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The Ugaritic Baal Cycle
Volume II. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4
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Mark Smith
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English
Published/Copyright:
2009
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This second volume of the commentary on the Baal Cycle, the most important Canaanite religious text from Ugarit, in Syria, analyzes KTU/CAT 1.3 and 1.4, the tablets that contain the long episode about how Baal secured permission from El to build his royal palace and how the palace was built. It includes a new edition of the tablets, supplemented by a DVD-ROM with 92 images and superimposible drawings, a comprehensive introduction, new translation and vocalized text, and detailed commentary. The authors develop an interpretation of the episode which places it into the larger context of the Baal Cycle as a whole.
Author / Editor information
Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. Yale, 1985, is Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University. He is the author of ten books on the religion of ancient Israel and Ugarit, most recently God in Translation: Deities in Cross-Cultural Discourse in the Biblical World, as well as many articles on the literature, religion and grammar in Ugaritic, the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Wayne T. Pitard, Ph.D. Harvard, 1982, is Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Department of Religion and Director of the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Ancient Damascus and numerous articles on Ugaritic texts and epigraphy, as well as Syro-Palestinian history.
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'For all these endeavours, the book under review will be an indispensable tool. Coming generations of Ugaritologists and biblical scholars are deeply indebted to the authors'. Leiden University, July 2012 Holger GZELLA
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Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 28, 2009
eBook ISBN:
9789047442325
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Main content:
864
eBook ISBN:
9789047442325
Keywords for this book
Ugaritic; Hebrew; Bible; Near; Eastern; religions; west; Semitic; poetry; Canaanite; gods; goddesses; protocol; etiquette; philology
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in Canaanite and biblical studies, ancient literary works, Semitic philology and linguistics, Near Eastern religions.
