This statistic is truly alarming. After all, God's nature is a foundational component of Christianity 101. Christian baptism is not baptism into Buddha, or into the Greek god Zeus, or into the ...

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set of tablets discovered in 1928 at Ras Shamra, north of Syria on the Mediterranean coast.

Readers of the Bible are probably familiar with the god, Baal, who was one of the chief rivals of the Hebrew God. The term “baal” appears over 90 times in the Hebrew Bible. Perhaps the best ...

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set of tablets discovered in 1928 at Ras Shamra, north of Syria on the Mediterranean coast.

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set of tablets discovered in 1928 at Ras Shamra, north of Syria on the Mediterranean coast. These texts date from around 1200 BC and were composed of ...

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set of tablets discovered in 1928 at Ras Shamra, north of Syria on the Mediterranean coast.

Additionally, two bronze bull figurines found in the favissa possibly represent powerful Canaanite gods, such as El, the head god, or Baal, the storm god. Archaeologists believe these items were ...

While the city was burned by invaders from the sea around 1200 B.C. and never rebuilt, the gods of the culture–of which Ugarit was only a part–were not forgotten. Archaeological evidence reveals that ...

Baal – Canaanite god of rain, thunder, and fertility. Baal is one of the most recognizable faces of Canaanite mythology, even if today he’s not remembered as a god at all.

Baal is a Canaanite and Phoenician deity and the son of the chief god El. In artistic depictions and archeological finds, Baal took the shape of a bull or ram and was associated with fertility. This ...