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After watching Bible's Burried Secrets by Dr Francesca Stavrakopoulou, I got thinking about Ba'al-based religion.
I've been looking all over, and I can't seem to find when the Phoenician/Canaanite religions declined into oblivion. Greek and Roman writers comment on them, and it probably still existed in some form during Rome's Imperial period.
I guess it probably fell out of favour during the Christianisation of the empire, but I haven't been able to find anything yet to confirm this...
Can anyone (like Leo, for instance ) help me out here?
Basically, I was thinking about making a scenario with a Ba'al-based dominant religion, but with the more icky stuff removed, with a formalised canon and a priestly hierarchy; a bit like Judaism/Christianity really...