A recent study by academics at Oxford and elsewhere has concluded that grisly stories of ancient Phoenician child sacrifice were true:
"Children – both male and female, and mostly a few weeks old – were sacrificed by the Carthaginians at locations known as tophets. The practice was also carried out by their neighbours at other Phoenician colonies in Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Dedications from the children’s parents."
It seems like a lot of the suppression around these kinds of subjects could be because anything which “confirms” things reported in the Bible are treated with extreme hesitancy by the academic community. We heard all about the bronze bulls of the canaanites right? But to “prove” such “notions” was “a waste of time” and potentially even “dangerous”! It seems to me at least
A recent study by academics at Oxford and elsewhere has concluded that grisly stories of ancient Phoenician child sacrifice were true:
"Children – both male and female, and mostly a few weeks old – were sacrificed by the Carthaginians at locations known as tophets. The practice was also carried out by their neighbours at other Phoenician colonies in Sicily, Sardinia and Malta. Dedications from the children’s parents."
It seems like a lot of the suppression around these kinds of subjects could be because anything which “confirms” things reported in the Bible are treated with extreme hesitancy by the academic community. We heard all about the bronze bulls of the canaanites right? But to “prove” such “notions” was “a waste of time” and potentially even “dangerous”! It seems to me at least