10. The Hittites and the Era of the Israelite Judges 

I am an atheist who has read the bible and studied other religions to a lesser degree in my attempt to better understand the beliefs of their adherents. Yours is a great lecture series and it is interesting to learn more about competing nations and empires and their relationship to a biblical timeline. Although skeptical, I find the history and stories of the bible compelling and they often shed light an who we are and how we got here. My sincere thanks to you.

Awesome material, and great spiritual lesson

Really happy to find this. My 9 year old picked TURKEY for his indepth country study on Asia. This is perfect!

This is great! Thank You for posting this.

Whoa whoa , where have I’ve been. This was so good. Thank you soo much God is Good.

Excellent Presentation. Thank you for making this available.

I remember when I was a kid, I would get on Sunday school bus and go to this church. My parents did not choose the church. The availability of a bus that passed through my neighborhood chose it. I was only like 8, but the Pastor would tell these gripping tales about Abraham, Isaac, Moses and so on. I could almost picture the world they lived in. It gave me my love for History. Since then I've grown up. I outgrew some of the more religious parts... but my love for history remained. And I remember all those old stories. It's great to see how they fit into the rest of the world around them. For some reason I had assumed that the exodus was related to the late bronze age collapse, but I guess it does make more sense that it was right before we start hearing about the Philistines who were likely part of the sea peoples.

Incredable series. Thank you

Love to listen to Mr Bruce 💙❤️.

I'm happy that i found this channel. Historie is so interesting, and to see it together with the bible is very very great. In school we should learn this and for so many ppl in could be a eye opener. Unfortunately in school you learn nothing in historie lessons

So good to see you again teaching here Bruce. Always the best sir.

This is exactly what I've been looking for. God bless.

Monsieur Gore, votre cours qui se termine en homélie est excellente. Soyez assuré de mon admiration et désormais je vais regarder toutes vos interventions.

Excellent ! maps and all. thanks !

Fantastic educator.

Very very great message to the end of this presentation. I listen to many many messages, most of them way more then an hpuer...But seldom see the strength of an inner man for the passion that he serve everyone with.. And so very objectively...

What a fantastic teacher of God’s Redemptive Testimony called His “Word”. Sure wish I knew where your church is located because I’m moving there. Thank you so much! My eyes were glued to the screen and I can’t wait to see the next one. God bless you

god bless you thanx for the vdo

I subbed right away, teacher!

May Father YAHweh bless your understanding.

Just found this. Thanks so much for posting it.

I continue to enjoy Professor Gore's lectures on the Bible and ancient near east. I've studied about those Europeans the Hittites for some time. One of the greatest mysteries of the Bible remains the Old Hittite Nation.

I am really enjoying these lectures!! So refreshing and insightful!

Thank you !

Good teaching sir!

Always admire those who study Biblical history. Some of the timelines presented here are questionable. We should always be learning more. Good stuff.

Saved by grace thru faith.

Please continue to to videos like this.

Well done & thanks for posting. I'm having a hard time finding a parish that will discuss the Old Testament, much less study it. I'm surrounded by people preaching tolerance & forgiveness at the cost of their thoughts, dreams, & self esteem. It seems like they gloss over the old testament & even portions of the gospel to push their social agenda. I wish I could do more than give a thumbs up & comment

Hi Bruce, I'm completely enjoying your historical series, so mmmuch so that I'm looking to study Ancient History at University. I'm 71 and have always been a Christian. I was brought up in the Presbyterian church. As I commented last time ,I truly believe God gas blessed you as a teacher of his Bible record . I only wish my invitations to other people are taken up so that they can learn about God's plan through your teaching. Forever grateful..an Aussie Grandma.😊

I appreciate you Bruce thank you for letting me spend time with you with these RU-vid videos I've learned so much from you the Lord has given me a small group of people that have never read the Old Testament for my Thursday night bible study group we just finished Joshua and are entering into the Book of Judges I love history and have been trying to find a way to incorporate historical events with teaching the Old Testament although my class is all grown adults husband and wives mothers and fathers their grasp on the Old Testament and in our history is minimum I pray to the Lord if there was any way that I didn't have to do this let me know if it was okay for me to pass this over but it's obvious to me that the Lord chose me to do this and I don't want to fail in this task anyway there are Hittites here for me and your teachings in your videos incorporating history with Biblical events that's been a great source of help and peace for me I find that you have done exceptional work may I even say nearly exhaustive and I commend you sir God has gifted you with great ability although I'll probably never meet you in this life I would love to talk to you sometime maybe if we meet in heaven we could spend some time in a conversation God bless you Bruce thanks again

A masterful presentation, rather quite rare.

