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A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugaritic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian. The book begins with a general introduction to ancient Ugarit, and the introduction to the various genres of Ugaritic literature is placed in the context of this introduction. The language is introduced by genre, beginning with prose and letters, proceeding to administrative, and finally introducing the classic examples of Ugaritic epic. A summary of the grammar, a glossary, and a bibliography round out the volume.

Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ugaritic philology --- Civilization --- Ugaritic philology. --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Civilization. --- Antiquities --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- -Syria --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Antiquities. --- Antiquities --- Ugarit (Extinct city).

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299.23 --- Oud-syrische godsdiensten. Ugaritische godsdienst --- 299.23 Oud-syrische godsdiensten. Ugaritische godsdienst --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Religious life and customs. --- Antiquities

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In 1929, a farmer accidentally discovered a tomb near the Mediterranean coast of Syria, about 12 km north of the modern seaport of Latakia. Initial excavations at the tell of Ras Shamra by René Dussaud and Claude Schaeffer brought to light impressive architectural remains, numerous artifacts, and tablets written in cuneiform (both alphabetic and syllabic), and the excavators soon were able to identify the site as the ancient city of Ugarit. Much of the material remains came to be dated to the end of the Late Bronze Age, from the 14th century through the 12th century B.C.E., and the religious, economic, and mythological texts from that era have had a major effect on our understanding of the history of the late 2nd millennium. However, by that time the site had already seen more than 6,000 years of occupation, and the data from Ras Shamra-Ugarit thus have become important as a reference point for the early history of the Near East along the Levantine coast and the eastern Mediterranean.In this volume, Marguerite Yon, the principal investigator since the early 1970s on behalf of the French archaeological team, brings us up to date on the 70-year-long excavation of the site. During the past 25 years, much of our understanding of the site itself has changed, due to new excavations, reexcavation, and reinterpretation of prior excavations. This volume is the authoritative latest word on the data from the site and their meaning for our understanding of the importance of ancient Ugarit.Heavily illustrated, including many black-and-white and color photographs.

Excavations (Archaeology) --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Antiquities --- 902 <394.4 UGARIT> --- 902 <394.4 UGARIT> Archeologie--Fenicië--UGARIT --- Archeologie--Fenicië--UGARIT --- Excavaciones arqueológicas --- Ugarit (Siria)

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Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall view of the subject is virtually impossible. Wilfred Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, the editors of the present Handbook in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, have brought together and made accessible this accumulated knowledge on the archives from Ugarit, called 'the foremost literary discovery of the twentieth century' by Cyrus Gordon. In 16 chapters a careful selection of specialists in the field deal with all important aspects of Ugarit, such as the discovery and decipherment of a previously unknown script (alphabetic cuneiform) used to write both the local language (Ugaritic) and Hurrian and its grammar, vocabulary and style; documents in other languages (including Akkadian and Hittite), as well as the literature and letters, culture, economy, social life, religion, history and iconography of the ancient kingdom of Ugarit. A chapter on computer analysis of these documents concludes the work. This first such wide-ranging survey, which includes recent scholarship, an extensive up-to-date bibliography, illustrations and maps, will be of particular use to those studying the history, religion, cultures and languages of the ancient Near East, and also of the Bible and to all those interested in the background to Greek and Phoenician cultures.

Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic --- Ugaritic philology --- Inscriptions cunéiformes ougaritiques --- Philologie ougaritique --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Ougarit (Ville ancienne) --- Cuneiform inscriptions, Ugaritic. --- Ugaritic philology. --- 809.25 --- 939.43 --- Ugaritic cuneiform inscriptions --- Ugaritisch --- History Ancient world Syria to 640 --- Ougarit (Extinct city) --- Raʼs Shamrah (Syria) --- Ras Shamra (Syria) --- Ugarit (Ancient city) --- Syria --- Antiquities --- 809.25 Ugaritisch --- Inscriptions cunéiformes ougaritiques