15 MITOS y MENTIRAS de la Biblia que resultaron ser ciertas

15 myths and supposed lies from the Bible that turned out to be true For many years the existence of characters cities places and objects mentioned The Bible was called into question and although these denials were often driven by rivalry religious beliefs were sustained by the lack of evidence to confirm them All of this despite various extrabiblical sources such as ancient historians Flavius Josephus Philo of Alexandria and Tacitus had all affirmed the authenticity of many of these figures and locations Cities such as Ur Nineveh and Nazareth were regarded as dubious places of existence in antiquity until archaeological excavations revealed its historical authenticity Likewise famous biblical figures including David Cyrus the Great and Hezekiah Caiaphas and Pontius Pilate were once considered likely legendary figures until archaeological discoveries confirmed their existence Workers in Jerusalem accidentally discovered the tomb of the man who ordered the execution of Jesus A man could exist even if the place where he was raised never did Was Pontius Pilate a real person or merely a fictional villain created for the story of Jesus Before diving in don't forget to subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to stay updated with our latest releases It was said that Nazareth did not exist during Jesus' time One of the arguments often used to deny Jesus as a historical figure The fact is that Nazareth the place where he was raised did not exist at that time This claim is dismissed as illogical by the American scholar in the New Testament by Bart Ehrman a skeptic of religious beliefs who claims I could easily counter this argument by pointing out its irrelevance If Jesus existed as the evidence suggests but Nazareth did not as this claim asserts then he must have come from somewhere else However what matters most is that Nazareth existed during Jesus' time It has been confirmed by various archaeological findings indicating that the area was already inhabited in the first century CE Hellenistic and early Roman artifacts including lamps a kitchen jug and Fragments of pottery discovered during the 1969 excavations in Nazareth provide a context from the first century At the end of the twentieth century excavations at the Well of Mary ancient spring in Nazareth They uncovered coins from the Hellenistic and early Roman periods undoubtedly used during the time of Jesus Later a first-century Nazarene dwelling was discovered still preserving its doors and windows intact In 2015 archaeologist Ken Dark discovered evidence of early Christian veneration on the site suggesting it may have been the childhood home of Jesus Although even several decades ago evidence regarding the existence of Nazareth in the firs The people were poor during the first century CE but more recent research has conclusively shown that the community already existed during the time of Christ According to these findings in the time of Jesus Nazareth was a small village of about 50 omes inhabited by modest and devout Jews 2 The existence of Cyrus the Great Between 1876 and 1882 the archaeologist Hormann Rassam working on behalf of the British Museum made a significant number of groundbreaking discoveries in Babylon Nineveh and other locations sites including the Epic of Gilgamesh the first known literary text and the Cylinder of Cyrus The Cylinder of Cyrus stands as one of the most significant pieces of evidence regarding the existence Cyrus the Great the Persian king who founded the Achaemenid dynasty in the 6th century BCE This clay tablet preserved in London England at the British Museum contains A proclamation of Cyrus the Great in Akkadian Babylonian cuneiform The text marked an unprecedented milestone in respect and tolerance for diversity ancient peoples and beliefs to the extent that it is recognized as the world's first declaration of human rights Through this decree Cyrus freed the slaves and proclaimed racial equality declared that all peoples had the right to choose their own religion and established respect for the customs and traditions of ethnic minorities The text commemorates the capture of Babylon by the Persian king in 539 BCE and the subseque restoration of the city and was established shortly after the conquest of Babylon in 539 BCE during the reign of Cyrus When Cyrus conquered Babylon there were many Jewish captives in the city from previous conquests 605 597 and 587 BCE by Nebuchadnezzar of Juda Cyrus's cylinder states that the Persian king's policy was to return the exiles eir places of origin and settlements and build permanent sanctuaries for the gods of these peoples 3 Cyrus the Great in the Bible Cyrus the Great ruled the Achaemenid Empire from 550 until his death in 530 or 531 BCE It is highly praised in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament He is recognized in the scriptures for his role in the conquest of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and the subsequent liberation of the Jewish people held captive in Babylon According to the biblical text during his first year of reign Cyrus was prompted for God's sake to issue a royal decree