Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Children Sacrificed as Part of a "Molek" Rite
Those Who Deny the Existence of a God "Molek"
Scholars Who Continue to Argue That "Molek" Was a Deity
"Molek" Disappears Once Again
Chapter 2. Archaeological, Iconographic, and Epigraphic Evidence for Child Sacrifice in the Levant and Central Mediterranean
Megiddo, Gezer, and Taanach
The Amman Airport Temple and Umm el-Marra
Alleged Depictions of Canaanite Child Sacrifice in Egyptian Art
The Punic Central Mediterranean
More Evidence from the Levant? Tyre and Achziv
The Nebi Yunis Inscription
The Incirli Trilingual
The Deir ʿAllā Inscriptions
The Idalion Inscription
Summary and Conclusions
Appendix: Documentation of Sites with Tophets
Chapter 3. A General Sacrifice of Firstborn Israelite Children?
Chapter 4. Varieties of Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel
Mesha's Sacrifice of His Firstborn Son
Firstborn Offerings in Micah 6:1–8
Jephthah
Hiel's Firstborn and Youngest Sons?
Child Sacrifice in Assyrian Samerina?
Molek Revisited: The History and Nature of Israelite למלך Sacrifices
Conclusions
Chapter 5. Biblical Reactions to Israelite Child Sacrifice
Deuteronomy
Later Legal Traditions
Ezekiel
Jeremiah
Conclusions
Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography
Indexes
Index of Authors
Index of Scripture
Index of Other Ancient Sources
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