“there was a great wind, so strong that it was splitting mountains and breaking rocks in pieces before the Lord, but the Lord ...

Readers of the Bible are probably familiar with the god, Baal, who was one of the chief rivals of the Hebrew God. The term “baal” appears over 90 times in the Hebrew Bible. Perhaps the best ...

As a Canaanite god, Baal’s story comes to us in a set of tablets discovered in 1928 at Ras Shamra, north of Syria on the Mediterranean coast.

The Baal Teshuva Movement is alive Intermarriage in the USA has complicated the teshuva process, but in Israel it is going strong. And let us not forget Chabad.

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious. By Ross Douthat. Zondervan; 240 pages; $29.99 and £20. H ave you ever wondered about the problem of evil?The question of why, if God is all-good and all ...

When Elijah humiliated the prophets of Baal, the crowd of onlookers fell to the ground and cried out, “The Lord—he is God!” (1 Kings 18:39).

Baal, it seems, died out not because—as the Bible has it—he was a false god but because his franchise failed. Popular works have tackled the idea of religions as businesses before.