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Ugaritic Narrative Poetry (Writings from the Ancient World)

By Mark S. Smith , Simon B. Parker , Edward L. Greenstein , Theodore J. Lewis , David Marcus

Book information

Publisher
Society of Biblical Literature
Year
1997
ISBN
0788503375, 9780788503375
LCC
PJ4150.Z95 E5 1997
Open Library ID
OL1013463M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5779625 bytes)
Series
Writings from the Ancient World Nº 9
Pages
265\288
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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).

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