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God's Wife with Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Data Over Dogma
The Argument for Moloch in the Hebrew Bible
Whether or not child sacrifice happened is really difficult to assess. We have no evidence for the sorts of ritualized burning of very young babies, children and young animals that we have from comparative sites across the Phoenician and Punic worlds. But these inscriptions occasionally refer to seem to suggest that this particular practice is a type of offering. And I think incorrectly that this god moloch could be found in some of these texts from this place I mentioned before from Ugarit.
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