[Lurking Libertarian]

This is incorrect. The names of God as revealed in the bible never relate to the Baal gods

I never said they did. I was making only a linguistic point, that the Hebrew elohim and the Arabic allah share the same Semitic root (aleph-lamed-heh).

When the Hebrew Bible is translated into Arabic (by Jews or Christians in Arabic-speaking countries), the word "Elohim" is translated as "Allah."

[D Edmund Joaquin]

Allah is more closely linked to the Chaldean (Babylonian) elahh