(March 12, 2022 at 3:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Same link, just a bit further down.
Quote:While the names are indeed similar, the Old Testament text clearly differentiates between these deities on several occasions, most notably when referring to the national god of the Ammonites as Milcom and the god of human sacrifice as Moloch (1 Kings 11.33; Zephaniah 1.5). Further, the Old Testament mostly refers to Molech as Canaanite, rather than Ammonite. The Septuagint refers to Milcom in 1 Kings 11.7 when referring to Solomon's religious failings, instead of Moloch, which may have resulted from a scribal error in the Hebrew. Many English translations accordingly follow the non-Hebrew versions at this point and render Milcom.
Thing is, there isn't much that the OT has to say about canaanites that holds water. The people the ot is purportedly telling us about were canaanites. They just didn't enjoy that fact and, clearly, sought to change that situation.
True, which is ironic considering the OT actually arguably preserves the Canaanite origins by having Abraham settle there.
Regarding the horns and what you said earlier about horns simply being important to the religious culture of the time… couldn’t that in and of itself be a connection right there? Or is it assuming too much on specifics we don’t have?
