Word: baal
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...midst of the new bishop's consecration ceremony, suggested that "divine intervention" might have caused the fire. Others took refuge in the Bible, citing the prophet Elijah, who brought down a fire from heaven, which destroyed an altar he had built in the presence of the prophets of Baal. A less apocalyptic note was sounded by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. The real miracle, he implied, was that the damage was confined to so small an area...
...Helen returned after putting her own children to bed, she discovered that a witch doctor had ripped off the bandages and was rubbing hot pepper on the wounds, invoking Christian saints and Mayan deities, all the while drinking rum. In a scene reminiscent of Elijah confronting the prophets of Baal, Helen told the parents that they must choose between her treatment and the witch doctor...
...records. But about 150 are literary, including myths, epic narratives, hymns to deities, rituals, collections of proverbs, and incantations against everything from demons to scorpions. Some of Ebla's 500 deities had the same names as the ones which were later to tempt the Israelites in Canaan, notably Baal...
...children banish Bible stories as unedifying and untrue. Youths are taught that Abraham did not enter the Promised Land be cause of a covenant with God but because of a drought in Ur. Instead of the bar mitzvah (son of the commandments) rite, the polydox now use the baal mitzvah (master of the commandments), signifying that a youngster is able to decide for himself what...
...ability to constructively criticize policies they would oppose in other situations. His writing on that subject is explosive. He asserted in a bulletin published by his group in 1972 that "the majority of fellow Jews... worship the material State of Israel like our ancestors worshipped the Golden Calf and Baal...