YHWH’s Appropriation of Baal’s Storm Deity Profile

[W_W-fy]

Would be excellent if we could get some links to the references etc in the description or in a QR code perhaps?

[TCM]

If you actually examine why the critical scholars think this way, it’s because of an anti-supernatural bias

[Corvidknows]

This reminds me of something I heard a while back, that the name the Israelites used for God was borrowed from the Canaanites' god, El. Any comment on that?

[dillondavis]

Fun fact: the statement data over dogma is in fact dogma.

[seankennedy]

So what's your point? That you AGREE with "most critical scholars" on this issue? One presumes so.

Familiarize yourself with the argument of Michael Heiser, who claims these textual borrowings from the Baal cycle are very likely a form of ancient Israelite apologetics.

It's a reasonable argument.

[douglasgrant]

Dan you are being very careful not to use the tetragrammaton..

[reyis_here]

Nope sorry but Baal it’s just another name for a Hadad… it has nothing to do with Yahweh

[leslieviljoen]

Why replace YHWH with Adonai in these videos?

[fordan_gamsy]

Yhwh also steals Baal's title of "cloudrider".

[blanktrigger]

This is better understood as polemics, not as attribute or role absorption. In fact, YHWH's "cloud" is his Glory, the OT states, while Baal's is actual cloud. The OT repeatedly does this to shift the imagery away from idolatry and towards the Truth.

[cmar]

Midbar Kadesh, isn’t that south of Israel?

[trindal]

No i dont think so. Ba'al is not a proper name at all, rather an honorific added as a prefix to the name of a higher status person. Something like lord and master. Maybe it would be good of you to clarify what period of time you are talking about?

[ronjones]

So, just an entertaining hypothesis. Often sayings are acquired from the loser and remanufactured to benefit the winner. Perhaps this is the early Jews telling the Canaanites "Na Na Na-Na-Na-Na!"

[angieholmes]

There is only one true other false gods are simply the fallen angels posing as dieties.