ordering repatriation to the land e return of the Jews from exile in Babylon as well as the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem The Persian king not only released the Jews who departed for Judah but also provided them w The sacred vessels taken by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon from Solomon's Temple during the sack of Jerusalem Likewise Ciro took an interest in the project to rebuild the temple contributing generously an important sum of money to the Jews for the purchase of construction materials These efforts led to the reconstruction of the Jewish sanctuary approximately at the 516 BCE marking the beginning of the Second Temple period Since then Cyrus has been revered as the Messiah the only non-Jew recognized by Judaism In the Bible the liberation of the Jews exiled in Babylon is primarily mentioned as the first chapter of the Book of Ezra in chapter 36 of the Second Book of Chronicles and in specific prophecies from the Book of Isaiah The Second Temple period lasted nearly six centuries extending until the year 70 of the Common Era when the Roman army under Titus destroyed the sanctuary The Western Wall also known as the Wailing Wall survived 4 Nineveh was considered legendary Nineveh was ancient city of Upper Mesopotamia located at the site of modern-day Mosul in Iraq Its ruins lie on the eastern bank of the Tigris River and were the largest city and capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire Today half of Mosul bears its name as does one of Iraq's governorates It was possibly the wealthiest city in the ancient world for half a century until the year 612 B C when it was sacked by a coalition of previously subjugated peoples Among these Babylonians Persians and Medes during a period of civil wars in Syria Their ruins lie opposite the historic center of modern-day Mosul and consist of mainly due to two stelae the mounds within the walls the Ekuyunkíjk and El Anabiyun home to a shrine dedicated to the prophet Jonah who preached there In the beginning according to the Hebrew Bible and the Qur'an At the mound of Ekuyunkíjk the British Assyriologist and diplomat Austin Henry Layard In 1849 he rediscovered the long-lost palace of Sennacherib complete with its 71 chambers and colossal reliefs Layard unearthed the palace and the famous library of Ashurbanipal containing 22 000 tablets clay cuneiform tablets The location of the site of Nineveh was already known in the Middle Ages having been visited 1170 by the Jewish traveler Benjamin of Tudela and shortly afterward by the German rabb Bohemian Petaquías from Ratisbon The Hebrew Bible first mentions the city in Genesis 10:11 which states tha Asur left that land and founded Nineveh The founding of Nineveh by the son of Shem and grandson of Noah is also noted by the exts from the Jubilees discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls uncovered in the twentieth century It was said that Ur of the Chaldeans was a legend until the pioneering British official and archaeologist John George Taylor discovered it By the mid-19th century the biblical city of Ur the homeland of Abram was largely little more than a legend Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia located at the site of modern-day Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq It was a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates River in the Persian Gulf but the The shoreline has shifted since then and the site is now inland on the southern bank of the river Your data dates back to around 3800 B C and is recorded in written history as a A city-state since 2600 B C with Mesa-Nepada as its first known king In the 1920s and 1930s British archaeologist Leonard Woodley unearthed some 35 000 artifacts from Ur including the remains of a royal cemetery that contained over 2 000 burials and a vast array of gold crowns helmets and jewelry dating back to around 2600 BCE At that moment the discovery of the royal cemetery rivaled the finding of King Tut's tomb in Egypt The royal tombs of Ur date to the early Dynastic Period IIIa circa the 25th or 24th century BCE and contained numerous luxury items made of metals exquisite gemstones and semi-precious stones imported from distant places such as Iran India and Afghanistan This vast wealth underscores the economic significance of Ur during the early Bronze Age A 1929 excavation uncovered the lyres of Ur 11-stringed instruments with a distinctive shape de toro resembling modern harps 6 It was said that Caiaphas was a literary figure José Ben Caifás was a Jewish high priest of the Sadducean sect who lived betwee The reigns of Roman emperors Augustus and Claudius The Gospels assign him a prominent role in the conspiracy that led to the crucifixion Jesus John 11:50 attributes to him the statement "It is better that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish " According to the Talmud in the year 18 of the Common Era Caiaphas was appointed by Valerius Gratus Roman prefect of Judea as Jewish high priest Caiaphas married the daughter of the former high priest Anas and remained in power A major religious tension among the Jews throughout the entire period of Pontius Pilate 's governance