A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language (HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES/HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK) - Hardcover

Sivan, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004122931 ISBN 13: 9789004122932

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Ugaritic, discovered in 1929, is a North-West Semitic language, documented on clay tablets (about 1250 texts) and dated from the period between the 14th and the 12th centuries B.C.E. The documents are of various types: literary, administrative, lexicological. Numerous Ugaritic tablets contain portions of a poetic cycle pertaining to the Ugaritic pantheon. Another part, the administrative documents shed light on the organization of Ugarit, thus contributing greatly to our understanding of the history and culture of the biblical and North-West Semitic world.
This important reference work, a revised and translated edition of the author's Hebrew publication (Beer Sheva, 1993), deals with the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ugaritic. The book contains also an appendix with text selections.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Sivan, Ph.D., is Professor of Biblical Hebrew and North-West Semitic languages at Beer Sheva University; he also teaches at Bar Ilan University. His publications include studies on grammatical aspects of Biblical Hebrew and Ugaritic.

Language Notes:

Text: English

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 9004122931
• ISBN 13: 9789004122932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 352