(September 23, 2012 at 10:57 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Bible scholar Robert M. Price discusses it in this episode if I remember it correctly http://www.thehumanbible.net/episode_002/Two minor issues with your conclusion:
(September 23, 2012 at 10:55 pm)Drich Wrote: So a child wasn't sacerficed is that your new assertion?
God commanded child sacrifice. Are you denying that? It's right there in the verses I quoted.
It was undoubtedly part of early hebrew practice just like the rest of the cultures of the time.
1) I asked for book chapter and verse that shows where a Child was sacerficed to God, which you are not able to do.
2) Aberham and Isac lived long before their were "Hebrews" let alone a written "Hebrew" Law that would establish a "Hebrew Practice."