BURNING ISSUES: MLK REVISITED.
Basing themselves on otto eissfeldt's 1935 work on the Phoenician-Punic sacrifice known as molk, many biblical scholars followed in his footsteps and opted to substitute the biblical deity Mōlek in the Hebrew Bible with this sacrificial term. However there always were other scholars who disagreed wi...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Semitic Studies Vol. 61; no. 2; pp. 347 - 365 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Autumn2016
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