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Anonymous ID: 4f79ba Sept. 18, 2022, 5:36 p.m. No.17540526   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0540

>>17540403

Are you immune to facts, or is the narrative that's important?

 

Contrary to the entire thesis of Molech as a divine name is the proposal of EISSFELDT (1935), that OT Molech is to be related to Punic molk/mulk, a technical term used in a cult of child sacrifice, and known from inscribed stelae in burial grounds at Carthage and elsewhere.

 

Eissfeldt’s proposal has been widely persuasive, as it is founded on a rare combination of comparative literary, inscriptional and archaeological evidence. Both classical and patristic writers testify to a cult of child sacrifice, particularly in times of military emergency, in Phoenicia and at Carthage (translations are conveniently provided by DAY 1989:86–91).

 

Finally, “sacrificial precincts” (or “tophets”, borrowing the Biblical term for the locus of the Molech cult) have been excavated at Punic colonial sites in Sicily, Sardinia and North Africa, all containing the remains of children, as well as small animals.

 

Heider, G. C. (1999). Molech. In K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, & P. W. van der Horst (Eds.), Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible (2nd extensively rev. ed., p. 582). Brill; Eerdmans.

Anonymous ID: 4f79ba Sept. 18, 2022, 5:55 p.m. No.17540608   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>0657

The bible starts out warning the Israelites about the gods of foreign countries. but after some time they fuck up as usual and some of them start the molech thing in Israel. But the practice clearly started in Carthage/N Africa.

 

From DDD:

 

That this linkage is not limited to this one passage is shown by Deut 18:9–14 which, although it does not contain the term Molech, includes at the head of a roster of “abominable practices of those nations” (i.e. the Canaanites) “one who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire” (maʿăbîr bĕnô-ûbittô bāʾēš). There follows then a list of (other) illicit practitioners of contact with the spirit world: diviners, soothsayers, augurs, sorcerers, charmers, mediums, wizards, necromancers.

That the OT sees the cult of Molech as essentially a Canaanite practice (indeed, as the archetypical Canaanite abomination) is indicated both in Deuteronomy (12:31) and in the Deuteronomistic summary of the fall of the Northern Kingdom (2 Kgs 17:17). However, with the exception of the latter verse, its practice in Israel appears to have been restricted to the environs of Jerusalem. Both Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:3) and Manasseh (2 Kgs 21:6) are explicitly accused of participation, while Josiah is credited with having “defiled the Topheth, which is in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, that no one might cause his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech” (2 Kgs 23:10). In fact, while the evidence is all too scanty, it appears to be within the realm of possibility that the cult was practised by the Jerusalem establishment prior to Josiah, presumably subsumed within the cult of Yahweh

 

Heider, G. C. (1999). Molech. In K. van der Toorn, B. Becking, & P. W. van der Horst (Eds.), Dictionary of deities and demons in the Bible (2nd extensively rev. ed., pp. 583–584). Brill; Eerdmans.

Anonymous ID: 4f79ba Sept. 18, 2022, 6:04 p.m. No.17540653   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>17540638

My 88 yo mom did not believe me. Now she does.

She sees the whole covid scam now. I refused to let her get any more vaccines. She didn't like that back then. She couldn't wait to put a mask on at someone's request (those you trust the most) Now I hear no complaints.

Anonymous ID: 4f79ba Sept. 18, 2022, 6:12 p.m. No.17540684   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>17540657

Are you aware you no nothing?

demons are the lowest on the spiritual totem

 

do you know anything about the difference in translation of words re: demon satan devil god spirit beings???

you see two words in English and think the root original word was also the same

 

do ever tell me anything dunce