King Manasseh and Child Sacrifice: Biblical Distortions of Historical Realities. By Francesca Stavrakopoulou
This is really a brace of books, though the two plots are skilfully interwoven, acting as ‘ideological boundary markers’, dealing respectively with the greatest of villains and the most scandalous of ritual malpractices in pre-exilic Judah. Both topics are hot potatoes!, The first part deals with th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 222-223 |
| Review of: | King Manasseh and child sacrifice (Berlin : de Gruyter, 2004) (Wyatt, N.)
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| Further subjects: | B
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| Summary: | This is really a brace of books, though the two plots are skilfully interwoven, acting as ‘ideological boundary markers’, dealing respectively with the greatest of villains and the most scandalous of ritual malpractices in pre-exilic Judah. Both topics are hot potatoes!, The first part deals with the figure of King Manasseh, who is presented by the author of Kings as the wickedest of all Judah's kings (even though Ahaz was manifestly worse), and who is represented as almost entirely to blame for the subsequent exile of the late sixth century. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm050 |