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Moloch is a name or term that appears several times in the Hebrew Bible, primarily in the book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices associated with Moloch, which appear to have included child sacrifice. Traditionally, Moloch has been understood as referring to a Canaanite god. However, since 1935 scholars have debated whether the term instead refers to a type of sacrifice on the basis of a similar term used to mean "sacrifice" (mlk) in the Punic language. This second position has grown increasingly popular but remains contested. A god Moloch appears in various works of literature, such as John Milton's Paradise Lost, Gustave Flaubert's Salammbô, and Allen Ginsberg's "Howl".