Glenfiddich?
Hmmmmm, nah - Laphroaig!
Seriously;
As you know, as an Egypt-type geek, I looked at the three or four thousand years of the Nile valley and surrounding civilisations.
Most, in cluding Egypt, practiced some form of human sacrifice around 3000BC. By 1500 BC, none of the major powers touched it with a ten foot ankh.
As a Christian, I obviously think a lot about Israel and her history from c1000BC onwards.
However, as a historian, while I recognise that, biblically, the events surrounding the states in what is now Syria-Palestine are vitally important, to be honest, they were never more than a footnote in history.
The major powers - Egypt, Naharin, Mittanni, and later, Assyria, Babylon and Persia, played them against each other, much as America and Russia did during the cold war.
And those major powers, whom Sass would describe as pagan, had long abandoned human sacrifice (mainly because it was uneconomic), and, indeed, adopted many and various law codes which bear striking similarities to the Ten Commandments.
