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Ugaritic Narrative Poetry
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Simon B., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ugaritic poetry.
- Ugaritic language.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 265 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] Society of Biblical Literature 1997
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "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)."
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-7885-0336-7
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