{"id":135833,"date":"2022-02-19T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/canaanite-religion"},"modified":"2022-02-19T14:22:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T22:22:22","slug":"canaanite-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/canaanite-religion","title":{"rendered":"Canaanite religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/canaanite-religion.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Study of the evolution of monotheism is instructive. Jolly Jehovah did not burst forth fully formed overnight. Prof Orly Goldwasser explains how Amen and Ra are \u201cbetter\u201d Gods than Set of Avaris, the first recorded monotheist deity in her 2006 paper on King Apophis. There is evidence of interchangeable identity between Set and Ba\u2019al Hadad. \u201cAccording to the <i>Canaanite<\/i> pantheon, known in Ugarit as \u2018ilhm (=Elohim) or the children of El (cf. the Biblical \u201csons of God\u201d), supposedly obtained by Philo of Byblos from Sanchuniathon of Berythus (Beirut) the creator was known as Elion (Biblical El Elyon = God most High), who was the father of the divinities, and in the Greek sources he was married to Beruth (Beirut = the city). This marriage of the divinity with the city would seem to have Biblical parallels too with the stories of the link between Melkart and Tyre; Yahweh and Jerusalem; Chemosh and Moab; Tanit and Baal Hammon in Carthage. El Elyon is mentioned as \u2018God Most High\u2019 occurs in Genesis 14.18\u221219 as the God whose priest was Melchizedek king of Salem.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<i>Canaanite<\/i> religion is the name for the group of Ancient Semitic religions practiced by the <i>Canaanite<\/i>s living in the ancient Levant from at least the early Bronze Age through the first centuries of the Common Era. <i>Canaanite<\/i> religion was polytheistic or monolatristic, worshiping one god while acknowledging the existence of others. The sources for <i>Canaanite<\/i> religion come either from literary sources written by the early Hebrews, or from archaeological discoveries. The <i>Canaanite<\/i> wrote on papyrus and.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study of the evolution of monotheism is instructive. Jolly Jehovah did not burst forth fully formed overnight. Prof Orly Goldwasser explains how Amen and Ra are \u201cbetter\u201d Gods than Set of Avaris, the first recorded monotheist deity in her 2006 paper on King Apophis. There is evidence of interchangeable identity between Set and Ba\u2019al Hadad. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":464,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/464"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}