Ugaritic Narrative Poetry - Softcover

Marcus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0788503375 ISBN 13: 9780788503375

Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature, 1997

Synopsis

More than 500 years before the Odyssey and the Iliad, before the biblical books of Genesis or Job, masters of the epic lived and wrote on the Mediterranean coast. The Ugaritic tablets left behind by these master scribes and poets were excavated in the second quarter of the twentieth century from the region of modern Syria and Lebanon, and are brought to life here in contemporary English translations by five of the best known scholars in the field. Included are the major narrative poems, "Kirta," "Aqhat," and "Baal," in addition to ten shorter texts, newly translated with transcriptions from photographs using the latest techniques in the photography of epigraphic materials (sample plate included).

About this title

About the Author

Mark S. Smith is Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University. His publications include The Pilgrimage Pattern in Exodus (1997), The Ugaritic Baal Cycle (1994), The Early History of God (1990), as well as several other books on the Hebrew Bible, the Dead Sea
Scrolls, and West Semitic mythology and literature.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)

Edition details

• Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0788503375
• ISBN 13: 9780788503375
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Parker Simon B.