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The task of interpreting the Bible—a book written by and to people living in very different cultural contexts from contemporary Western society—can seem monumental. The opposite is also true: people can easily forget that studying the Bible is a type of cross-cultural encounter, instead reading their own cultural assumptions into biblical texts. In A Cultural Handbook to the Bible, John Pilch...

This Greek name derives from the Aramaic Ge-Hinnam, which in turn relates to the Hebrew Ge-Hinnom, the Valley of Hinnom, or, perhaps more accurately. the Valley of the Son of Hinnom. At one time, the family of Ben Hinnom owned most of the land. It is located south and southwest of Jerusalem. Ancient Canaanites were said to have practiced rituals of child sacrifice here, and some Israelites (e.g., Ahaz [2 Chron. 28:3; 2 Kings 16:3]) continued that kind of sacrifice to Canaanite gods. Jeremiah
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