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Idolatry and Future Generations: the Persistence of Molech
Author(s) -
Muers Rachel
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0025.00236
Subject(s) - idolatry , cult , interpretation (philosophy) , judaism , context (archaeology) , philosophy , epistemology , persistence (discontinuity) , religious studies , theology , history , linguistics , geotechnical engineering , archaeology , engineering
Drawing on the work of Jewish text scholars and the philosophy of Levinas and Rosenzweig, this article uses the biblical texts on Molech, and issues in their interpretation, as the starting‐point for an analysis of the intergenerational structure of idolatry. In the context of attention to this structure, and to the particular implications of this for Christians as “Gentiles”, the death of Jesus can be read in ways that subvert the patterns of the Molech cult.