Decoding Göbekli Tepe
A View from the Bunker
Derek Gilbert
4.8 • 528 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
GÖBEKLI TEPE has been called the oldest temple in the world. Who—or what—was worshipped there?
Dr. Aaron Judkins and Dr. Judd Burton, authors of the new book Decoding Gobekli Tepe: Biblical Anatolia and the Watchers (https://amzn.to/3WpE3xu), join us to explore the significance of the ancient site. They discuss the archaeological evidence that supports biblical narratives, the spiritual connections to ancient Anatolia (modern Türkiye), and the cultural implications of the site's findings.
We delve into the role of the Watchers, the worship of the moon-god, and the anthropomorphic representations found at Göbekli Tepe, ultimately connecting these themes to the veneration of ancestors and the Rephaim.
Aaron and Judd also discuss cultural engineering by the Watchers and their astonishing discovery of a connection between iconography at Göbekli Tepe and the Luwians, a Bronze Age people who lived in what is now southern Türkiye—thousands of years after Gobekli Tepe was built.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a view from the bunker. |
| 0:03.4 | Now, here's Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:07.5 | In southern Turkey is a site that some archaeologists have called the world's oldest temple. |
| 0:12.9 | Is it really? |
| 0:14.0 | What is the significance of Gobeckley-Tepi? |
| 0:17.4 | Welcome to A View from the Bunker. |
| 0:19.2 | I'm Derek Gilbert. |
| 0:20.3 | Joining me two gentlemen who are authors, |
| 0:22.9 | archaeologists, and explorers who've traveled from Peru to Turkey, involved in some of the |
| 0:28.4 | most exciting excavations in the Holy Land, including scroll caves next to the Dead Sea at |
| 0:33.8 | Coomron and the Gates of Hell at the foot of Mount Hermon. |
| 0:39.1 | They are the co-authors of the new book for which I was honored to write the forward |
| 0:44.5 | and happy to do it. |
| 0:46.2 | The new book, Decoding Gobeckley-Tepe, Biblical Anatolia, and The Watchers. |
| 0:52.0 | And it's an honor to welcome back to the program, Dr. Aaron Judkins and Dr. Judd Burton. |
| 0:57.2 | Fellows, welcome. |
| 0:59.3 | Thanks for having us back. |
| 1:00.0 | Aaron, I'm going to start things. |
| 1:02.1 | Well, I'm going to start off, because we've talked about this program before, and now we've got the book out there for which we've been waiting for quite some time and glad that it's out there. |
| 1:09.9 | I should point out |
| 1:11.0 | number one new release at Amazon in three separate categories as of this recording, including |
| 1:18.4 | controversial ancient knowledge, which is always fun. We can kind of stir the pot in that area. |
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