{"id":678,"date":"2022-05-09T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/?p=678"},"modified":"2025-10-02T21:24:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T21:24:33","slug":"the-el-burnat-a-structures-joshuas-altar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/the-el-burnat-a-structures-joshuas-altar\/","title":{"rendered":"The El-Burnat (A) Structure(s): Joshua\u2019s Altar?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\" id=\"viewer-foo\">The book of Joshua records a ceremony of blessings and curses that the Israelites held on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim shortly after their arrival in the promised land. According to Joshua 8:30, \u201cThen Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"viewer-35btp\"><em>The El-Burnat (A) Structure(s): Joshua\u2019s Altar?<\/em> provides a thorough analysis of Joshua\u2019s altar first by examining Mount Ebal and altars in the Bible and then by analyzing biblical references to Joshua\u2019s Mount Ebal altar to determine the exact biblical specifications for that altar. It then discusses the surveys and archaeological work that have taken place on Mount Ebal and specifically at one site on the mountain, el-Burnat (A). Adam Zertal, who excavated at the site, claimed to have found Joshua\u2019s altar. This review of the corresponding evidence seems to confirm that one of the structures at the site does indeed qualify as Joshua\u2019s altar on Mount Ebal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Abigail Leavitt, <em>Author<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>K. Lynn Lewis, <em>Managing Editor<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B09ZGJPVBF\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paperback<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/El-Burnat-Structure-Joshuas-Altar-ebook\/dp\/B0B11M2KQD\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nehemiahpress.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nehemiahpress.com\/\">Nehemiah Press<\/a>, 2022, 138 pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book of Joshua records a ceremony of blessings and curses that the Israelites held on Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim shortly after their arrival in the promised land. According to Joshua 8:30, \u201cThen Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel.\u201d The El-Burnat (A) Structure(s): Joshua\u2019s Altar? provides&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[45,9,12],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-archaeology-2","tag-bible","tag-christianity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":866,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klynnlewis.com\/maybles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}