The Sabbath: Not As Old As You Think

Shabbat by its very name indicates cessation of work, and it's mentioned in the 7th-century BCE Metzad Hashavyahu inscription in the context of fieldwork. It's also clear from Amos (8:5), a very early book, that commerce was restricted on Shabbat.

Metzad Hashavyahu is a very difficult text to read and that reading is highly conjectural and rejected by many scholars. As for Amos, note that there too it comes together with the New Moon — so that whatever he is criticizing the rich for doing on that day applies to both.

I love your work but this is misleading. “…זכור את יום השבת” (Exodus 20:8) It’s part of the 10 commandments and that excerpt mentions explicitly not doing work. The fact that it wasn’t observed in the temple during Jeremiah’s time is more of a commentary of the decay of Jewish traditions around the time of Babylonian exile rather than the fact that “it only appeared” then. This is quite a common thread throughout the tanakh (post-Moses), whereby the Jewish people went through ebbs and flows of observance levels. Its enforcement has nothing to do with its “appearance”

Yes. It follows from what I am saying in this video that the 10 Commandments are also Exilic if not later. Note that Mount Sinai and the 10 Commandments are also not mentioned in the DH and in the early Nevi’im.

@haaretz staff Islamic style beard This is anti Judaism for $. Qatar needs better people for this. Secular Jews w beards not to be trusted @barak_ehud

@Haaretz @barak_ehud Is that what the voices in your head told you to say?

At this point, I'm confident he's just trolling.

So your premise is that Nehemia is shocked to see the Jews in Israel not keeping a holiday they adopted five minutes ago in Babylonia, and then writes or re-writes the 5 Books of Moses to make it an essential component of the religion retroactively. wow, makes sense!

This is the second video of yours that, for some odd reason, has ended up in my timeline. Apparently, your whole shtick is confidently asserting things about which you know nothing about. It's just ignorance, and frankly, stupidity.

Simply demonstrably false. In Jeremiah 17 he criticizes the people of Jerusalem for violating the Sabbath and doesn't mention the new moon.

Yes. Jeremiah 17 is a later addition to the book. There are a number of these in Jeremiah.