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It was the program of Jezebel, in the 9th century BCE, to introduce into Israel's capital city of Samaria her Phoenician worship of Baal as opposed to the worship of Yahweh that made the name anathema to the Israelites. [58] At first the name Baal was used by the Jews for their God without discrimination, but as the struggle between the two ...
Worship of Baal and Yahweh coexisted in the early period of Israel's history, but they were considered irreconcilable after the 9th century BCE, following the efforts of King Ahab and his queen Jezebel to elevate Baal to the status of national god, [41] although the cult of Baal did continue for some time. [42]
In the period from the 9th century BC through to the Babylonian exile certain features of the Israelite religion were differentiated from the Yahweh cult, identified as Canaanite, and rejected: examples include Baal, child sacrifice, the asherah poles, worship of the sun and moon, and the cults of the "high places". [4]
Yahweh , national god of the Israelites and central figure of worship in Yahwism. Yam (lit. ' sea-river ') the god of the sea and rivers, [25] also called Judge Nahar (judge of the river). [26] [27] [28] [full citation needed] Yarhibol, solar god and "lord of the spring". Part of a trinity of co-supreme gods of Palmyra, Syria along with Aglibol ...
According to Yehezkel Kaufmann, "Baal-berith and El-berith of Judges 9:4,46 is presumably YHWH", as "ba'al was an epithet of YHWH in earlier times". [ 4 ] Elsewhere, some of the Shechemites are called "men of Hamor"; [ 5 ] this is compared to "sons of Hamor", which in the ancient Middle East referred to people who had entered into a covenant ...
According to Israel Finkelstein and Thomas Romer, the possibility that Kiriath-ba‘al/Ba‘alah was the original name of the town, or more correctly its Northern name, hints that the god YHWH was worshipped as Baal, before that title became a negative link with "foreign" (Phoenician or other) storm gods. [10]
The first was the worship of Yahweh; the religion of ancient Israel is sometimes referred to by modern scholars as Yahwism. [34] The Hebrew Bible, however, states that some of the northern Israelites also adored Baal (see 1 Kings 16:31 and the Baal cycle discovered at Ugarit). [34]
Shectman also noted that Numbers 8:19 claimed that a "plague will strike the Israelites when they go near the sanctuary", [35] and in Numbers 16:42–50 [36] (or Numbers 17:7–15 in some Bible editions [37]), this actually happened and 14,700 Israelites died of a plague before Aaron stopped it by making an incense offering to Yahweh. [3]