Baal was mentioned in several manuscripts called the El Amarna letters, in which client states addressed the king of Egypt as “my baal. ...

During a reading of the Scriptures, the lector read from 2 Kings 23, where the noble King Josiah did away with the priests of Baal and the sacred poles of the Asherah.

The discussion leading up to it does not exactly begin on a most auspicious note. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 102) states that Menashe (the king referred to in Melachim II Chapter 21 and in Divrei ...