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A World of El and Baal
What did the shared religious world of the Late Bronze Age Levant look like before Israel appears in the historical record?
Part I — The World Israel Inherited
What religious world surrounded early Israel?
What did the shared religious world of the Late Bronze Age Levant look like before Israel appears in the historical record?
Ugarit preserves a West Semitic religious world populated by El, Athirat, Baal, Yam, Mot, Anat, and other divine figures whose relationships illuminate the cultural world from which Israelite religion later emerged.
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