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#61 Understanding the Bible's Obsession with Blood + Dr. Robert Holmstedt

#61 Understanding the Bible's Obsession with Blood + Dr. Robert Holmstedt

Update: 2025-06-17
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Is there any significance to God being the first to shed blood (i.e., garments of skin)?


Was sacrifice only about sin—or was it also about cleansing, community, or worship?



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Dr. Robert Holmstedt—professor of Hebrew Bible and Semitic

Languages at the University of Toronto. He holds a PhD in Hebrew and Semitic Studies

from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in generative linguistics. Before

that, he earned his BA in biblical studies from Wheaton College.”


“He’s taught everything from ancient Hebrew to general linguistics, and his passion is

bringing theoretical and linguistic clarity to how we read the Hebrew Bible—especially

texts we tend to overlook or misunderstand.”


“And when he’s not decoding ancient Hebrew texts, he’s a father of nine and likes to

build things in his shop.


Email Dr. Holmstedt for resource suggestions -

robert.holmstedt@utoronto.ca


Here are the book recommendations from Dr. Robert Holmstedt:


Commentaries on Esther, Ruth, and Ecclesiastes (Hebrew grammatical focus)-


https://libguides.thedtl.org/c.php?g=746070&p=5350732


Work by Dr. John Walton — especially on Leviticus and priesthood -


5https://www.galaxie.com/article/bbr11-2-08?highlight=Papua%20New%20Guinea



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#61 Understanding the Bible's Obsession with Blood + Dr. Robert Holmstedt

#61 Understanding the Bible's Obsession with Blood + Dr. Robert Holmstedt

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