The city and the surrounding plain were dominated by the temples of Baal and Dagan.
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The Encyclopedia of Religion comments that possibly“ Dagan was in some sense identified with or assimilated to[ El].”.
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In the Ras Shamra texts,
Baal is called the son of Dagan, but the meaning of“ son” here is uncertain.
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Roland de Vaux, a French scholar and professor at the Jerusalem School of Biblical Studies,
suggested that Dagan - the Dagon of Judges 16: 23
and 1 Samuel 5: 1- 5- is the proper name of El.