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Canaanite Religion
Ugaritic religion; the religion Israel came out of
c.3000 – c.500 BCE · Ancient Near East · Extinct · Levant — Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Jordan
II. THE FIRST CIVILISATIONS — c.3000 – 1000 BCE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1400–1200 BCE Height of Ugarit; the tablets are written in the world's first alphabetic cuneiform.
- c.1200 BCE Bronze Age collapse; Ugarit destroyed and never reoccupied, which is why the archive survived.
- c.1000–586 BCE Israelite religion emerges within this world, sharing its language and gradually defining itself against it.
- c.850 BCE Elijah versus the prophets of Baal on Carmel — the biblical set-piece of the conflict.
- 1928–1929 CE A farmer ploughs into a tomb at Ras Shamra in 1928; Claude Schaeffer's excavation begins in 1929. Scholars discover that El, the name of God in the Hebrew Bible, was a Canaanite deity, and that Yahweh's imagery as cloud-rider was Baal's first.
### Sources
Verified 2026-09-13, against these.
- Ugarit
- Center for Online Judaic Studies, Kuntillet Ajrud inscriptions, 8th century BCE
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