Summary and Conclusions

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Children Sacrificed as Part of a “Molek” Rite 4
7. Chapter 2. Archaeological, Iconographic, and Epigraphic Evidence for Child Sacrifice in the Levant and Central Mediterranean 37
8. Chapter 3. A General Sacrifice of Firstborn Israelite Children? 72
9. Chapter 4. Varieties of Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel 91
10. Chapter 5. Biblical Reactions to Israelite Child Sacrifice 148
11. Summary and Conclusions 191
12. Bibliography 195
13. Index of Authors 221
14. Index of Scripture 227
15. Index of Other Ancient Sources 235