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Tophet and Child Sacrifice
Were living Children Sacrificed to the Gods? Yes. The thousands of individual burials, the several mass burials and the animal burials all demonstrate that these were sacrificial offerings to the gods. By Lawrence E. Stager, Joseph A. Greene This article at BAS is primarily about Carthage but acknowledges the Tophet at Jerusalem. Evidence from the Hebrew Bible. […]
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See at the BSA Library: Child Sacrifice at Carthage—Religious Rite or Population Control? Archaeological evidence provides basis for a new analysis by Lawrence E. Stager, Samuel Wolff Opening paragraph – “Tophet” is a Biblical word. It is the name of a place that was on the south side of ancient Jerusalem in the Valley of Ben-Hinnom, where […]
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