When did worship of Baal cease to exist?
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Very likely the edict of Thessalonica in 380 AD was the very end of Baal as a religion.
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Baal means "master", "owner", "power" in Semitic languages and was a generic name for an idol. As long as there is idolatry among Semitic peoples, they would refer to idols as Baal X where X specifies the idol (a location or a heavenly body or ...)
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The name "Hannibal" (the Carthaginian general) means "grace of Baal". Hannah (the Hebrew name, Phoenician is also a Semitic language) means 'grace' in the sense of 'gift from God'.
As the Carthaginians descended from Phoenicians, one may consider their religion at least as direct development of Phoenician Baal worship, even if specific details or names may have changed. They still had human and child sacrifice.
Therefore I think your question is: when did the Carthaginian religion die? I do not know, but certainly it was alive up to the end of the Punic Wars.
Another take at your question: The bible gives a few different names to the devil or various pagan idols. If the bible calls the devil, or any idol 'X', later jews or christians may use the name 'X' to refer to the devil, black magic, or any evil mysterious stuff, even the contexts don't exactly match.
So the people in the Luke passage may be using Beelzebub as one among various possible words for 'devil', not specifically referring to remnants of older Phoenician religions.
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