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by gordian-not
1107 days ago
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In ancient religions, and especially Canaanite there was a great emphasis on bringing your best offerings to god, best fruits, most expensive wine and top meat. It will be unusual that for children the unwanted ones suddenly are considered a good offering |
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Seems like a win-win for me. The child is suddenly no longer unwanted but your ‘most prized possession’.
To be serious I’m not necessarily claiming that sacrifice was a direct alternative to infanticide just that there might have been some links and generally the fact that infanticide was quite widespread made sacrifice a bit more palatable.