Ancient text
Baal Cycle
A cycle of Ugaritic tablets concerning the storm deity Baal, his conflict with Sea and with Death, and the building of his house.
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Document
Source- Culture
- Ugaritic
- Language
- Ugaritic
- Approximate date
- Late Bronze Age, Ugarit
- Corpus
- ane
- Review status
- unreviewed
Relationships to biblical passages
Interpretationshared motifSimilarity only
Ugaritic literature and the Hebrew poetic corpus share a stock of imagery for divine kingship, storm and provision. The relationship recorded here is a shared regional poetic repertoire, not a claim that any biblical passage draws on this cycle.
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