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God's Wife with Francesca Stavrakopoulou

Data Over Dogma

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The Relationship Between the MLK Practice and the First One Sacrifice

The term molch, so from the roots MLK seems to refer to be a technical term for a particular type of offering perhaps to and quite often these babies in Carthage were being kind of dedicated or offered up in honor of the god Bahamom and his consort Tanit. In 1935 brilliant scholar called Otto Eitzfeld published a thesis in a dissertation in which he argued that this term MLK in the Carthaginian inscriptions meaning a type of sacrifice is cognate with the term MLK that we find in Hebrew Bible texts. It's really nice interesting when you look at the language there, that kind of switch from singular to plural where it's kind of like on the

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