New Canaan: Excavations shedding new light on Canaanites

Sunday Gazette-Mail | August 30, 1998| | Copyright

RAS SHAMRA, Syria - To the prophets of the Old Testament, the Canaanite god Baal was a symbol of decadence and his popularity such a threat that Elijah took 450 priests of Baal "to the brook and slew them there."

Now, a new image of the Canaanite religion is emerging as archaeologists decipher thousands of texts left behind in the ancient city of Ugarit, where Baal was the patron god.

The texts reveal a wealthy and sophisticated Canaanite society that imported alabaster from Egypt and timber from Anatolia and whose religious services and hymns strikingly resembled those of the ancient ...

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