From the mountains of Turkey to the banks of the Nile, the most wide-spread religion of the ancient world in the Middle East was the worship of the male Moon-god. Sin is the name of the moon god, essentially Sumerian in origin which had been borrowed by the Semites.The Moon-god Sin was usually represented by the moon in its crescent phase. The Old Testament constantly rebuked the worship of the Moon-god (see: Deut. 4:19;17:3; II Kngs. 21:3,5; 23:5; Jer. 8:2; 19:13; Zeph. 1:5, etc.) When Israel…
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