Had we not been afraid of being too ambitious, we would have given our third book on the Phoenician trilogy a second subtitle: Introduction to a Philosophy of History. For such is the ultimate purpose of this essay. When we examined the myths of the Phoenix, El, Baal, Adonai and Moloch, fundamental conceptions of historical Lebanon, we were particularly struck by their antagonism and complementarity, followed by an obvious anti-historical dynamic. A very feminine attitude, as well as a desire to reject the history of a "race slaughtered" by the greatest misfortunes ever borne by a nation. Our...

Throughout his career as a researcher in Phoenician Mythology, Dr. Karam has never ceased to give all his work a genuine universality. In this thorough analysis of the Adonis myth and its cultural repercussions in the East and West, the author has demonstrated a true mastery of both high-level academic research and the technique of decoding Phoenician mythology. In this very learned work devoted to the myth of Adonai through the centuries, our author has demonstrated an unequalled erudition, and has been able to open a founding page for a new exegesis and biblical hermeneutics for the...