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THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: THE MAKING OF A RELIGION -- ILLUSTRATED SCREENPLAY & SCREENCAP GALLERY |
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And I asked where this bull was found? It's very nice.
It's about 18 centimetres long, beautiful bull. They said, a member of the kibbutz, he was a solder, he was in training in the north in Samaria hills, he found it on a hill.
The bull is the symbol, of course, of BAAL, THE MAIN GOD OF CANAAN, and also of EL, THE CHIEF GOD OF THE CANAANITE PANTHEON. But also is related to the Israelite [?] god. Especially in the northern part of the country, the bull, you know, the golden calfs, THEY ARE THE MAJOR SYMBOLS OF THE TEMPLES OF DAN AND BETH-EL during the Israelite period. [?] There is a lot of continuity between Canaanite and Israelite religion.
[Narrator] What do we know about Yahweh? CERTAIN BIBLICAL VERSES refer to a god from the southern desert,
worshipped with MORE OR LESS THE SAME FERVOUR in the north and the south.
How well did Yahweh -- the god of the south -- and El, or Baal -- gods from the north -- co-exist?
QUITE WELL if we go by the evidence of remains found throughout the land.
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