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Erich Lessing
The Canaanite god El is approached by a priest in this late-second-millennium B.C.E. stela from Ugarit, in modern Syria. The Israelites borrowed the name of the Canaanite high deity for their own God.
Erich Lessing
The Canaanite god El is approached by a priest in this late-second-millennium B.C.E. stela from Ugarit, in modern Syria. The Israelites borrowed the name of the Canaanite high deity for their own God.