Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Brian Sullivan" <navillusbpi AT primus.com.au>]

Greetings to all

Alan Lloyd in his book 'Destroy Carthage - the death throes of an ancient 
culture'writes of the Carthaginian god Baal Hammon. The Carthaginians 
decended from the Biblical Phonicians and this god is remembered in the 
Bible as Molech or Moloch.
Atleast that is what I understand. However Mr. Lloyd clames that Baal 
Hammon is wrongly called Moloch as this word refers to 'a sacrificial 
offering, not a god' (p93 ibid).

Does anyone have any information on the Hebrew derivation of the term 
Moloch?  For the record, he writes of the evidence of the child sacrifice 
that the OT speaks of in Baal Hammons worship.

I would be very grateful of clarification of this word that research may 
have now revealed.

Very Sincerely,


Brian Sullivan
navillusbpi AT primus.com.au