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Although names are similar, the religious meaning was quite different. Offerings were made to Baal and a host of other gods at Ugarit, while the Israelite religion prescribed the worship of Yahweh alone. While Biblical offerings were regularized in the Mosaic law, particularly the Book of Leviticus, Biblical sacrifices go back to the earliest times. Cain, Abel (Gen 4:3, 4), Noah (8:20) and the line of Abraham (15:9, 10) all offered sacrifices prior to the giving of the law. Some elements of the Mosaic law seem to be directed against practices documented in the Ugaritic texts. The epic entitled “The Birth of the Beautiful and Gracious Gods” describes a ritual of seething a kid in its mother’s milk in order to procure rain for the parched soil of Canaan. The rite was specifically forbidden in Israelite law (Exod 23:19; 34:26), a fact which gives rise to the Jewish dietary insistence that milk products and meat products must not be mixed. The prophetic leaders of Israel were concerned that the people resist the temptation to adopt Canaanite religious practices. Since the Ugaritic texts were written in a language closely related to Heb., their study provides a wealth of information for the elucidation of the Biblical text. Similar fig. expressions are used in the Bible and Ugarit. Baal, like Yahweh (cf. Ps 68:4, 33) rides the clouds. Thunder is his voice (cf. Ps 29:3). When the writer of the Biblical flood story wanted to describe the torrents of rain which fell on earth, he used the poetic expression, “The windows of the heavens were opened” (Gen 7:11). In Ugarit we read that Baal opened a window of his celestial house, uttered his voice, and thus sent a thunderstorm to the world (Baal II. vi. 25-35).
The mythological figure Lotan (Biblical Leviathan) appears in the Ugaritic texts as an enemy of Baal. The Baal Epic says, “When thou smotest Lotan, the slippery (serpent) (and) madest an end of the wriggling serpent, the tyrant (with seven heads)...” (Baal I. i. 28-30). The words are reminiscent of Isaiah 27“In that day the Lord (i.e. Yahweh) with his hand and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea.” Biblical Leviathan, like Ugaritic Lotan, had a multiplicity of heads: “Thou didst crush the heads of Leviathan” (Ps 74:14). Biblical Leviathan, unlike his Ugaritic counterpart, was not a god. Leviathan was a rebellious creature of Yahweh. He represents the forces of evil that come under divine judgment. The high ethical monotheism of the Israelites is not paralleled at Ugarit. Both Israel and Ugarit had a common linguistic and cultural heritage, but Israel alone contributed her high religion to the rest of mankind.
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