Interesting, but according to scholars Yahweh, while indeed a god on a cloud-covered mountain top of storms and thunderbolts was a southern desert deity who moved north from the borderlands (Sinai). The Old Testament is full of the zeal of his cult as his priests insisted on his sole rule and worship, the reason why so many of the kings and the northern kingdom are condemned as disloyal to him. Older folk traditions and histories and origin myths of the Middle East and of the Jewish tribal past and its two kingdoms were taken up and assembled by the returning Jewish elite from exile in Babylon to fashion a national propaganda. There is, of course, no archaeological trace of some of the most popular Biblical traditions, such as of Solomon - plausibly an appropriation of the memory and splendor of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III. In contrast, there is material evidence of an early David ("House of David"), a source of enduring national myth as often with many founders of royal houses from humble origins as raiders and mercenaries.
The depopulation of Ugarit at the end of the Bronze Age may have been caused by a plague that spread around the Mediterranean at that time. The Iliad mentions a plague from Apollo of the rats.
As for the two monsters Yamm sent to fight Baal, perhaps they were two tsunamis resulting from a volcanic eruption. There was also a 100 year drought around 2000 BCE that may have become part of the Ba'al legend.
This a later evolution of the Israelite religion. Before the Hebrew settled around Ugarit they came from the Mari region where Asherah and Hadad ruled.
Interesting, but according to scholars Yahweh, while indeed a god on a cloud-covered mountain top of storms and thunderbolts was a southern desert deity who moved north from the borderlands (Sinai). The Old Testament is full of the zeal of his cult as his priests insisted on his sole rule and worship, the reason why so many of the kings and the northern kingdom are condemned as disloyal to him. Older folk traditions and histories and origin myths of the Middle East and of the Jewish tribal past and its two kingdoms were taken up and assembled by the returning Jewish elite from exile in Babylon to fashion a national propaganda. There is, of course, no archaeological trace of some of the most popular Biblical traditions, such as of Solomon - plausibly an appropriation of the memory and splendor of the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III. In contrast, there is material evidence of an early David ("House of David"), a source of enduring national myth as often with many founders of royal houses from humble origins as raiders and mercenaries.
The depopulation of Ugarit at the end of the Bronze Age may have been caused by a plague that spread around the Mediterranean at that time. The Iliad mentions a plague from Apollo of the rats.
As for the two monsters Yamm sent to fight Baal, perhaps they were two tsunamis resulting from a volcanic eruption. There was also a 100 year drought around 2000 BCE that may have become part of the Ba'al legend.
The triumph of El/Baal over the waters is a classic esrth diver myth.
excellent
This a later evolution of the Israelite religion. Before the Hebrew settled around Ugarit they came from the Mari region where Asherah and Hadad ruled.
https://woketabletalk.substack.com/p/jesus-was-an-undocumented-migrant?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=3b6jnb