Scholar Club Exclusive: Seeing God’s face at the local high place? A linguistic response to Dan McClellan

In this Scholar Club teaching, streamed live during the Shemini Atzeret webinar, Nehemia and Lynell respond to a video by Bible scholar Dan McClellan claiming that the command to appear before Yehovah three times a year is knowingly mistranslated and originally meant to see the face of God. Nehemia examines the Hebrew grammar behind the claim, shows how the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Septuagint and the Talmud all read it as "appear," and takes a fresh look at the shrine at Arad and its standing stone.

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