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Ugarit
Ugarit The ancient name of the modern
Ras Shamra on the Mediterranean coast in
Syria. Excavations started in 1929 by French archaeologists revealed large deposits of
cuneiform texts in Akkadian and in Ugaritic and give much information about the social organization and
religion of the city. The importance of these texts for OT studies is the light they shine on the cultures surrounding Israel and the legends of their deities, such as
Baal, who is a storm-god. (Ps. 29 portrays Yahweh in very similar terms.) Their language can also sometimes shed light on obscure Hebrew passages in the Bible.
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Ugarit und die Bibel.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...and cosmopolitan Bronze Age port city of Ugarit and one of its suburbs on the coast of...core of the book treats the literature of Ugarit and Canaan, writing systems, misunderstood...Yahwistic monotheism; the Assembly of Gods at Ugarit and in the Bible; Gods, Goddesses...
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Il Libro dei morti dell'antica Ugarit: Le piu antiche testimonianze sull'Aldila prima della Bibbia.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Il Libro dei morti dell'antica Ugarit: Le piu antiche testimonianze sull...nor anything similar, from ancient Ugarit. With his title Massimo Baldacci assumes...series published by Piemme dedicated to Ugarit. (The first, by the same author, is...
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From Ugarit to the world
Newspaper article from: The Arab American News; 5/10/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Jandali would one day find himself in Ugarit, Syria, creating new music for the world out of the world's oldest. Ugarit is a Bronze Age city the ruins of which...the Mediterranean coast of Syria. Ugarit flourished from about 1450 to 1200...
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Textes akkadiens d'Ugarit: Textes provenant des vingt-cinq premieres campagnes.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 10/1/2003; 700+ words
; Textes akkadiens d'Ugarit: Textes provenant des vingt-cinq premieres...250 Akkadian documents from the city of Ugarit expertly translated into French by Sylvie...documents related to the internal affairs of Ugarit, the author offers us a typology of...
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The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra. By MARGUERITE YON...French Mission de Ras Shamra. The City of Ugarit is divided into three chapters: "Geography...Schloen's complementary examination of Ugarit's urban makeup (The House of the Father...
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Ugarit and the Bible: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Ugarit and the Bible, Manchester, September 1992.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Adrian H. W. Curtis (pp. 1-10); "Ugarit and the Bible: Do They Presuppose the...of all sorts as means of learning about Ugarit rather than about Jerusalem; only when...that which pertains to the kingdom of Ugarit up to its destruction at the end of the...
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Ritual and Cult at Ugarit
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; DENNIS PARDEE, Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (SBLWAW 10; Atlanta: Society of Biblical...cuneiform texts from the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Ras Shamra) and the nearby site...Compared to the mythological poetry from Ugarit, the mundane religious practices of the...
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Die Keilalphabete: Die phonizischkanaanaischen und altarabischen Alphabete in Ugarit.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 1/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...held with the authors at the hospitable Ugarit-Forschung, an institute devoted to...dealing with the cuneiform alphabet of Ugarit, is devoted mostly to evaluation of previous...materials relating to the long alphabet of Ugarit are conveniently presented in two tables...
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The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; MARGUERITE YON, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras Shamra (Winona Lake...the discovery of the ancient city of Ugarit and the history of excavations. In...geography and history of the kingdom of Ugarit from the eighth millennium b.c...
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Ritual and Cult at Ugarit.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission; 4/1/2004; 493 words
; Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. By Dennis Pardee (Society of Biblical...relating to ritual at the ancient site of Ugarit (14th-13th centuries B.C.E...and the pig was not sacrificed also at Ugarit. Perhaps the biggest difference between...
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Ugarit
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ugarit , ancient city, capital of the Ugarit kingdom, W Syria, on the Mediterranean coast N of modern Latakia...established the identity of the mound as the site of ancient Ugarit. The site was been particularly rich in finds, which have...
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Baal
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...attested in the Ebla texts (first half of 2d millennium BC). By the time of the Ugarit tablets (14th cent. BC), Baal had become the ruler of the universe. The Ugarit tablets make him chief of the Canaanite pantheon. He is the source of life and...
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El
Book article from: Myths and Legends of the World
...believed to live on Mount Saphon, near the ancient Syrian city of Ugarit. A highly respected deity, El was all-knowing and all...others and involved El indirectly. For example, one story from Ugarit concerned Aqhat, son of King Danel. In return for the king...
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Ras Shamra
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
Ras Shamra The modern name for the ancient Ugarit on the coast of Syria and the scene of excavations since 1928...especially interesting. Those with an alphabetic script are in Ugarit, a language akin to Hebrew, and include literary myths and...
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Sidon
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
...was extracted. Sidon is mentioned in ancient writings, including the Egyptian Amarna letters, inscriptions in the city of Ugarit, and in Homer's Iliad. The city's golden age was during the seventeenth century c.e., under Amir Fakhr al-Din II...
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