Redlands Daily Facts

Professing Faith: History of the ancient god Baal

Q: Can you tell me where to find some information on the ancient god Baal? A: Today’s question comes to me by email from a Protestant minister, although she does not tell me if she is local or distant ...
Dread Central

Ba’al: The Storm God (2008)

Back in June the Sci-Fi Channel was scheduled to premiere an original movie entitled NYC: Tornado Terror. Days before its premiere a real-life tornado struck a Boy ...
The Times of Israel

From Hevel to Ba’al to Bilaam: The Beit-Lamed Root

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Professing Faith: These 3 characters in paganism are not the same

In today’s column, Father Gregory Elder responds to a recurring question from readers. Q: Here is a question for you that comes to my mind: Are Baal, Mithra and Molech all the same or different? And ...
JSTOR Daily

Mapping the Literary to the Literal Image: A Comparison Between Sub-metaphors of the Heavenly Warrior Metaphor in the Hebrew Psalter and Iconographic Elements of the Storm- and ...

In a paper read at the International SBL meetings in Vienna, 2007, I discussed the relationship between the literary and literal image. Taking metaphor as the most prominent trope of biblical imagery, ...