Child sacrifice in ancient Israel /
Among the many religious acts condemned in the Hebrew Bible, child sacrifice stands out as particularly horrifying. The idea that any group of people would willingly sacrifice their own children to their god(s) is so contrary to modern moral sensibilities that it is difficult to imagine that such a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Winona Lake, Indiana :
Eisenbrauns,
[2017]
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Colección: | Explorations in ancient Near Eastern civilizations
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Children sacrificed as part of a "Molek" rite
- Archaeological, iconographic and epigraphic evidence for child sacrifice in the Levant and Central Mediterranean
- A general sacrifice of firstborn Israelite children?
- Varieties of child sacrifice in Ancient Israel
- Biblical reactions to Israelite child sacrifice. Deuteronomy
- Later legal traditions
- Ezekiel
- Jeremiah
- Summary and conclusions.