The ancient Roman historians tell us that Baal was the supreme god of their enemy, Carthage, and that child sacrifice was common in their worship. As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in ...

Right. Particularly the Hebrews. They really wipe out the goddess. The term for the goddess, the Canaanite goddess, that's used in the Old Testament, is "the abomination." And so many of the ...

Readers might be tempted to skip the first 17 verses of Matthew’s Gospel. After all, it’s just a genealogy of who “begat” whom, a list of names we don’t recognize and can’t pronounce. We’re tempted to ...

It is through this sacrifice that we endure.” The aggressor, by contrast, has become a modern Moloch, the bloodthirsty Canaanite god against whom the prophets of ancient Israel railed.

I am anticipating a deluge of angry letters from people listing off important persons named Elimelech that I’ve ignored, but the truth remains that despite the continued use of that personal name si ...

In Orthodox Christian iconography, a peculiar icon of Saint Christopher can be seen, depicting him with a dog's head.

People viewed this as God condemning the union and making any ... Jesse planned to sleep with his wife’s Canaanite maidservant but she told Nitzevet of her husband’s plan.