The Ugaritic Baal Cycle

Volume I. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of Ktu 1.1-1.2
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-09995-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 55, 446 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements

The Ugaritic Baal Cycle offers a translation and the first commentary on the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. The longest and most important religious text from ancient Ugarit, the Baal Cycle witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and the larger background to many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible. The volume treats introductory matters such as date, order and continuity of the tablets, the history of interpretation, and finally a new proposal for the interpretation of text drawing on the insights of previous views as well as newer evidence. The commentary proper provides bibliography, text, textual notes, literary structure and detailed commentary for each column in the first two tablets.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Mark S. Smith, Ph.D. (1985) in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literatures at Yale University, is Associate Professor of Bible at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. He has published extensively on Ugaritic, Israelite Religion and the Psalms.