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Canaanite religion was a group of ancient Semitic religions practiced by the Canaanites living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age to the first centuries CE. Canaanite religion was polytheistic and in some cases monolatristic. It was influenced by neighboring cultures, particularly ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide ... Canaanite pantheon; Celtic pantheon; Chinese pantheon ...
The Sarcophagus of Eshmunazar II was the first of this type of inscription found anywhere in the Levant (modern Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria). [1] [2]The Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions, also known as Northwest Semitic inscriptions, [3] are the primary extra-Biblical source for understanding of the societies and histories of the ancient Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arameans.
Canaan [i] [1] [2] was a Semitic-speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd millennium BC.Canaan had significant geopolitical importance in the Late Bronze Age Amarna Period (14th century BC) as the area where the spheres of interest of the Egyptian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Assyrian Empires converged or overlapped.
The Lives of Ordinary People in Ancient Israel: Where Archaeology and the Bible Intersect 2005 book by William G. Dever Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-2852-3 , 2005) [ 1 ] is a book by Syro-Palestinian archaeologist William G. Dever , Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Archeology and Anthropology at the ...
The Baal Cycle is an Ugaritic text (c. 1500–1300 BCE) about the Canaanite god Baสฟal (๐๐๐ lit. "Owner", "Lord"), a storm god associated with fertility.. The Baal Cycle consists of six tablets, itemized as KTU 1.1–1.6.
The Canaanite city state system broke down during the Late Bronze Age collapse, [21] and Canaanite culture was then gradually absorbed into those of the Philistines, Phoenicians and Israelites. [22] The process was gradual [ 23 ] and a strong Egyptian presence continued into the 12th century BCE, and, while some Canaanite cities were destroyed ...
Israel and Judah, like other Canaanite kingdoms, originally had a full pantheon of gods. [47] The chief of the old Canaanite pantheon was the god El, but over time Yahweh replaced him as the national god and the two merged. [47] The remaining gods were now subject to Yahweh: "Who in the sky is comparable to Yahweh, like Yahweh among the divine ...