I can't tell you how much Power that this Lesson has brought to me, yes i am real close to be 53 years of steadfast belief in God and the Spirit of Jesus who dwells in me, with me and through me, i do admit the struggle of understanding the Trinity, it wasn't until i came up against the most Powerful Hittite at the age of 47 years old, this is when i experienced the Holy Spirit, and this was when it all came together and i escaped death looking me in the face, i have never ever doubted God and his Son Jesus the Christ, though i like Jacob, have questioned and screamed out for an answer during these Hittites i had experienced in my life, looking back at a time when all my friends would laugh and say that the Bible is nothing but a story Book made to believe so that we can be controlled by some secret Society, i refused and believed, now since those way smarter than i, like you have brought truth to the Bible. I can't be more Grateful today! Thank you and may our Lord God bless you in Jesus Name.

Great history followed by an inspirational message! Excellent and well worth a watch. 😊

Happy New Year 😇 God bless your work 😇

Don't rely on any one source for history (his-story). Dig deeper and fasten your seat belt because it's nothing like we've been taught.

"the possessions that had been promised to Abraham": A nice expression for land taken by force-.

Those darn seapeople

You u tubers out there should check out what a great historian this guy is. Hes got a load of stuff ,stretching out for decades.

In serious prayer, I asked to understand the order of biblical history from the disorder of the old testament. I realize the books were designed to be read in comparison with one another for new meanings to become visible as we grow spiritually but geez I was making a misery out of my effort. It was my symbolic Hittite, but I kept searching, knowing my prayer would be answered. Now here I am typing a thank you to you. The funny thing was, I took a break last night and watched a documentary on the Hittites.

The Semites were new comers to the area in relation to the Hittites..

Very good series, I'm an atheist and find you pretty balanced and thorough.

Amen 🙏

... KEEP THE SABBATH ! be courageous ! Don't talk me to death, quit talking about "Sunday school" ! "- do all that Moses commanded, turning neither to the right hand, or the left hand -" - your words ! Exodus 20 : 8 - 11

In this series connecting different regieme is mervellous from jewish perspective.

The RU-vidr History with Cy gives a more detailed history of the Hittite’s.

I'm studying the Bible with the jehovah's witnesses and what you're saying makes so much sense. I even think that the collapse of the bronze age coincides with the time of the deluge. The first known civilisation were the sumerians, interestingly Sumer was right in the the region where according to the Bible, the ark came to rest, and the place where God confused the languages is in that same region too. Everything you're saying fits very well in the Bible's narrative. Thank you so much for this lecture, it makes the Bible even more revealing and trusting

The Apostle Paul says it was about 450 years for the time of Judges until Samuel ! This period ended when Samuel anointed Saul to be King .

Such a brilliant presentation and fluid in content and descriptions (and opinions). So happy to come across this........Prey tell, who are the Hittites?

To the East of the Hittites there was Urartu and Nairi, both precursors of Armenia, and the Armenian People. That area which stretches from the area West of Lake Van, Eastward to Mount Ararat, and North to Lake Sevan, would become the heartland of Armenia, and the Armenian Highlands.

Is this of Göbökli(or so) Tepe?

The Assyrians are also around. I hear that they are a fine Christian People.

The knife got stuck in rolls of fat of Eglon. My buddy was an EMT in KY. They got a call to get a fat lady out of the bathtub that was stuck. When they rolled her onto the table in the hospital a cockroach came out from under a roll.

At about 7:30 what you said about Japheth the migration of his descendants used to not be controversial at all rather a general consensus among Bible believing Christians.....I'm going to look into the links between the Hittite language and English because I did not know the link until hearing this lecture. So thank you!!!

Rullers of Mittani are even more mysterious. IE speakers and even Vedic gods worshipers.

History existed before ancient Israel and for long after.

Who is the sanctified judge of the church in this dimension or period we are in.

Got the book but loving these videos; many thanks Bruce Gore

Thankyou for your skills sir

Omg. Why is on all of these maps the way of Alexander’s conquest which happened 900 Years later depicted? Is it so hard to get a blank map from that area?

