Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "Who Wrote the Apocrypha? (Deuterocanon)" video.

I'll be doing a Hebrew evolution series on my channel.
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Meqabyan is one of those mysteries that I really wish there was more contemporary context for. Historians are pretty sure now that Jews arrived in Ethiopia in the 1st century CE, yet not only is the actual history of the Maccabees missing, but there's...like...a Maccabees fanfic borrowing elements from the First Temple Period? And we don't know how much the Jews influenced early Ethiopian Christianity or vice-versa. It's endlessly frustrating.
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@ikr9358 Oh goodness no; the minhag of the Beta Israel is way more consistent with Second Temple Judaism; it just never got the Talmud or subsequent consensus writings (why they were so isolated when the Indian Ocean trade was right there is something I hope to research). First Temple Judaism wasn't even technically monotheist.
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@ruthanneseven That's actually the legendary origin story of the Solomonic Dynasty, not really related to the Beta Israel, who probably crossed over from Yemen around the same time Jews were also arriving in India.
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