Ugaritic Cunieform                                                                                  In 1928 a Syrian farmer accidently unearthed ancient tombs on the Mediterranean coast. This led to one of the greatest archaeological finds of the century: cuneiform records of the Kingdom of Ugarit.
     The tablets were written in a form of Semitic language, and served to greatly enhance, and sometimes even correct, our understanding of Biblical Hebrew. Many words in the Bible that were once only guessed at have been clarified by the Ugaritic finds.
     We also discovered from these finds that portions of the Bible was derived from Ugaritic religion.  Hymns and myths from a Ugaritic fertility cult in which Baal and Asherah were the primary deities were found at the site.   We discover that the god Yahweh takes on many of the aspects of the god Baal, and that while Asherah is eventually edited out of the bible, some traces of her remain in various Biblical passages. Some of these traces are virtually unchanged in the modern Bible from their Ugarit forms
     Correlating this data with the Bible we can see that Yahweh incorporates the deity Baal, andAsherah was reduced to the role of Yahweh's nameless "wisdom" in Proverbs.