Showing posts with label Ugarit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ugarit. Show all posts
2022/06/17

Ugaritic Yom Kippur

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Among religious texts from Ugarit is also a beautiful and deeply meaningful liturgy of communal penitence. It is a Canaanite, pagan, Late br...
2021/12/30

God and her loom

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The Bible is full of surprising images and metaphors when it speaks about God. Take for instance Jesus’ parable of the lost coin. In it God ...
2021/11/04

Mythic Grains

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Ugaritic tablet KTU 1.6 with text of part of Baal Cycle. Among the Ugaritic Mythological texts, there is this interesting part of Baal myth ...
2021/08/13

Gospel in Cuneiform

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A recreation of KTU 1.24.7 Among the Ugaritic cuneiform tablets dated to 12 th century BCE is also a myth about the wedding of Yarich (moon...
2021/07/08

Biblical Monsters

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The Hebrew Bible is surprisingly aflush with mythical primordial monsters which it shares with other Near and Middle East religions and cult...
2021/06/17

Biblical Chaoskampf

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Can you walk on water? I would doubt it! Such skill is reserved only for deities! Prophet Isaiah (43:16) speaks about YHWH       who makes a...
2021/06/03

Beelzebub or Beelzebul

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In the New Testament Jesus was accused of conspiring with Beelzebul, the ruler of the demons, which was how he was able to heal and expel de...
2021/02/04

Not a Lunacy

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The biblical message is quite unequivocal and resolute:         When you look up to the heavens and see        the sun, the moon, and the st...
2020/10/09

Compassion and healing

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Crown prince Yaṣib came to his father, he lifted up his voice and cried:     Listen, I besiege you, O noble Keret,     listen, and let your ...