the successor of Gratus and another prominent figure in the New Testament For many years considered a fictional character he was accidentally discovered in 1990 Israel the so-called Tomb of the Family of Caiaphas a lavishly decorated ossuary containing the remains of two infants two adolescents an adult woman and a man who died around the age of 60 The ossuary is identified as belonging to Jose Ben Caiaphas and several scholars mainta It refers to the tomb of Jesus' chief adversary according to the gospels Other scholars have questioned this pointing to the lack of identification of Caiaphas as high priest and inconsistencies in the spelling of his name The limestone ossuary measures approximately 75 centimeters in length and 37 centimeters in width from the high priest and is preserved in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem If the hypothesis that this is Caiaphas's tomb is correct these would be the firs remains of an individual mentioned in the Bible The first-century Jewish historian Flavius Josephus regarded as the primary extrabiblical source More reliable information about Caiaphas established the chronology associated with the high priest 7 Scholars dismissed John 5:2's description of a pool with five porticoes as symbolic fiction One of the most famous miracles recounted in the Gospels is found in John 5 where Jesus healed a paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem Another miracle mentioned by John took place at the pool of Siloam also in Jerusalem where Jesus healed the man born blind The Pool of Siloam was discovered in 2005 and quickly linked to the site mentioned in the gospel In contrast the Bethesda Pool was excavated in the late 19th century but experts It took more than a century to accurately identify and interpret the site The Pool of Siloam has been identified as a Jewish ritual bath and the writer Urban C von Anwalheder has suggested in his book The Bewildering Pool of Bethesda that this one might be too If this theory is correct it would mean that two of the most famous miracles attributed In the New Testament these events took place in Jewish ritual baths John describes the pool of Bethesda as having five porticoes a feature entirely distinctive unusual as it would be a pentagonal pool rather than a rectangular one Most scholars have described this passage from the evangelist as a symbolic fiction However when the pool of Bethesda was excavated it was discovered that in reality It was a pool consisting of two separate sections divided by a wall Was this wall the fifth portal mentioned by John 8 Lucas's use of the Greek term Politarkas in Acts 17:6–8 was criticized as anachronistic or invented A Politarch was a magistrate in Hellenistic and Roman Greece who oversaw civic affairs and held police authority within a city Lucas uses the term Politarkas when describing in the Book of Acts the moment when Jason and other Christians were brought before this official a leader in the city of Thessalonica then in Macedonia for defying Roman laws by proclaiming Jesus as king Lucas's use of the term Politarkas was criticized as invented or anachronistic in the context of the first century CE Critics argued that Lucas's use of the term was not attested classical Greek literature considering this as evidence that the evangelis The author of the book of Acts was not a writer from the first century CE Common or unfamiliar with the terminology used in Macedonian cities such as Thessaloniki However archaeological evidence particularly the Thessalian inscriptions cluding the significant inscription from the Vardar Gate now preserved in the British Museum confirmed that Politarka was indeed an official title for the magistrates of the city of Thessalonica during the Hellenistic and Roman periods This confirmation provides evidence of the historical accuracy of the term used by Luke in the Book of Acts The criticisms of the expression used by the evangelist were particularly intense the 18th and 19th centuries particularly among scholars aligned with the historical-critical method This school of thought frequently questioned the reliability of the Bible and viewed the boo with skepticism toward the Acts assuming it had been written toward the end of the century In the Common Era due to anachronistic or entirely invented terminology Number 9 They questioned whether Gallio was indeed the proconsul of Achaia as recorded in Acts 18:12–17 Acts 18:12-17 states that when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia the Jews rose up together against Paul They jointly accused him of inciting men to worship God contrary to the law and brought him before the tribunal saying This man persuades people to worship God in defiance of the law and as Paul began to speak Gallion said to the Jews "If there were any grievance or a serious crime O Jews according to law I would tolerate it " But if it concerns matters of words names or your law judge it yourselves for I I don't want to judge such matters and he expelled them from the courtroom Then all the Greeks seized Sosthenes the synagogue ruler and beat him publicly In front of the court but Galeón didn't care one bit about it The existence of