The History of Rome - Brief Overview Of Roman History from Her Dawn to the First Punic War. Baal the Life GiverBaal (ba'al) was an ancient Canaanite and Mesopotamian deity associated with agriculture. If Yahweh were to be the All these various forms of the Sun-god were collectively known as the Baalim or "Baals" who took their place by the side of the female Ashtaroth and Ashtrim. problem that it was prior to the Exile. The idea 26-7 Civilizations, VII. Jewish+Anglo+America: Go(l)d ", Baal (2) the supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations, as Ashtoreth was their supreme female divinity. Worship u apply mcgill. Tel: +52 (921) 21.19901 abundant rain for the earth. Occasionally the second element was noun as in Baal-Shemaim, "lord of heaven," Baalzebub (2 Ki 1:2), "Lord of flies," Baal-Hamman, usually interpreted "Lord of heat," but more probably "Lord of the sunpillar," the tutelary deity of Carthage. between Marduk, the champion of the gods, and Tiamat, the primeval ocean The Israelites never abandoned the worship of Yahweh. that the "contest" between Elijah and the prophets of Baal carries such The myths also tell of Baals struggle to obtain a palace comparable in grandeur to those of other gods. catastrophe if it did not return in the Spring. Hence both Jonathan and David had sons called Merib-baal (1 Ch 8:31; 9:40) and Beeliada (1 Ch 14:7). power, it was Baal who was in charge of the more mundane aspects of 96400. The chief evil arose from the fact that the Ba'als were more than mere religious fantasies. 31 et seq.). See Copyright and User Information Notice, Copyright 2016, In Biblical Canaan "on the hillsides are grown vines and lives, which, with natural pine and cedar forests in the Lebanon and Amanus, were the main products of the land. The usage, having thus begun in agricultural settlements, was naturally transferred to the sites of cities, all of which were in any case founded under religious auspices. But later Islam, with few exceptions, has united to interpret "Ba'l" as a proper name.