Yes, YHWH wants you to sacrifice your sons: a conversation with Dr. Heath Dewrell, Part 1

What's the deal with all the child sacrifice stories, threats and commandments in the Bible? Did God want the Israelites to sacrifice their children? How should we understand this complicated topic in this tremendously complex collection of literature?

Dr. ‪@JoelKorytko‬ is a faculty member at Northwest Seminary & College in Langley, Canada, and he has recently forwarded arguments about two particular texts in the Bible, which seem to suggest that YHWH approved of child sacrifice. He has appeared on ‪@InspiringPhilosophy‬ to make his case, and in this video I am joined by friend and colleague, Dr. Dan McLellan, ‪@maklelan‬, and Dr. Heath Dewrell, an Assistant Professor in the Department for Middle Eastern Studies, and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Classics at UT Austin. Dr. Dewrell is the man who literally wrote the book on this topic, "Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel." He and Dan help me to navigate and respond to Joel's case.

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Dr. Korytko's full presentation about child sacrifice in Exodus and Ezekiel:    • Why Ezekiel 20:25-26 and Exodus 22:28(29) ...  
Dan's video:    • Episode 21 (August 28, 2023), "Did the Exo...  
Joel's discussion with ‪@InspiringPhilosophy‬:    • Do these Old Testament texts affirm child ...  

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