Ugarit in Retrospect: Fifty Years of Ugarit and UgariticGordon Douglas Young "Proceedings of the symposium of the same title held at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, February 26, 1979, under the auspices of the Middle West Branch of the American Oriental Society and the Mid-West Region of the Society of Biblical Literature." |
Contents
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A Canaanite Thalassocracy | 31 |
Les Récentes Découvertes Epigraphiques à Ras Shamra et à Ras Ibn Hani | 43 |
Some New Epigraphic Evidence from Tel Aphek in Israel | 49 |
Some Egyptological Considerations Concerning Ugarit | 55 |
Excavations at Ras Shamra and Their Place in the Current Archaeological Picture of Ancient Syria | 59 |
Nouvelles Perspectives des Fouilles | 71 |
LANGUAGE LITERATURE | 79 |
The Cult of the Dead at Ugarit | 159 |
UGARIT IN RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT | 181 |
Ugarit in Retrospect and Prospect | 183 |
Panel Discussion | 189 |
Bibliography | 201 |
General Index | 225 |
Geographical Names Index | 227 |
Ancient Personal Names Index | 230 |
Literary Criticism Folklore Scholarship and Ugaritic Literature | 81 |
Progress and Regress in 50 Years of Literary Study | 99 |
Ugaritic and Hebrew Metrics | 113 |
The Geographical Setting of the AQHT Story and Its Ramifications | 131 |
Ugaritic Words and Phrases Index | 231 |
Ugaritic Texts Cited | 234 |
Scripture Index | 237 |
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