RELG 201 Lecture Notes - Asherah, Goat Fell, Israelites
12 Feb 2014
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Occupied area near judea before the israelites were there. Canaan = the promised land (as referred to in the hebrew bible) Worshipped a god mentioned several times in the hebrew bible baal: eventually became the arch-enemy of yahweh in the hebrew bible, many israelites when they moved there began to worship baal, baal is a fertility god. Ugarit v. impt city in the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium. Found only ruins ugarit was destroyed in the 12th century. The tablets they found described the religion of the people who were living in that region. Before not known at all: written in cuneiform but it was really an alphabet v. limited number of signs, very close to hebrew/arabic/aramaic so it was easy to decipher the ugaritic language. After the yahweh name was presented to moses: biblical scholars thought for centuries that el was just a general term for yahweh.
