#62 The Return to Shechem: In search of Baal Zebul

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01/25/25 • 69 min

The History Of Religions and their Gods!

In this episode, I take you to the cultic site of Biblical Shechem where Abraham made his covenant with his Lord, Baal Berith. We will make a few discoveries that might just explain the condemnation of foreign gods, the Asherah and Baal.

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#61 The Mysteries of the Soleb Temple and The God of Israel

Welcome to the first episode of season 8, The Mysteries of the Soleb Temple and the God of Israel. In this episode we do a deep dive at an ancient archeological site in the Sudan desert called the Soleb Temple. There is an inscription on a column there that just might link a nomadic tribe called the Shasu to the Israelite God, Yahweh. Interesting though that this inscription in non-theophoric and possibly a common name of a king or a leader. Let's find out!

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#63 The Deir Alla Inscriptions

In this episode we hop into our "time dune buggies" and head back to Jordan from Shechem near the Soleb Temple where we find the Deir Alla Inscriptions. Why is this site so important? Because it gives us a different meaning for "Shaddai" or "Shadday" as found in the Bible being paired with El (El Shaddai). In this 7th century inscription Shadday is a goddess who oversees the Sadayin Deities who were in charge of curses. So hop on and lets go!