Sentences with phrase «of child sacrifice»

This is not the first evidence of child sacrifice in the ancient past.

In addition, we will need extra children so that we can maintain current production levels while having enough surplus to continue our program of child sacrifice.

The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity By Jon D. Levenson Yale University Press.

The problem is, the translators have achieved this lucidity by changing the very text of scripture, by conflating the verse with the previous one (Leviticus 18:21) which is a condemnation of the practice of child sacrifice in the temple of Molech.

Jews read this passage on Rosh Hashanah, Muslims on Eid Al Ahda — and some in both communities wonder whether it isn't time to become more modern and avoid this discussion of child sacrifice.

He dreams that he officiates at some barbarous rite of child sacrifice in the time of Homer.

The Aconcagua boy died as part of an Incan ritual of child sacrifice called capacocha.

Grim discoveries there are shedding light on a long tradition of child sacrifices.

Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School and the author of Creation and the Persistence of Evil: The Jewish Drama of Divine Omnipotence (Princeton University Press) and The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son: The Transformation of Child Sacrifice in Judaism and Christianity (Yale University Press).

The notion that man must surrender his dearest possession on earth to his deity — the supreme instance is that of child sacrifice — is so fundamental that it can not be dismissed as mythology.