The Importance of Adonai

In the Bible, Adonai and Baal are two different deities trying to fill the same role. There's a discussion going on right now within the scholarship about what this tells us about the origins of one,. the divine name, and to the deity Adonai. And another indication that Adonai was probably a late importation from outside of Israel is that even before we have the references to the deityAdonai in these inscriptions from the 9th century.