Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

Brian Roberts <formoria AT carolina.rr.com> wrote, inter alia:
".... your post has an elitist tone which is quite 
disturbing. Scholars are not a priesthood who can only be questioned 
seriously by other priests. We must not undervalue the perspective of 
the fresh eye, no matter whence it comes...."

Now this point of view is quite refreshing. To follow it through why reject 
Valikovsky, isn't that too a bit elitist? And while we are at it, how about 
Nostradamus?

Uri 



 
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Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Human Sacrifices
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?????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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From: "Yigal Levin" <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
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Subject: [b-hebrew] Human Sacrifices


> Actually, Shoshanna, there is very little actual evidence of human
sacrifice
> among the Canaanites. It is not mentioned in any contemporary
inscriptions,
> the biblical references are vague (Jerimiah deals with Israelites, not
> Canaanites!) and there is no clear archaeological evidence, such as the
> "Tophet" found at Carthage, from Canaanite sites. If human sacrifice was
> practiced at all, it was very rare, and only in times of extreme pressure.
> Look at 2 Kings 3:27: the Moabite king (NOT a Canaanite!) sacrificed his
own
> son, and God became angry at the Israelites and caused them to retreat!
Very
> strange. Not to mention what Abraham was willing to do to Isaac. Maybe not
> what God had intended, but nowhere does he repremand Abraham for being
> willing!
>
> Yigal
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> From: "Shoshanna Walker" <rosewalk AT concentric.net>
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> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 2:49 PM
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> > EVERYWHERE, G-d stresses that we are not to practice Baal worship,
> > and even tells us to wipe them out of the land.  One of the things
> > they did was sacrifice of PEOPLE!
> >
> > Shoshanna
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > HH: Do you really think that is what Amos and Jeremiah are doing. I
> > am flabbergasted. The law about sacrifices came from Sinai itself.
> > Your Tanakh turns into swiss cheese full of holes if you consider
> > sacrifice a foreign element that is false to true worship of Yahweh.
> >
> > HH: I think Jer 7:22-23 speaks of what had priority. What did God
> > stress when He first brought the people out of Egypt? I don't think
> > Amos 5:25 is denying that they brought sacrifices, but saying that
> > while they may have done that, they also carried their idols along
> > with them.
> >
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