Amberg
Amberg , city (1994 pop. 44,213), Bavaria, S central Germany, on the Vils River. The large iron mines have been worked since the Middle Ages. Until 1810, Amberg was capital of the Upper Palatinate. At Amberg in 1796, Archduke Charles of Austria defeated the French under Marshal Jean Baptiste Jourdan. St. Martin's church (15th cent.) and the town hall (14th-16th cent.) are the city's outstanding buildings.
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HELL ON EARTH; The scorched rockwalls of a valley below Jerusalem are saturated with the blood of untold abominations. This is the pit, the root of our worst fears.
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/29/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...scorched stone that held the infamous Tophet, pagan altars created hundreds of years before Christ. Tophet altars are said to be named for the noisy...glorified the act. Beneath the ancient Tophet altars, one can still see foreboding...
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The deep-woods origins of Down-East expressions.(The Home Forum)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/26/2002; 700+ words
; ...bind, a fix, a to-do. There's all tophet to pay, and no pitch hot. I told the...trouble. Further explanation: To "pay tophet" was a big job. The seams of a vessel...the crack with hot tar, or pitch. Tophet was the Yankee euphemism for all perdition...
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Carthage: the final frontier: Islands The tiny Italian island of Mozia, just a flooded cart track away from Sicily, was once home to a great Phoenician metropolis. 2,500 years on, the Carthaginian spirit still lingers among the ruins
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...so far are the old necropolis and the Tophet burial ground. Today all that remains...some stelae and a few amphorae but the tophet is where the Phoenicians would have carried...that only large and important cities had tophets signifies that there may be more lurking...
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IN SEARCH OF DIDO; No, not the folksy pop singer... Wendy Gomersall goes to Tunisia in search of the legendary queen of Carthage and finds a land steeped in romantic ruins.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 8/22/2004; 700+ words
; ...sailing the coastline. And we see the Tophet burial sanctuary. Through modern eyes...sacrifice. But here's the evidence at the Tophet: hundreds of small tombstones commemorating...the Bardo Museum. For this reason, the Tophet, with its mysterious carvings symbolising...
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New look at Carthage Metaphor for destruction has become a tourist site
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 11/26/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...that was used as a merchant port. One very eerie site is the Tophet, which looks like a dainty little garden of low trees and wild...full, it was covered with dirt and a new layer was begun. At Tophet today, visitors are able to contemplate little tombstones that...
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IN NAMES, LANDSCAPES, THE PATTERNS THAT SURPRISE AND REVEAL
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 4/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...for example, "name-strings." In the Bible and "Pilgrim's Progress," tophet is a word for hell. In New England, there is a string of swamps named Tophet at 10- to 15-mile intervals between Lexington and New Ipswich, N.H. "The...
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'Stag' carries Kage Baker back to fantasy
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 9/7/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...t disappoint in this non-"Company" offering. -- "Lord Tophet" (Del Rey, $14, 216 pages) is a worthy conclusion to the...and if it's as successful as "Shadowbridge" and "Lord Tophet," it will be something to look forward to. -- Liz Williams...
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POZO MORO, CHILD SACRIFICE, AND THE GREEK LEGENDARY TRADITION
Magazine article from: Journal of Biblical Literature; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...children and animals. Archaeologists call such burial grounds tophets after the Hebrew term for the place where children were sacrificed...Shelby Brown, who sums up the evidence, believes that these tophets house the remains of sacrificed children and thereby support...
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Fortschreibungen: Gesammelte Studien zum Alten Testament
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...about child sacrifice in the Book of Jeremiah (Jer 19:5; 32:35) and is the most ancient OT text about child sacrifice in Tophet (Valley of Hinnom). In "Die Entstehung der Rechabiter" (pp. 242-55), L. describes Jonadab (1 Kgs 10:15) as a...
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MISCELLANEOUS
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record; 3/26/1986; 700+ words
; Roger A. Eastman, 16 Tophet Road, Lynnfield, Massachusetts; Eric P.& Edelstein, 17 Brentwood Drive, North Caldwell, New Jersey; Bert T. Edwards...
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Tophet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tophet , in the Bible, place near Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom , associated with the worship of Molech . Tophet became a name for hell .
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Crom Crúaich
Book article from: A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
...Crúaich. The portrayal of the cruel idol demanding human sacrifices may be an echo of the scriptural accounts of Tophet and Moloch, as Eoin MacNeill has suggested. Nevertheless, certain stones are still accorded magical powers in isolated parts...
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Molech
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...later period represented by the Hebrew Bible, according to which Solomon and later Ahaz introduced the worship of him into Judah. He had a sanctuary at Tophet, in the valley of Hinnom S of Jerusalem. Milcom may be identifiable with Molech.
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Hinnom
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Its ill repute in the Bible emanated from the worship there of foreign gods, including supposed child sacrifice to Molech at Tophet . In later Jewish literature it was called Ge-Hinnom [Heb.,=valley of Hinnom] and in the Greek of the New Testament...
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hell
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...is Satan or Lucifer (also known as Iblīs in Islam), considered the ruler of hell. Among ancient Jews, Sheol or Tophet was conceived as a gloomy place of departed souls where they are not tormented but wander about unhappily. The ethical aspect...
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