The Iconography of the Canaanite Gods Reshef and Ba'al: Late Bronze and Iron Age I Periods (c 1500-1000 BCE (Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis, 140)

In the Bible it is said that the ancient people of Israel followed "foreign gods" such as Baal and Astarte. These were the ancient gods of the Canaanites. Whatever the real origin of the people of Israel might have been, early Israelite (c 1200-1000 BCE) religion did not develop independently from Canaanite culture and religion. What happened in Israel occurred all over Western Asia and Egypt, especially in the LBA (c 1550-1150 BCE) and Iron age I (c 1150-1000BCE) when religious traditions were introduced and foreign gods spread. This book is a study of the iconography of 2 Canaanite gods, Reshef and Baal. It has more than 52 plates, 63 Figures, and an extensive bibliography.