Baal Hamon

Baal or Ba'al ( Hebrew : , , B al, B al, B al, which means - Bel in Akkadian and Ba ALT (Phoenician) or (Ba ^a lah, in Hebrew) in the feminine - is a god Phoenician who under the dynasties of Rameses , is treated in Egyptian mythology with Seth and Montu.

Summary 1 Origins 2 Worship 3 Empire Greco-Roman 4 Notes and references 5 Annexes 5.1 Bibliography 5.2 Article Related 5.3 External Links

Origins

The term Baal is not religious in origin: this call spread in many Semitic languages indicates a being worthy, Lord, master, owner, or sometimes the husband. This title is particularly applied to a god of thunder and fertility Middle East, named Melqart in Phoenicia or Hadad in Syria ^Worship

The biblical texts bear witness to the struggle which takes place from the ^ninth century against the Baal worship of deities embodied competing Yhwh, god of Israel being "monothisation"

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He is described as the cult of the golden calf in the Book of Hosea . In the Bible it has no clear identity, but gathers all the deities that might distract God's people astray. Therefore in the book of Judges each story begins: "The people of God turned to the Lord and worshiped Baal and the Astartes. "Similarly Astartes gathers deities referring to Ishtar , the goddess of Babylon. Paradoxically, some biblical passages attributed to God baaliques specific: like Baal, God lives on a mountain, it brings rain, fertility and crops, or is described as "Rider of the clouds" .

According to the Bible, prostitutes, male and female, sexually used in the high places and some biblical passage relate among Chaldean ritual sacrifice of children to get favors from the deity , in the book of Jeremiah (19:5) "They built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal: What I had not ordered or prescribed, this does not come to me thinking '. Nevertheless, the links between such sacrifices and worship of Baal are not numerous in the biblical texts and extra-biblical sources are not conclusive on such links .

Greco-Roman Empire

Baal had a major temple at Emesa (now Homs) in Syria , whose high priesthood belonged to the family Bassianides. In 218, the high priest became emperor of Rome under the name of Elagabalus , a kinship with the Severe by women. Heliogabalus imposed for a time his cult to the Romans. They dethroned the result of his excesses, particularly religious.

References

Notes

Bibliography

• Dany Nocquet, the "black book of Baal" a polemic against the god Baal in the Bible, ed. Labor et Fides, 2004, excerpts online

Related articles

• Judaism
• Astarte
• El Adad Yhwh
• Baal Hammon Baal Shamima Beelzebub Bel Melqart Moloch Belphegor
• Baal Cycle ( Ugarit )
• Kush
• Ba'al in the television series Stargate SG-1

External Links

• (In) Baal, W. Robertson Smith and George F. Moore - [pdf] http://www.cwru.edu/univlib/preserve/Etana/encyl_biblica_a-d/baal-baca.pdf.
• (En) American Heritage Dictionary, Bartleby - http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/S41.html.
• (In) The iconography of Baal, University of Zurich - [pdf] http://www.religionswissenschaft.unizh.ch/idd/prepublications/e_idd_baal.pdf.