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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781646022014
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDewrell, Heath D.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aChild Sacrifice in Ancient Israel /
_cHeath D. Dewrell.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2022]
264 4 _c©2017
300 _a1 online resource (236 p.)
336 _atext
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490 0 _aExplorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations ;
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAbbreviations --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Children Sacrificed as Part of a “Molek” Rite --
_tChapter 2. Archaeological, Iconographic, and Epigraphic Evidence for Child Sacrifice in the Levant and Central Mediterranean --
_tChapter 3. A General Sacrifice of Firstborn Israelite Children? --
_tChapter 4. Varieties of Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel --
_tChapter 5. Biblical Reactions to Israelite Child Sacrifice --
_tSummary and Conclusions --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex of Authors --
_tIndex of Scripture --
_tIndex of Other Ancient Sources
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520 _aAmong 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 practice could have ever existed. Nonetheless, the existence of biblical condemnation of these rites attests to the fact that some ancient Israelites in fact did sacrifice their children. Indeed, a close reading of the evidence—biblical, archaeological, epigraphic, etc.—indicates that there are at least three different types of Israelite child sacrifice, each with its own history, purpose, and function.In addition to examining the historical reality of Israelite child sacrifice, Dewrell’s study also explores the biblical rhetoric condemning the practice. While nearly every tradition preserved in the Hebrew Bible rejects child sacrifice as abominable to Yahweh, the rhetorical strategies employed by the biblical writers vary to a surprising degree. Thus, even in arguing against the practice of child sacrifice, the biblical writers themselves often disagreed concerning why Yahweh condemned the rites and why they came to exist in the first place.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Ancient / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781646022014?locatt=mode:legacy
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