Baal Cycle

September 21, 2025 - The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1300–1100 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baʿal (𐎁𐎓𐎍 lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. It consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6. Tablets one (KTU 1.1) and two (KTU 1.2) are about the cosmic battle between ...

May 29, 2023 - Baal is a young god, the son of Dagon, and his wife is Asherah (a name you might also recognise from the Old Testament).[1] He is a warrior god, he often brings thunder and lightning, and is in control of both fertility and rain.

July 4, 2021 - It has also meant husband in the OT and continues to used in both senses in modern times. Baali would be how a woman was expected to address her husband ie, my master.

February 8, 2025 - You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place. You set up all the boundaries of the earth; you created the cycle of summer and winter. Psa 74:13-17 (NET) Why is God crushing the plural heads of Leviathan? Because as the Baal cycle informs us Leviathan had seven heads.

Smith, Mark S., and Wayne T. Pitard. 2009. The Ugaritic Baal Cycle, Volume II: Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 114.

Divine Geography and Family Relations in the Baal Cycle ...

(Coogan great book translates fragments from Ugarit. With "The Baal Cycle" the author attempts to tell the wider story of Canaanite mythology.) Most books written about Canaanite mythology are academic and are written in a way that is not accessible to the general public.

The longest and most important religious text from ancient Ugarit, the Baal Cycle witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and the larger background to many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible.

The Baal Cycle is to the Baal religion what the New Testament is to Christians or the Enuma Elish to the Babylonians. It begins with the demand of the old water god Yamm—perhaps a male equivalent of the Babylonian Tiamat—that Baal accept ...

November 2, 2018 - Clay tablets engraved with cuneiform script preserving the Ugaritic poem known as the Baal Cycle, a story featuring gods from Canaanite-Phoenician religion. The Baal Cycle tells the story of the sea god Yamm's conflict with the fertility god Baal, his defeat, and Baal’s supremacy over chaos and death.

April 5, 2025 - Author: Ilimilku, court scribe ... 1400 B.C.E. DescriptionThe first of a series of stories centering on the storm-god Baal, otherwise known as Hadad, describing his battle with the sea-god Yam....

In Ugaritic the Baal Cycle, the storm god Baal commands the construction of his divine palace on Mount Sapan. Psalm 48 echoes this image by naming the divine mountain Sapan in its description of Zion, associating it with divine kingship.

The Baal Myth from Ugarit, also known as the Baal Cycle, is an ancient narrative that centers around Baal, the storm god worshipped in the ancient city of Ugarit, located in present-day Syria.

These Ugaritic texts, along with other ancient sources, help us to reconstruct the beliefs of the ancient Canaanites and widen our understanding of the Sacred Scriptures. This book is an illustrated version and extended edition of the story of the “Epic of Baal the God of Thunder.”

The longest and most important religious text from ancient Ugarit, the Baal Cycle witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and the larger background to many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible.

The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic cycle of stories about the Canaanite god Baʿal (lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility. It is one of the Ugarit texts, dated to c. 1500-1300 BCE.

Mark S. Smith and Wayne T. Pitard have produced the only commentary of its kind on the Ugaritic Baal Cycle, a collection of ancient Ugaritic stories centered around the Canaanite god Baal and his quest to become king.

The interdisciplinary seminar on the Jewish Roots of Eastern Christian Mysticism is designed as the internet version of an ongoing research seminar of graduate students at the department of theology of Marquette University (Milwaukee, USA). The seminar is directed by Andrei Orlov, a professor ...

Mark S. Smith and Wayne T. Pitard have produced the only commentary of its kind on the Ugaritic Baal Cycle, a collection of ancient Ugaritic stories centered around the Canaanite god Baal and his quest to become king.