![]() If you’ve ever read (or heard of) any of the Greek classics by Homer, such as The Iliad, or The Odyssey, or maybe the more ancient Mesopotamians works like the Epic of Gilgamesh, you’ll recognize this storyline. ![]() Maybe they won’t kill me or send a plague on my family. But maybe if I kill this animal and make sure the gods get their pound of flesh, they’ll be appeased and happy. The gods are angry with me and are going to kill me. Many of us have inherited a story about animal sacrifice, and it goes something like this: These range from pagan practices in the temples of ancient Greece all the way to modern day examples, such as the recently suspended Gadhimai festival in southern Nepal. Our modern ideas about animal sacrifice come from all sorts of places, most of which are not biblical at all. ![]() Can’t we just skip this part? Animal sacrifice is a foreign practice to many modern Bible readers-most of us simply don’t have categories for what is happening in these sections of Scripture. For many of us, Leviticus can be a challenging book to read, especially when we get to the chapters outlining animal sacrifice.
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