Galeon as proconsul of the Greek region of Achaia in the Book of The authenticity of Los Hechos was doubted until the early 20th century when the inscription was discovered From Delphi the Galion inscription in the temple of Apollo at Delphi This is a collection of excerpts from a letter written by the Roman Emperor Claudius In the year 52 of the Common Era in a letter the successor of Caligula and predecessor of Nero affirms For a long time not only have I been favorably inclined toward the city of Delphi bu I also pray for your prosperity and I have always safeguarded the worship of Apollo But now as it is said to be devoid of citizens like Galeón my friend and proconsul e recently informed me and being eager for Delphi to retain its former status I command you to also invite people of noble birth from other cities to Delphi as new residents The empress's reference to the proconsul Gallion not only served as confirmatio ot only the historical existence of this character but also provided detailed accounts of the events an important marker for establishing the chronological timeline of the Apostle Paul's life Critics claimed that Pontius Pilate did not exist Like many other figures in the Gospels the historical existence of Pontius Pilate the prefect remains a subject of scholarly debate The Roman governor of Judea responsible for Jesus' execution has been questioned for a long time me despite being known not only for the evangelical source but also by various Jewish and Roman authors of the first century CE such as Philo of Alexandria Josephus and Tacitus Pilato a member of the Roman Equestrian Order was the fifth prefect of the province Roman Judea between the years 26 and 36 Among the Roman governors of Judea Pilate is the best-documented figure although he is They preserve few sources about his rule and practically nothing is known about his life before becoming attorney general nor about the circumstances of his appointment Among the main physical evidence preserved from his existence are The coins he minted and the inscription on the Pilate Stone Ancient sources such as Philo Josephus and the Gospel of Luke recount numerous incidents between Pilate and the Jewish population often citing his insensitivity toward Jewish religious traditions Archaeologists have discovered a single inscription referring to the Roman prefect known as the Pilate Stone This inscription discovered by Italian archaeologists in 1961 at the archaeological site Tiberius Pontius Pilate prefect of Judea from Caesarea Maritima as inscribed fragmentarily According to New Zealand historian Joan E Taylor aside from the name and title from Pilate the inscription is unclear yet the text carved into the limestone stone Confirms the existence and position of Pilate in Judea the region where the Passion took place Number 11 It was said that King David was a myth The Tel Dan Stele is the oldest archaeological evidence of King David's existence a biblical figure considered mythical by many for a long time When discovered in northern Israel in 1993 the Tel Dan Stele became the earliest evidence outside the scriptures concerning the authenticity of David's house The fragmentary slab contains an Aramaic inscription dating to the ninth century B C and was discovered In 1993 at Tel Dan in Israel a site known by various names in Hebrew Bible Contains several lines of ancient Hebrew and the surviving text describes an individual He killed Joram king of Israel son of Ahab and Ahaziah of Judah a ruler from the house of David The inscription corroborates scenes from the Hebrew Bible as the second book of Kings It mentions Joram a son of the Israelite king Ahab and his Phoenician wife Jezebel According to the Hebrew Bible itself it was likely commissioned by Hazael g of Aram Damascus whose language would have been ancient Aramaic Hazael is mentioned in 2 Kings 12 as the conqueror of Israel's Samaria though not of Jerusalem The nearly one-thousand-square-centimeter basalt slab commemorates military victories according to scholars the king Hazael of Aram a region in present-day Syria that includes Damascus One of those victories was over a descendant of King David 12 The biblical Hittites were a group of e personages mentioned in the Hebrew Bible described as living in Canaan or nearby Between the time of Abram and that of Ezra following the return of the Jews from exile in Babylon His patriarch was Heter son of Canaan grandson of Ham and great-grandson of Noah At the end of the nineteenth century this biblical town was identified with a language-based empire a recently discovered Indo-European presence in Anatolia a prominent regional power during the heig part of the second millennium BCE which came to be known as the Hittites However the relationship between the Hittite Empire and the biblical Hittites remains a subject of debate According to Genesis the Hittite Ephron sold to Abram the cave of Machpelah in Hebron for so that he could use it as a family tomb Later Esau son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham married women from the Hittites According to Joshua 1:4 God tells Moses' successor as He describes the promised land From the desert and the