The Ugaritic Baal cycle.
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The Ugaritic Baal Cycle offers a translation and the first commentary on the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. The longest and most important religious text from ancient Ugarit, the Baal Cycle witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and the larger background to many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible. The volume treats introductory matters such as date, order and continuity of the tablets, the history of interpretation, and finally a new proposal for the interpretation of text drawing on the insights of previous views as well as newer evidence. The commentary proper provides bibliography, text, textual notes, literary structure and detailed commentary for each column in the first two tablets.
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1 online resource : illustrations. :
9789004275799 :
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Transforming the Dead in Graeco-Roman Egypt : The Spells of P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162
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Intro
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The history of the manuscripts, their acquisition and present location
2 Material description: dimensions and joins, number of columns of text, number of vignettes
3 Description of the writing on the papyri and its layout
4 The scribe of P. Louvre N. 3122 and P. Berlin P. 3162!
5 Provenance and date of the manuscripts
6 The owners of the papyri, their titles, and their families
7 Contents of the papyri
8 Posthumous transformation in ancient Egyptian thought
9 Context of usage of the papyri
10 Orthography
11 Grammar
12 Edition
13 Glossaries
Bibliography of works cited
Indice
Plates
The Ugaritic Baal cycle /
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This second volume of the commentary on the Baal Cycle, the most important Canaanite religious text from Ugarit, in Syria, analyzes KTU/CAT 1.3 and 1.4, the tablets that contain the long episode about how Baal secured permission from El to build his royal palace and how the palace was built. It includes a new edition of the tablets, supplemented by a DVD-ROM with 92 images and superimposible drawings, a comprehensive introduction, new translation and vocalized text, and detailed commentary. The authors develop an interpretation of the episode which places it into the larger context of the Baal Cycle as a whole.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. :
9789047442325 :
Available to subscribing member institutions only.