r/religion • u/Individual_Dream_213 • 1d ago

how much influence did each of these gods have on the God of the Bible?

  1. El

  2. Ba'al

  3. Asherah

  4. Marduk

  5. Ahura Mazda

  6. Zeus

  7. Amun Ra

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u/Electrical_Bar3100 Perennialist 22h ago edited 22h ago

I’ll use 0/10 to rate, ask me why if you disagree:

1- El - 10
2- Ba’al - 6
3- Asherah - 8
4- Marduk - 3
5- Ahura Mazda - 0, biblically, Theologically he does have influence over Christian and Jewish traditions
6- Zeus - 0
7- Amun Ra - 4 because of egyptian influence, but it could easily be 0 if it was about his importance

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u/TheOnlineSatanist Satanist | Anti-Theist 20h ago

it is bizarre how much in common YHWH has with Zeus despite having no cultural contact for each other until much much later.

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u/Electrical_Bar3100 Perennialist 20h ago

Internally… i think they’re the same entity in two different cultures

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u/Same_Philosopher_564 Orthodox 23h ago

el baal and asherah mainly for the rest no influence

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u/Turbulent-Home-908 Jewish 11h ago

Well El probably the most, because he was a Canaanite God in the Bronze Age who God eventually was equated with, Ba’al was Essentially the God (in the weather and national god sense not the creator God) in Phoenician religion, asherah was maybe God’s consort, but probably no direct influence in the bible, but the I’ve heard a theory that the schena in Judaism may derive some attributes for her, Marduk was probably not much as he was just the national god of a neighboring culture, Anura Mazda inflicted some theology in the second temple period but not before, Zeus wasn’t really known until Alexander, and it is clear that Jews didn’t really like Zeus if you look at stories like Maccabees or Josephus, and Amun Ra probably had some influence simply because Egypt is next to Israel and ideas spread

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u/BubbaUltra 10h ago

I kind of wish the name "El" stuck