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Subject: [b-hebrew] KHEREM vs MOLOKH
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 02:42:40 -0500
Michael Millier <deborahmillier AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> ... do you not think that KHEREM has an underlying
> idea of human sacrifice (to YHWH?!?!)? From the
> word's various contexts, I think I'm inclined to
> believe so.
het-resh-mem = banned, forbidden; anathema, taboo
(compare Hermes who lived at Mt. Hermon and the
Strait of Hormuz before he moved to Mt. Olympus)
+
is a near (sound-alike) reversal of
mem-lamed-khaf = MoLeKH/Moloch, a Canaanite god
that required human sacrifice.
izzy_cohen AT bmc.com
[b-hebrew] KHEREM vs MOLOKH,
Cohen, Izzy, 07/05/2003