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Canaanite myths and legends / J.C.L. Gibson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibson, John C. L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canaanites--Folklore.
- Canaanites.
- Legends--Palestine.
- Legends.
- Legends--Syria.
- Mythology, Canaanite.
- Ugarit (Extinct city).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (189 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : T & T Clark International, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The tablets of poetic mythological texts unearthed during the excavation of Urgarit are here edited and translated to shed new light on the religion and literature of the ancient world. 'The tablets...a.re of great importance for the study of literature and religion in an area of the ancient world which chiefly through the avenue of the Hebrew bible exercised a deep influence on the rise of European civilization. They are enabling scholarship for the first time to arrive at a positive appraisal of the highler levels of Canaanite culture, which is so remorselessly attacked in the Bible but whi
- Contents:
- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION; CONTENTS; CONCORDANCE OF TABLETS; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INTRODUCTION; TRANSLITERATION AND TRANSLATION OF THE TEXTS; NOTE ON THE PHONOLOGY OF UGARITIC; GLOSSARY; BIBLICAL AND OTHER REFERENCES; ADDENDA; TABLE OF UGARITIC SIGNS
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [xiii]-xx).
- Other Format:
- Reproducción impresa de (manifestación): Canaanite myths and legends.
- ISBN:
- 9786611783655
- 9781281783653
- 128178365X
- 9780567126900
- 0567126900
- OCLC:
- 319493138
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