RE: “The Horns of the Altar” and bulls?
March 12, 2022 at 3:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2022 at 3:17 am by JairCrawford.)
So far an interesting read, but one thing she mentions seems outdated to me. “North Syrian seals with their bull motifs may give evidence of a probable Moloch cult” seems outdated because IIRC, current scholarship is of the position that there is little to no evidence of any deity called “Moloch” in the ANE. Rather it is possible the word “molek” (possible cognates of “molk”, or “mulk”) refers to a specific type of sacrificial ritual that would become outlawed in Israel and Judah. But so far that’s the only thing that’s stuck out to me as questionable in her paper.