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Ugarit—Ancient City in the Shadow of BaalThe Watchtower—2003 | July 15
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b While opinions vary, some identify the temple of Dagan as the temple of El. Roland de Vaux, a French scholar and professor at the Jerusalem School of Biblical Studies, suggested that Dagan—the Dagon of Judges 16:23 and 1 Samuel 5:1-5—is the proper name of El. The Encyclopedia of Religion comments that possibly “Dagan was in some sense identified with or assimilated to [El].”
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Ugarit—Ancient City in the Shadow of BaalThe Watchtower—2003 | July 15
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The supreme deity was El, called the father of the gods and of man.
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Ugarit—Ancient City in the Shadow of BaalThe Watchtower—2003 | July 15
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El is depicted as a wise, white-bearded old man remote from humanity.
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Ugarit—Ancient City in the Shadow of BaalThe Watchtower—2003 | July 15
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Baal massacres the sons of El’s wife, Athirat (Asherah), and regains the throne.
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