palace and the acclamation of his kingship. The epic also depicts Mot (death) attacking Baal, crushing him like a lamb in his mouth and swallowing him up. In biblical Hebrew, the word for “sea” is yam; in some contexts, as in the quote from Psalm 74 above, it may be that a reference to Yam is intended by use of “sea.”10 Indeed, when the Bible story closes with the declaration that in the new earth “there was no more sea” (Revelation 21:1), the point is theological, poetically referring to the absence