Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children to please the gods. Such a practive hovers in the background of Abraham’s (mercifully thwarted) sacrifice of Isaac. In the larger picture of Israel’s history, child sacrifice was forbidden.
Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children to please the gods. Such a practive hovers in the background of Abraham’s (mercifully thwarted) sacrifice of Isaac. In the larger picture of Israel’s history, child sacrifice was forbidden.