Plaster Wall Inscription 4.2: El, Baal, and YHWH

Plaster Wall Inscription 4.2: El, Baal, and YHWH 2016-03-16T11:44:33-05:00

I have put up a draft of my study on plaster wall inscription 4.2 from Kuntillet ‘Ajrud, which offers a revised transcription, translation, and commentary. If you are less interested in epigraphic analysis, then you are welcome to skip to the exegetical commentary further below. There I present the argument that in the context of Israel-Judah the name Baal referred to El, the head of the Israelite pantheon.


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