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>From: "Jonathan D. Safren" <yon_saf AT bezeqint.net>
>To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Monotheism was: "admittedly syncretistic..
>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 11:02:12 +0200
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> The God who accepts human sacrifice in Jud. 11 is not the same God who
forbids it in >Deuteronomy.
God accepting human sacrifice? No, but a man who made a rash vow, never
intending it to be a human sacrifice, but determined to keep his vow to the
letter. Jud. 11 gives no indication of God's reaction to this sacrifice.