Playing Baal in Ancient Israel: Facts and Fictions about the “gods”

Was “Baal” a real “elohim”? Is he still? What are we to do with stories of the ba’alim and other so-called deities from the Bible and Ancient Near East? Doesn’t Canaanite and other extra-biblical literature influence how we read the Bible? This presentation will seek to provide disciples of Yeshua the Biblically sound framework for addressing these questions.

– The Hebrew term בעל (baal)
– The Torah and Ancient Canaanite Poetry and Myth
– Baal and the Hebrew Prophets
– Portrayals of Baal in the Second Temple Period and Beyond
– Paul’s view of Idolatry and the “gods” and “demons” of Nations

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Rob Vanhoff

Rob teaches courses on 2nd Temple Period, Rabbinic Literature, Judaism, Koine Greek, and Aramaic. He has delivered papers at conferences for both Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. Rob holds two degrees from the University of Washington: MA, Comparative Religion (2005) and BA, Near Eastern Languages & Civilization, with a minor in Music (2003).
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