King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities

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Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Biblical Manasseh 1.1 The Manasseh of Kings 1.2 The Manasseh of Chronicles 1.3 The Scapegoating of Manasseh 1.4 Anti-Manasseh Polemic in the Hebrew Bible Chapter 2: The Historical Manasseh 2.1 The Separateness of Judah and Israel 2.2 The Fall of Samaria and the Non-Fall of Jerusalem 2.3 King Manasseh of Judah Chapter 3 : The Distortion of Manasseh 3.1 Afterlives of Manasseh 3.2 Distorting Manasseh Chapter 4: The Biblical Portrayal of Child Sacrifice 4.1 Child Sacrifice as a Foreign Practice 4.2 Child Sacrifice as a YHWH-Practice Chapter 5: The Historical Reality of Child Sacrifice 5.1 Mlk as an Ancient Near Eastern God of Child Sacrifice 5.2 Mlk as a Sacrificial Rite in the Phoenician and Punic Worlds 5.3 Mōlek as a Sacrificial Term in the Hebrew Bible 5.4 Child Sacrifice in the Deir ‘Alla Texts 5.5 Šadday as a God of Child Sacrifice 5.6 Child Sacrifice in Judah Chapter 6: The Distortion of Child Sacrifice 6.1 Afterlives of Child Sacrifice 6.2 Distorting Child Sacrifice Conclusions Bibliography Indexes Biblical Texts Non-Biblical Texts Authors Subjects