Tuesday, August 07, 2012

This is Moloch?

Yikes.




For more on Moloch, see pp. 37 - 39 in Bamot Ba'al, one of the most unusual seforim ever written.

9 comments:

  1. What pagination are you using? its a 92 page work, and pages 36-39 dont say anything about Moloch. (Dogon, yes, Molech, no.)

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  2. The Hebrew pagination. It is on page 72 of the pdf.

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  3. So this thing had mechanical arms that could swoop down to accept an "offering"? The scale of the illustration is confusing; the poor kid looks much too big.

    Once, when my grandmother's Jewish neighbor made a barbecue on Shabbos, her comment was, "Er brent tzu Moylech."

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  4. http://www.hebrewbooks.org/pdfpager.aspx?req=38431&st=&pgnum=73&hilite=

    Now that's better!

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  5. What's the book it's coming from?

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  6. Actually from what I understand, "Molech" is false idea created after people forgot what the real understanding of the passages relating to "Molech" in the Bible text are found. From what I understand "Molech" is actually a word meaning something like "pass through offering" and refers to the offering of first-born children. Confirmation of this comes from the fact that there has been no regarding a deity named "Molech."

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  7. Sorry, I have been drinking and left some words out:

    ..."Molech" is *a* false idea...

    ...there has been no "archaeological finds regarding...

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  8. "Actually from what I understand, "Molech" is false idea created after people forgot what the real understanding of the passages relating to "Molech" in the Bible text are found. From what I understand "Molech" is actually a word meaning something like "pass through offering" and refers to the offering of first-born children. Confirmation of this comes from the fact that there has been no regarding a deity named "Molech.""

    Sort of like the Celtic ritual of Belantine

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