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 ...

Mr Douthat does not stop there. He tackles other problems that have hitherto been considered thorny and briskly answers them, ...

Among the colorful variety of ancient Southwest Asian traditions of gods battling sea monsters is even a Canaanite myth in which the god Baal kills the monstrous sea serpent Litan, whose name and ...

In it, Cahn puts forward the thesis that ancient Near Eastern gods like Moloch, Asherah, Baal, and others, to whom humans were sacrificed, did not go away (because they are demons, not mere ...

A number of ancient texts mention the Phoenicians ... The three most important Carthaginian gods were Baal, often referred to ...