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Thousands of clay tablets from the city of Ugarit provide our most detailed window into the Canaanite religion that the Israelites encountered.
The coastal city of Ugarit produces a treasure trove of texts written in a cuneiform alphabet closely related to Hebrew. The tablets describe the Canaanite pantheon — El, Baal, Asherah, Mot — and their mythological stories of cosmic battles and fertility cycles. These texts are invaluable for understanding the religious context of the Hebrew Bible, including why the prophets so fiercely opposed Baal worship.
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