Thanks for joining our Bible study about burnt offerings. This study was sparked after I met a woman who had recently returned from an archaeological dig in Shiloh, Israel.

God Squad: The altar of burnt offerings — Part I. Marc Gellman. Every year on the Jewish High Holidays I send you an edited version of my High Holiday sermon.

Abraham answered, “God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” (Genesis 22: 7-8). Then Abraham builds the altar where he is prepared to sacrifice his son.

The Book of Joshua, found in the Bible, tells of how one of Moses’ assistants who built an altar of stones where the Israelites made peace offerings.Much later in the book, when Joshua was old ...

Every year on the Jewish High Holidays I send you an edited version of my High Holiday sermon. The differences between this one and the one I preached is that ...