If anyone is really interested in the Bible and when the books were written and who influenced them then check out, Dr Tabor and History Valley. You’ll be glad you did.

At about 16:00 the "Hebrews" were not Jews, they were all 12 tribrea.

19:45 Troy is very Hittite looking in construction. It had the same narrow walkways as the Hittite capital city of Hattusa. Cultures tend to have certain hallmarks of their construction styles and I’m nearly positive Troy is Hittite or CLOSELY related and allied.

Samson is a very powerful men with little brain. Asked several times by Dalila: Where is located your power, he gave foul answers. In a minute, after the answer, the adversaries entered the room and aim at the precise location of his power. Obvious, his power was elsewhere, so he could easily defeat the enemies. 3 times in a row the same event took place and he did not understood what was happening. The fourth time he told the truth and he was imprisoned and blinded by enemies. What we can learn from this character. Probably it is better not to be so powerful but to have some brain and to learn from experience.

The missing components from the narrative are the giants. When thinking about the hittite and Egyptian border, you have to think about the giant civilization that may have existed in Israel as a buffer state and / or whom the giants were fighting for. We have their weapons and skeletons, the tombs of anak, etc.

The pharaoh Ay is hardly an insignificant leader. He was advisor for 3 pharoah's wasnt he?

There is an advert on the video

i wish u could come to Jamaica. to teach my people the truth with the facts

Funny how people invent history just to suit this IMAGENARY religouse texts 😂😂😂😂😂😂

The father founder of the Hittites was Heth,son of Canaan,son of Ham, son of Noah. Read Gen.ch.10

O? I thought the etruscan is not indoeuropean and was one of two remained protoindoeuropean languages together with the bask language, before the etruscan disappeared. Maybe a language family that goes back to the anatolian farmers that moved into europe from 7000years ago. Maybe a later connection to the proto greek language on Lemnos - there is some findings there. Also the indoeuropean is most probably not from east anatolia but from a north kaukasian area that tamed horses, invented carts and formed then the yamnaya culture in the steppes north of the black and kaspian sea. Later moved from there to anatolia as well as to europe and both sides around the kaspian sea. Later proceeded to India as well.

Probably, courage is given by God, but in a way that I can not define, like a talent. But there is an other layer of courage that comes from the fear we betray the trust of the righteous and this type of courage has something warm in it. I am thinking of the prisoner for which life some human beings fight to liberate. God gave him the courage to survive but not the tenderness of human solidarity. I am really moved by these lectures.

Bruce Gore Please could you comment on the time of the exodus and the Bronze Age collapse?? Very interested in the collapse of the Babylonian Hittites and Samarian cultures and Samarian cultures and to what extent of ancient eejit survived as the only principle culture to get through this Bronze Age collapse time... Could it be argued that Israel came into existence as a result of the chaos left by the Bronze Age collapse ??

I wouldn’t describe Etruscan as being known to be Indo-European.

Mr. Gore - why was battle of Kadesh not mentioned in the Bible? Because it didn't involve Israel?

