books at least).

  • @raylast3873
    @raylast3873 3 місяці тому

    I mean, the thing is that the medieval peasantry has extremely limited class consciousness. Yes there is probably some degree to which many of them regard themselves as separate from or even opposed to the aristocracy, but they don‘t really have class solidarity. There‘s no faction Davos could join that would explicitly work to support his old smuggler and fisher friends and their family. Outside of a handful of peasant conspiracies, which incidentally happened in the early Renaissance, that sort of thing didn‘t happen; unless it took the form of Religious movements like the Hussites. But they ain‘t got that during most of Davos‘ life, either.

  • @EpioN
    @EpioN 3 місяці тому

    Gil, do you support the Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people?

  • @cartmanofsp
    @cartmanofsp 3 місяці тому

    Coming back to these videos to watch the amazing intros and good insight 😂😂

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 3 місяці тому

    6:56 it’s Boudica 10:38 Moors

  • @ribkan4759
    @ribkan4759 3 місяці тому

    I’ve read 1:55 too 😂

  • @DanielLopez-zt4ig
    @DanielLopez-zt4ig 4 місяці тому

    I have read The Ingenious Hobbit Mister Frodo of the Shire many times.

  • @Danlovar
    @Danlovar 4 місяці тому

    3:31 How do you reach to the conclusion that it was Gandalf who was telling Frodo to take off the ring? If the text were "realism" it would imply that Gandalf actually did not die in Moria? 14:07 Sam knows exactly how to use the ring in Mordor because of having seen Frodo's relationship of domination over Gollum, and he seeing himself as a lord of the ring is exactly what happened when Frodo tried to give the ring to Galadriel, but the narrator forgets to reminds us that Sam was also there. Great video!!

  • @jameseardley6929
    @jameseardley6929 4 місяці тому

    This video aged like a vintage.

  • @kage9719
    @kage9719 4 місяці тому

    "I always hated the bells. They ring for horror." - Varys

  • @adrianleverkin5226
    @adrianleverkin5226 5 місяців тому

    HS disgust's me

  • @wendyc1902
    @wendyc1902 5 місяців тому

    Miss you Gil I totally didn't get to see your HoTD content! Can't wait to catch up. Hope you and yours are doing well 🙏

  • @Hannibal31-tx5is
    @Hannibal31-tx5is 5 місяців тому

    There is a great gem of a youtube video I found that's about this "historical chance" topic, in particular it links WW1 as you guys mention with the mathematical topic of chaos and fractals. This video made me think of that. (It's called "why ww1 was just bad luck: chaos theory & fractals")

  • @exKvirit
    @exKvirit 6 місяців тому

    I wanted to know, what do you think about Bernie Sanders now.

  • @mattameta
    @mattameta 6 місяців тому

    I am you son and you are me dad

  • @alfred8294
    @alfred8294 7 місяців тому

    Gil, what are your thoughts on the Israel-Gaza war? It would be interesting to hear a more intelligent and balanced view on how things can move forward. Specially as the narrative of what the Jewish people now are thinking is presented by people like Ben Gvir. Maybe you and your buddies can present a different view of what the Israeli people actually think? Hope you are well!

  • @MsMotoconcho
    @MsMotoconcho 8 місяців тому

    This is great

  • @karenlaterf8088
    @karenlaterf8088 8 місяців тому

    Best wishes to you Gil, and Itamar, & others! I hope you and all your loved ones, are OK right now! Best Wishes! :)

  • @karenlaterf8088
    @karenlaterf8088 8 місяців тому

    I hope both you guys are OK right now! You and your loved ones!

  • @BSenta
    @BSenta 8 місяців тому

    This is what's going to happen to the Gaza strip...

  • @samvimes5124
    @samvimes5124 8 місяців тому

    My mother was nearly at full term with me when the explosion happened at the cutlery factory where she worked. No one should ever have to feel ashamed of being born with a silver spoon up their arse. Gil,.............you're a monster.

  • @carolinanome1089
    @carolinanome1089 8 місяців тому

    came back to watch your videos many many years later and am shocked at how accurate your predictions and discussions were! high quality stuff

  • @jakobson219
    @jakobson219 9 місяців тому

    This podcast sounds like a hoax. The story of Samson is a satire but only if you read it in Hebrew! Otherwise, take our word for it. BS of Biblical proportions.

  • @EasternOrthodox101
    @EasternOrthodox101 9 місяців тому

    🤺☦🇷🇺Wrong. Here is the serious correct and accurate analysis of the holy verses: ✅Tishdal or Tishatal the Hurrians from Zagros & Urkesh = Tidal / Goyim = Gutium ✅Epirmupil = Amrapel / Sumer = Sumer (also ensi of Elam, subordinate of Zimri Lim) ❓Rim Sin I (Eriaku) or Arvilukpi of Marhasi (c. 2050 BC contemporary with Amar-Sin king of Ur) = Arioch / Ellasar = Isin-Larsa-Eshnnuna (or a ruler of Alishar Huyuk, Pontus, Dilmun, Meluhha or Magan) ✅Canaanite priest of the Jebusites = Malchizedek ❓Kudu-Lagamar = Chedorlaomer (unknown Maharsi ruler of Elamites?)

  • @exfromtheleft
    @exfromtheleft 9 місяців тому

    this analysys is as boring as the show with an elitist point of view

  • @dabarworshipcenter
    @dabarworshipcenter 10 місяців тому

    😂😂😂 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾💯✔👌🏾👍🏾👍🏾 Great break down!!!

  • @nahgianawilliams3341
    @nahgianawilliams3341 10 місяців тому

    Great thanks for the alternative guys 🤨🤨🤨🤷🏾‍♂️

  • @OsamanseImalele
    @OsamanseImalele 10 місяців тому

    41:08 😂

  • @vap0rtranz
    @vap0rtranz 11 місяців тому

    I came to the same conclusion. The High Sparrow Movement should have succeeded because it was the common people vs. the Lords & Ladies. These guys are spot on: religion can be an instrument for good or evil. (However, if the High Sparrow had succeeded, Westeros may have fallen apart and been ill-prepared for the last battle with the Night King ... we'll never know.)

  • @blakejones409
    @blakejones409 11 місяців тому

    I miss this dude. The OG co-host.

  • @kidgforce1
    @kidgforce1 Рік тому

    Daenerys ideas are somehow schizo: Wanting to break the wheel is the opposite of becoming queen.

  • @abdulazimnaushad
    @abdulazimnaushad Рік тому

    Also Christopher Lee is a direct connection to both franchises since he plays a good guy turned bad. In LOTR he plays Saruman who was an Istari or one of the good wizards until he betrayed Gandalf and his kind and sided with Sauron because he was tempted by the dark lord’s power. In Star Wars he plays Count Dooku who was a noble Jedi that turned to the dark side and became a Sith Lord allied with Palpatine/Sidious as he was not only tempted by the dark side but wanted to destroy what he saw as a corrupt Galactic Republic.

  • @bgcvetan
    @bgcvetan Рік тому

    As mainstream media might say, Mostly peaceful protester.