The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Author: Mark S. Smith

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9789004099951

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This volume provides a lengthy introduction and detailed translation and commentary for the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle, which witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible.


Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Baal and the Politics of Poetry

Author: Aaron Tugendhaft

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-01

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1351663771

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Baal and the Politics of Poetry provides a thoroughly new interpretation of the Ugaritic Baal Cycle that simultaneously inaugurates an innovative approach to studying ancient Near Eastern literature within the political context of its production. The book argues that the poem, written in the last decades of the Bronze Age, takes aim at the reigning political-theological norms of its day and uses the depiction of a divine world to educate its audience about the nature of human politics. By attuning ourselves to the specific historical context of this one poem, we can develop more nuanced appreciation of how poetry, politics, and religion have interacted—in antiquity, and beyond.


Religious Texts from Ugarit

Religious Texts from Ugarit

Author: Nick Wyatt

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2002-11-26

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 9780826460486

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An updated and corrected edition of a classic work, with new material. This book is an up-to-date translation and commentary on the Ugaritic texts. Of interest and importance for a general readership, as well as students and specialists in biblical, classical and religious studies. As well as being intrinsically fascinating, the Ugaritic texts have long been recognized as basic background material for Old Testament study. Ugaritic deities, myths, religious terminology, poetic techniques and general vocabulary are widely encountered by the attentive reader of the Hebrew Bible. The present edition offers an up-to-date translation and commentary based on scrutiny of the original tablets and the most recent academic discussion. While addressing the needs of accurate translation it also attempts to take seriously demands for a readable English version.


Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan

Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan

Author: John Day

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-06-15

Total Pages: 289

ISBN-13: 0567537838

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This masterly book is the climax of over twenty-five years of study of the impact of Canaanite religion and mythology on ancient Israel and the Old Testament. It is John Day's magnum opus in which he sets forth all his main arguments and conclusions on the subject. The work considers in detail the relationship between Yahweh and the various gods and goddesses of Canaan, including the leading gods El and Baal, the great goddesses (Asherah, Astarte and Anat), astral deities (Sun, Moon and Lucifer), and underworld deities (Mot, Resheph, Molech and the Rephaim). Day assesses both what Yahwism assimilated from these deities and what it came to reject. More generally he discusses the impact of Canaanite polytheism on ancient Israel and how monotheism was eventually achieved.


Stories from Ancient Canaan

Stories from Ancient Canaan

Author: Michael David Coogan

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1978-01-01

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9780664241841

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Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The Healers, Kirta and Baal. Stories from Ancient Canaan is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and will be useful to students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.


The Storm-god in the Ancient Near East

The Storm-god in the Ancient Near East

Author: Alberto Ravinell Whitney Green

Publisher: Eisenbrauns

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1575060698

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Green traces these motifs through the Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Syrian, and Levantine regions; he argues that, in the end, Yahweh of the Bible can be identified as a storm-god, though certain unique characteristics came to be associated with him: he was the creator of all that is created and the self-existing god who needs no other."--BOOK JACKET.


El in the Ugaritic texts

El in the Ugaritic texts

Author: M.H. Pope

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-02-04

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 9004275258

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Preliminary material /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- THE WORD 'ēl AS APPELLATIVE AND AS PROPER NAME /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- THE ETYMOLOGY OF 'ēl /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- UGARITIC PROPER NAMES COMPOUNDED WITH Il /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- EL'S EPITHETS AND ATTRIBUTES IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- ELYON AND EL AND BAAL SHAMĒM /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- BETHEL /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- EL'S ABODE /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- EL'S STATUS AND SIGNIFICANCE IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS -- INDEXES /Editors EL IN THE UGARITIC TEXTS.