"In primitive society punishment is synonymous with revenge, & is impossible to distinguish 'civil' from 'criminal' offenses. The injured party will avenge himself as best he can upon the wrongdoer, or if he is dead, vengeance becomes the duty of his relatives, & there then arises a blood-feud. The matter may, however, be settled by payment of money if the parties can agree to this; such a payment is known as 'COMPOSITION'.... The blood-feud still survived in the Hittite Old Kingdom is clear from the following passage in the Edict of Telipinus: The rule of blood is a follows. Whoever commits a deed of blood, whatever the 'lord of blood (i.e., the Hebrew go'el) says-if he says 'Let him die', he shall die; but if he says 'Let him make restitution', he shall make restitution: the king shall have no say in it. The practice of giving 'persons' as part of the COMPOSITION for manslaughter is remarkable. The expression is that generally used for slaves. Perhaps such slaves were slain at the tomb of the deceased, as in some other ancient societies." [The Hittites, O.R. Gurney, 1966, Ch. Laws & Institutions, §. 3: Retribution & Restitution, p. 94-98] "In this respect Hittite law is comparatively advanced. retribution plays an inconspicuous part in comparison with the principle of restitution. The only capital offenses are rape, sexual intercourse with animals, and defiance of the authority of the state; also, if the offender is a slave, disobedience to his master and sorcery." [The Hittites, O.R. Gurney, 1966] "Question: Is it true that the Torah requires rape victims to marry their rapists, and the only punishment to the rapist is a fifty-shekel fine paid to the victim’s father? Response: Actually the reverse is true: The victim is not required to marry the rapist; the rapist is required to marry his victim (if she consents), after paying her a very heavy fine." www.chabad.org/parshah/article_cdo/aid/1940448/jewish/Does-the-Torah-Punish-a-Rape-Victim.htm "Both version make a careful distinction between killing in anger and killing accidentally; but it is curious that the only case which we should describe as willful murder is mentioned in connexion with a merchant, who seems to be treated rather in a class by himself, and is associated with the motive of robbery. The absence of a specific clause dealing with murder has been noticed also in both the code of Hammurabi and in the Assyrian laws. The crime is treated at length in the Israelite code, but we see from such passages as Deuteronomy xix. 12 that the Hebrew judicial authority ties had nothing to do with the murderer except to hand him over to the vengeance of the go-el, the 'redeemer', i.e. the next of kin." [The Hittites, O.R. Gurney, 1966]

What's going on here? He is showing two different movies on the same screen. Rameses II is not fighting a war with Hatti to let the Judges run Canaan. Amenhotep III was king of Canaan of Egypt during the Judges as well. Othneil never wrote one Amarna letter stating how 7 times 7 he bowed down to him.

You'd be the perfect person to read Velikovsky's Ages of Chaos, Volume 1. Astonishing thesis there re the chronology of the bible, including this period, the judges.

This is sad on so many levels...........

Joshua is 'Jesus Of Naum' in the Greek Edition of the Bible., successor of Moses.

WOW very impressive . Who are the Christian sect he belongs to ?

Have you met any Hittites lately? The natives will agree they were the pilgrims.

Do you know who the historical Uriah the Hittite is?

If you read hebrew you can see the bible code where it talks about Israelites who betray G-d worshipping the religion of the wood and the religion of the stone. And on the same paragraph in equal minimal skips are "yeshu" and "mecca."

Pharao Akanaton I think was married to a Hittite woman( King Tutankamon was born from this marriage🤔)

The Hittites are the proto IndoEuropean children of King Nimrod, great grandson of Ham and Queen Semiramis. His contemporary is Abraham, who with his nephew Lot from are from the line of Shem are the progenitors of the Semites like Jews and Arabs.

We may have "Hittites" in our lives, but then again, we also are "Hittites". We are not innocent.

Then the sword is never to depart from David’s house because he had Uriah the Hittite killed and took Bathsheba for his wife. And Solomon had so many wives he built way to many temples to their gods.

So which one of Noah's sons did the hittites derive from?

I believe the Chatti tribe were Hittites.

Hope yoe know that Hitites , Hajasa and Mittani (mi tun) (means one household) are ancient armenian countrirs.

Etruscan is a Tyrsenian, i.e. Paleo-European, not an IE language

A correction, Etruscan is not an Indo-European language, it is likely a member of the Tyrsenian languages which included Rhaetic and Lemnian. Also Kassite is not an Indo-European language it is rather a language isolate.

With all due respect, I believe the professor may have misspoken when he said etruscan is an indo-european language .

I've been thinking that the nephylum and hittites were working together to invade. Subvert and fall human civilizations. The "cone heads" like nephertiti and aknatun could be the 200 iggiggi who came down fromzrs and took human females account in lost book of enki is same account as the fallen angels.

I always thought that the Hittites that the Israelites were dealing with were of Hametic origin from the lineage of Canaan and his alleged son Heth. The Hittites of Anitolia were actually a conglomeration of Japhethetic stock. Mostly out of the lineage of Kitt(I'm). The bible says that Abraham bought land from the sons of Heth to bury his wife way back before the Hyksos period. I think it is a mistake to refer to the Anatolian group as Hittites. They were (K)hattains. The Hattians formed most likely from bands of Ashkenaz, Gomer, Kitt, and other groups of Japhethetic or Indo-European stock that unified into one country around 1800. That may be why they had so many gods.

