Sin & Sacrifice in Ancient Israel Ryan White Part 5

Ryan White

Sin & Sacrifice in
Ancient Israel
Part 5

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• Jacob Milgrom
• Mary Douglas
• Gary A. Anderson Sin: A Histor
• Henry P. Smith The Hebrew Vie
• Baruch Schwartz The Bearing o
• Jeremiah Unterman For the Im

Israel
• Margaret Barker Atonement: T
• Jonathan Klawans Purity, Sacri

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ew of Sin
of Sin in Priestly Literature
mage of God as Redeemer of

The Rite of Healing
ifice, and the Temple

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• Marcel Mauss The Gift
• Henri Hubert and Marcel Mau
• Gordon Wenham The Book of
• Yitzhaq Feder Blood Expiation
• Allen Ross Holiness to the LORD
• Dennis Pardee Divinatory and
• William Gilders Sacrifice in Anc

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uss Sacrifice
Leviticus
in Hittite and Biblical Ritual
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Sacrificial Rites
cient Israel

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• Magic to counteract • Remove the
demons • Weaning of
• Control of
• Violence-driven

• Food for the gods

Israel Judaism/
Christianity
Magic
ff sacrifice • Theologically Evolved
f laity • Attained the goal
• Understands the

spiritual

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cated at the center of land mass on earth.
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rvature matches that of the earth exactly.
ilt facing true north and located on an
derground stone mountain (support)
rnerstones used ball & sockets to last
ough earthquakes, heat, cold, just like
odern bridge design.
mbers designed into it – 3.14159, 365.24,
49 (Isaiah 19:19-20)

Ancient man’s

≥cognitive ability

≥ Modern man’s
cognitive ability

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Ancient Israel • Un
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• Remove the Magic

Pre-Israel • Weaning off sacrifice

• Magic to counteract • Control of laity
demons
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• Violence-driven
• Food for the gods

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Judaism/
Christianity

heologically Evolved
ttained the goal
nderstands the
piritual

zekiel 38-48
Restoration

Not Evolution

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ejected system
OR

cted Priesthood?

Paul himself offered sacrifices
• Acts 18:18, Acts 21:23-26

Yeshua taught to sacrifice after re
brother

• Matthew 5:23-24

The prophets opposed improper
• Malachi 1
• 2 Samuel 24:24
• Isaiah 61:8

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sacrifices

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Purpose of the

e Sacrificial System

• Attract God’s presence to the
earth
• Audience with the King

• Maintain God’s presence in the
midst of the camp
• Act of restitution for crimes
• Reconfirming of the covenant
bond

Attract

The eleventh tablet of the standard B
the Epic of Gilgamesh:

(155) I let out to the four winds a
made an offering at the mountai
vessels by sevens. (158) Under
myrtle. (159) The gods smelled (
gods, like flies, around the offer

ting the Deity

Babylonian (Ninevite) version of

and I offered a sacrifice. (156) I
in top. (157) I set up cult
them I poured reed, cedar and
(its) sweet savor. (161) The
rer gathered.

Basic Sacrific

1. Select an animal
2. Ensure your ritual cleanliness
3. Bring your animal to the tabern
4. Lay your hand on the animal’s h
5. Kill your animal
6. Priest manipulates the blood
7. Part of the animal or all of the a
8. Covenant meal of the sacrifice (
9. Thus atonement is made on beh

rendered (if applicable)

ce Procedure

nacle, to the priest
head

animal is placed on the altar
(as applicable)
half of him and forgiveness is

#1 Animal

Selection

#1 Animal

Blemish in Justice
(Leviticus 19:35)

Selection

Consequences
(Malachi 1:13-14)

#1 Animal

Matthew 25:31-33

Selection

#1 Animal Select

• Source of • Milk •
manure • Cheese •
• Lawnmower
• Offspring • Offspring

tion – Income Source

Wool • Milk
Offspring • Plowing fields
• Grinding grain
• Transport
• Offspring



Animal kingdom as a
microcosm of the world

Unclean animals = Gentiles

• Allowed for usage while alive, but
prohibition against corpses prevented
Israel from profiting from their death
(skins, meat, etc) (cf. Lev 19:16)

Kosher animals = Israelite laity

• This explains why Lev 17 equates
unsanctioned slaughter to murder

Only 3 ruminants & 1 type of fowl
are permissible on the altar

• Like the kohenim, they had had to be
without blemish

Basic Sacrific

1. Select an animal
2. Ensure your ritual cleanliness
3. Bring your animal to the tabern
4. Lay your hand on the animal’s h
5. Kill your animal
6. Priest manipulates the blood
7. Part of the animal or all of the a
8. Covenant meal of the sacrifice (
9. Thus atonement is made on beh

rendered (if applicable)

ce Procedure

nacle, to the priest
head

animal is placed on the altar
(as applicable)
half of him and forgiveness is