Lectures

Solomon and Sheba

57:17. 20 May 2020. 17K views. YouTube.

The United Monarchy taken out of a small hill-country court and returned to an Egyptian one.

With Solomon, Pharaoh of Egypt

Israelites were Egyptians, part 1

51:36. 11 July 2020. 36K views. YouTube.

Ellis’ case that the biblical Exodus and the Hyksos expulsion are one event, three centuries apart on the usual timeline, and that the Israelites were those pharaohs. He notes that theologians and historians resist the identification.

With Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs

Israelites were Egyptians, part 2

55:36. 23 August 2020. 23K views. YouTube.

The same identification continued: one Exodus, not two, and an Israelite people Ellis places in the Egyptian royal house.

With Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs

Cleopatra to ChristJesus the great-grandson of Cleopatra

51:50. 12 March 2019. 49K views. YouTube.

The bloodline argument in full: from Cleopatra VII to a first-century Judaean king, and why the Magi were there.

With Cleopatra to Christ

Jewish zodiacsin first-century synagogues

38:41. 23 March 2019. 20K views. YouTube.

Helios, the zodiac wheel, and what synagogue mosaics still admit about Judaean religion in the century of the gospels.

With Cleopatra to Christ

Christianity is the Church of Saul,not Jesus

1:02:05. 6 April 2019. 25K views. YouTube.

The religion that survived is Paul’s. Ellis reads that as a political substitution, not a misunderstanding.

With King Jesus

The Jewish Revolt

1:01:35. 18 May 2019. 20K views. YouTube.

The war of the 60s as the real setting of the gospel drama — chronology shifted backward to the 30s, and a king hidden inside a carpenter.

With King Jesus

Who led the Jewish Revolt?

52:18. 2 July 2019. 24K views. YouTube.

Command, treasury, and the named leaders of the Revolt — and which of them Ellis identifies with the gospel king.

With King Jesus

Josephus,the ambassador of Edessa

30:23. 8 July 2019. 14K views. YouTube.

Josephus not merely as a historian of the war, but as a court figure whom the books also name Saul.

With King Jesus

Jesus the King of Edessa

51:10. 21 July 2019. 63K views. YouTube.

The most-watched lecture: a king of northern Syria, a coin, a statue, and a name that was never only ‘Jesus of Nazareth’.

With Jesus, King of Edessa

The Huqoq Alexander mosaic

30:56. 11 March 2019. 8.2K views. YouTube.

A Galilean synagogue floor and what its Alexander cycle is doing in a Judaean prayer house.

With Jesus, King of Edessa

Water to wine

33:37. 17 June 2019. 4.7K views. YouTube.

The gospel account of water turned into wine. Ellis identifies it with a first-century device of Heron of Alexandria. Taken from the King Jesus Trilogy.

With King Jesus

Sex in the scriptures

33:01. 18 June 2020. 5.8K views. YouTube.

Rachel and the mandrakes. In the King Jesus Trilogy the Hebrew is read as a mistranslation, and the passage is about sex.

With King Jesus

Essene and Templar communists

43:05. 30 January 2019. 26K views. YouTube.

Shared property, a warrior priesthood, and a through-line Ellis draws from Qumran to the Temple in Jerusalem to the Temple in the West.

With The Grail Cypher

Queen Mary Magdalene

1:09:33. 17 June 2019. 26K views. YouTube.

Mary as queen of a city-state, not a follower from Magdala with a jar of ointment.

With Mary Magdalene, Princess of Orange

Jesus in England

33:58. 24 September 2019. 41K views. YouTube.

Exile after the Revolt: a Roman prison in Britain, and the seed of the Arthur cycle.

With King Jesus

King Arthura Knights Templar story

1:12:22. 12 April 2020. 26K views. YouTube.

The round table as the last supper table; Arthur as the British name of an exiled Judaean king, kept by a later military order.

With The Grail Cypher

Fairytales and secret symbolism

20:21. 15 March 2019. 7.2K views. YouTube.

Nursery narrative as a surviving cipher — the same method Ellis applies to scripture and romance.

With The Grail Cypher

Welcome

1:50. 21 December 2018. 7.9K views. YouTube.

An introduction to the talks and lectures. Ralph points to this channel, the King Jesus Trilogy, and the full-length films on Patreon.

Megaliths of the Near East

50:51. 26 February 2020. 9.4K views. YouTube.

Standing stones and temples east of the Mediterranean, read as the same design tradition as Giza and the Atlantic façade.

With Thoth, Architect of the Universe

Ice age cycles explained, part 1

32:49. 1 June 2019. 5.8K views. YouTube.

Ellis’ account of the ice-age cycle. He argues that interglacial warming follows low carbon dioxide, and that the usual account of the feedback has the mechanism backwards.

With Shards of Illumination II

Ice age cycles explained, part 2

26:13. 1 June 2019. 1.9K views. YouTube.

The second part of that account, and the same claim that the cycle is not the one taught as settled science.

With Shards of Illumination II

Dating the pyramids

25:15. 29 July 2020. 6.4K views. YouTube.

When the pyramids were built, judged here from erosion and later repairs rather than from the date repeated in the textbooks.

With Thoth, Architect of the Universe

Ice age modulation, part 1

32:49. 20 May 2022. 2.3K views. YouTube.

How an ice age is modulated. In the 2016 paper with Michael Palmer, the main feedback proposed is the brightness of the ice sheet, not carbon dioxide.

With Shards of Illumination II

Ice age modulation, part 2

26:13. 20 May 2022. 1.6K views. YouTube.

The second part: dust and the ice sheet as the control, again from the 2016 paper.

With Shards of Illumination II

Star shafts at Giza

25:02. 20 May 2022. 3.3K views. YouTube.

The internal shafts of the Great Pyramid as sight-lines, not ventilation.

With Thoth, Architect of the Universe

Megaliths 66,000 years old?

1:16:43. 26 May 2022. 6.4K views. YouTube.

A dating challenge to the orthodox timeline of stone architecture in the Near East.

With Thoth, Architect of the Universe