Is it luck that ancient texts claim (like the Book of Abraham) that children were being sacrificed to idols in Abraham’s area?

In Abraham 1:8 we learn that children were being sacrificed to idols:

Now, at this time it was the custom of the priest of Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, to offer up upon the altar which was built in the land of Chaldea, for the offering unto these strange gods, men, women, and children.

Jeff Lindsay notes how this is also confirmed by other texts including:

• The Kebra Nagast
• The Book of the Cave of Treasures
• An anonymous Christian chronicle
• Book of the Rolls
• The Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan
• The writings of the Persian historian al-Biruni
• Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical Antiquities
• Chronicles of Jerahmeel
• Many Jewish and Arabic texts

Why would so many texts agree with Joseph Smith? Where did he learn this information from?

See:

• Jeff Lindsay – Questions about the Book of Abraham, Part 3: Does It Agree with other Ancient Texts?

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