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In 1929 a farmer in French-occupied Syria caught his plow on a rock and accidentally uncovered Ugarit, a lost city whose clay tablets have been quietly reshaping Hebrew Bible scholarship ever since. This week we dig into the Baal Cycle: the elderly patriarch El, the storm god Baal, the sea god Yam, and a goddess named Anat who is genuinely terrifying. If you've ever wondered where the divine council, the rider of the clouds, and the waters above and below actually come from, this one's for you. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:04 What's the Baal Cycle? 2:48 A Farmer Finds Ugarit 3:39 Cracking an Unknown Alphabet 5:34 Why Ugaritic Matters 6:56 El, Head of the Pantheon 8:17 When El and Yahweh Merged 8:52 Yahweh as Storm God 9:33 Athirat, Anat, and Kin 10:46 Yam, Nahar, and Mot 11:43 Kothar-wa-Hasis, Divine Craftsman 12:57 Yam Claims the Throne 14:04 Rivers Versus Rainfall 16:20 The Two Magic Maces 20:07 Marduk, Tiamat, and Genesis 21:31 Baal Needs a Palace 23:01 Anat-Yahu at Elephantine 23:38 The Windows of Heaven 24:37 Death Sends an Invitation 26:20 Anat Destroys Death 27:35 Dying and Returning Gods 29:11 Psalm 82 and Mortal Gods 31:16 Ugaritic in Bible Studies 32:06 The Late Bronze Age Collapse 33:13 Wrap-Up _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Ugarit #BaalCycle #HebrewBible