In this multipart series I explore the phenomenon of interpreting "Bible Prophecy" and why it has utterly disappointed its devotees and adherents through the ages--with a 100% rate of failure! We look at both the texts of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, but also the long history of interpretation and predictions of the end of the age, beginning with the Dead Sea Scroll group around 100 BCE, all the way down to our own time--which has proven to be a heyday of Prophetic Schemes and Predictions.
Curated by: James Tabor (36 videos)
This latest episode of my series on "Interpretations of Bible Prophecies Through the Ages," is a cautionary flashing light on methods of reading ancient texts in our modern times. I begin to survey some of the highly influential "floating prophecies" of the Hebrew Prophecy that are not anchored in specific historical events of the past, or reach ahead from such dated events (e.g. 8th century BCE Assyrian invasion; 6th century Babylonian invasion; Alexander and his successors, the Roman occupation, et al.) from the past that seem to stretch their visions to the "end of the age."