Here's the section (below) from Joshua that Gore quotes for his bible study. It is not a coincidence that in the 'legal' world, repeating something three times carries weight, for instance: "you're trespassing, get off my property", or to a police constable "show me your warrant card" otherwise they're just 'impersonating an officer'. Most telling though is the need to Follow all of the Laws in v7 (the moral laws that is - the 10 Commandments, not the ceremonial laws that foreshadowed and were replaced by Jesus's covenant). And what is the 2nd...? Idolatry, which the Vatican Antichrist contravenes every single day (and think about what the crucifix actually is - since Jesus is alive not dead), and the 4th Commandment, which the Vatican Antichrist moved in Constantine's time over from His Chosen People's Sabbath, to the 'Day of Ra' - the Sun God (Satan)' day - Sunday... Worth pondering, as ALL CHRISTIANS follow Sunday Worship, except one small (but worldwide) group of Apostolic Christians that adhere strictly to His Word: "...Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success. Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest..." Joshua 1:6‭-‬9 KJV bible.com/bible/1/jos.1.6-9.KJV I speak as an ex RC incidentally... who saw the light... Jesus is quite clear on the subject of changing His Law... "...Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.." Matthew 5:17‭-‬20 KJV bible.com/bible/1/mat.5.17-20.KJV

The meaning of this is that the Hatti empire continued on as a HATTI empire but modern scholars changed the name HATTI to HITTITE and labelled the whole thing as an “Indo-European Empire” to suit their purposes (i.e., painting the ancient Turanian world as an Aryan and Jewish world). Such modern labelling, some 4000 years after the event, changes the history of ancient Anatolia artificially into an “Aryan” or “Indo-European” dominated land rather than a land that was populated by the native Turanian Tur/Turk/Oguz peoples. Since what they did has not been questioned all this time, what they throw in - stayed in - thus giving the impression that what they say was true some 4000 years ago. Continuous propaganda of their concocted falsehood - conditions the unquestioning public into concluding that there was an “Indo-European” Empire in the heart of Turanian Anatolia. The truth is that there was no “Indo-European” languages until the wanderer Aryan priests artificially fabricated them from the much older Turkish language. One example of this is the wanderer Semite priests fabricating “Accadian and Assyrian” languages from the much older Turko-Sumerian language. Recently we have another example of such falsehood stating that “All Indo-European languages originated from Anatolia”. The intensive media propaganda presentation of this so-called “linguistic research of the Indo-European languages” by means of some computer manipulations is well implanted in the minds of the public - as if what was said was the truth. Actually, they would have been speaking the truth if they had labelled their paper as “All Indo-European languages originated from the ancient Turanian language of Turkish”. Finally, I point the reader to Isaiah 65:17 where the sovereign lord Jehova (YHWA) has said: ‘FOR HERE I AM CREATING NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH; AND THE FORMER THINGS WILL NOT BE CALLED TO MIND, NEITHER WILL THEY COME UP INTO THE HEART.’ Translated into simple terms, this means “I AM ERASING FROM HISTORY THE ANCIENT TURANIAN WORLD AND INSTALLING IN ITS PLACE A SEMITIC WORLD”. But the later Aryans also took the same concept and ran with it - with the so-called Christianity! Polat Kaya 2013-07-05 Many westerns are liars, good fairytale creators. Many primitif Europeans, who came to the civilization of the Turks. Betraded and robbed and learned. - David Erwin Jr - Tartaria - History is a lie - Gene D. Matlock - What Strange Mystery Unites the Turkish Nations, India, Catholicism, and Mexico? - Prof. Dr. Cengiz Karaşarlı - The Lost Turkic Civilization in the Mediteranean Sea. - Atatürk - The Sun Language - Jack Churchward - The Stone Amulets of Mu - Jack Churchward - The Children of Mu - George Tomkins - The Times of Abraham - Ahmet Reyiz Yılmaz - Bir Ibrahim Kavgası (An Abraham Fight) - between Turks and Jews. Dna and language translations of tablets of the last centuries proved that Turks are right. - Özgür Barış Etli - Sahte Sarışın (Fake blond) - Hüseyin Hakkı Kahveci - Atatürkün Yasaklanan Kitabı (Atatürks Forbidden Book)

I thought the Hittites were Canaanite descendants

Good stuff...I would not have used a map showing Alexander's conquest of the Persian Empire which occurs a thousand - 750 years later but I guess you're okay. Good info here.