King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice
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King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice

Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities

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King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice

Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities

About this book

The Hebrew Bible portrays King Manasseh and child sacrifice as the most reprehensible person and the most objectionable practice within the story of 'Israel'. This monograph suggests that historically, neither were as deviant as the Hebrew Bible appears to insist. Through careful historical reconstruction, it is argued that Manasseh was one of Judah's most successful monarchs, and child sacrifice played a central role in ancient Judahite religious practice. The biblical writers, motivated by ideological concerns, have thus deliberately distorted the truth about Manasseh and child sacrifice.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9783110179941
eBook ISBN
9783110899641
Edition
1
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Ancient Religion

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter 1: The Biblical Manasseh
  5. 1.1 The Manasseh of Kings
  6. 1.2 The Manasseh of Chronicles
  7. 1.3 The Scapegoating of Manasseh
  8. 1.4 Anti-Manasseh Polemic in the Hebrew Bible
  9. Chapter 2: The Historical Manasseh
  10. 2.1 The Separateness of Judah and Israel
  11. 2.2 The Fall of Samaria and the Non-Fall of Jerusalem
  12. 2.3 King Manasseh of Judah
  13. Chapter 3 : The Distortion of Manasseh
  14. 3.1 Afterlives of Manasseh
  15. 3.2 Distorting Manasseh
  16. Chapter 4: The Biblical Portrayal of Child Sacrifice
  17. 4.1 Child Sacrifice as a Foreign Practice
  18. 4.2 Child Sacrifice as a YHWH-Practice
  19. Chapter 5: The Historical Reality of Child Sacrifice
  20. 5.1 Mlk as an Ancient Near Eastern God of Child Sacrifice
  21. 5.2 Mlk as a Sacrificial Rite in the Phoenician and Punic Worlds
  22. 5.3 Mōlek as a Sacrificial Term in the Hebrew Bible
  23. 5.4 Child Sacrifice in the Deir ‘Alla Texts
  24. 5.5 Šadday as a God of Child Sacrifice
  25. 5.6 Child Sacrifice in Judah
  26. Chapter 6: The Distortion of Child Sacrifice
  27. 6.1 Afterlives of Child Sacrifice
  28. 6.2 Distorting Child Sacrifice
  29. Conclusions
  30. Bibliography
  31. Indexes
  32. Biblical Texts
  33. Non-Biblical Texts
  34. Authors
  35. Subjects