Contributing Writer Cynthia Astle has written an article about a possible connection between Canaanite religion and the Biblical Abraham, in Ugaritic Texts May Have Influenced Abraham - A Look at How the Religion of Ugaritic Texts May Have Influenced Abraham.
Clay tablets found in 1929 in Syria contain information about the Canaanite culture that the patriarch Abraham would have encountered. Among the deities listed is El or Elohim, a name given to the Canaanite supreme god that is also used in the original Hebrew texts that tell Abraham's story in the Bible.
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