region of Ibana to the great river the Euphrates all the land of The Hittites and the great sea at the edge of the sunset shall be your boundary According to Judges 1:26 when the Israelites captured Bethel they let a man go He journeyed to the land of the Hittites where he established the Canaanite settlement of Luz The Hebrew Bible refers to the biblical Hittites during the time of King Solomon as one of the powerful neighbors of the Kingdom of Israel along with the Syrians After the fall of the Hittite Empire around 1178 B C a remnant of that people dispersed establishing several city-states in northern Syria and it is commonly assumed tha These are the biblical Hittites mentioned during the time of Solomon The seals of King Hezekiah According to the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament Hezekiah was the thirteenth king of Judah between the late eighth century and early seventh century BCE According to II Kings 18 he was the son of King Ahaz The Gospel of Matthew presents him as part of Jesus' genealogy which the evangelist traces back to David Israeli archaeologist Eliad Mazar discovered the bulla or seal of Hezekiah a find tha It was publicly announced in 2015 The seal a small clay fragment was discovered in Orfel a section of the site the Old City of Jerusalem within a real dump context from the time of Hezekiah It bears an impression that says Belonging to Hezekiah son of Ahaz king of Judah The bula measuring just over one centimeter in diameter bears a seal impression a two-winged solar disc flanked by symbols of Al-Nanaj key to life The seal was discovered along with 33 other stamped bulls during wet sieving of earth from a landfill located near a real structure from the 10th century BCE This is the first time the impression of a Jewish king's seal has been discovered A controlled archaeological excavation confirming the existence of the biblical king Hezekiah In the ancient Near East stamped bullae were used both to sign and to verify the authenticity of royal documents King Hezekiah was known as an active religious reformer and for his efforts to achieve independence from Assyria The bones of Saint Peter beneath the Vatican According to Christian tradition Emperor Constantine ordered the construction of the first basilica from San Pedro at the site of the apostle's tomb and the first pope The current basilica has a lower level known as the Vatican Grottoes where the remains are located Many popes are buried here and the ground level of this site corresponds roughly to that of the 4th-century Constantinian sanctuary Before his death in 1939 Pope Pius XI expressed his wish to be buried in the Vatican Grottoes Despite the crowded conditions the new Pope Pius XII who wished to fulfill With the intent of his predecessor he ordered the establishment of a space for burying Pius XI During the course of the work an empty space beneath the pavement was uncovered revealing the remains of a burial complex Thus a third level emerged—the vast Roman necropolis Excavations carried out throughout the 1940s and 1950s involving of ancient artifacts biblical scholars and other experts have revealed the existence from a vast and rich necropolis dating to the first two centuries of the Common Era containing of 22 large tombs and of other smaller ones One of the large tombs was discovered directly beneath the current main altar of the Basilica from Saint Peter and likely as tradition holds belonged to the Apostle Peter Pope Pius XII stated that it was Saint Peter 's tomb a claim also affirmed by Paul VI 15 The Tomb of Saint Paul According to the Book of Acts of the Apostles the apostle Paul was arrested in Jerusalem He was imprisoned for about two years having appealed to the Emperor He was taken as a prisoner to Rome where he was tried and executed The tradition of the church fathers holds that Paul died a violent death In Rome under the rule of Nero the emperor who reigned from 54 to 68 Eusebius of Caesarea was the first to assert categorically in the fourth century It is recorded that Paul was beheaded in the same Rome According to the sixth-century apocryphal Passion of Paul the apostle was buried Lucina's estate a Christian woman's property and the site where the Roman Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls was later built In 2006 a Vatican archaeological team conducting excavations at the Basilica At San Pablo Extramuros he discovered beneath the main altar a marble sarcophagus using radiocarbon dating the bone fragments were dated to between the first and second centuries CE In 2009 Pope Benedict XVI expressed his conviction that the remains corresponded to those of the Apostle Paul We hope this video has been helpful to you If you have anything to add please share it with us in the comments section Like this video and send the link to your family and your closest friends so they can also learn more about these 15 myths and supposed lies from the Bible that turned out to be true If you're new to our channel don't forget to subscribe Make sure to follow us on all our social media platforms listed right below the description Remember a people who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it