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Handbook
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Publication year: 1999
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Reviews
'...diesen wertvollen Band, der für die weitere Beschäftigung mit Ugarit und seiner Welt unerläßlich sein dürfte.’
F. Zeeb, UF, 1998.
'Nummehr liegt ein veritables “Handbook of Ugaritic Studies” vor, welches den Namen eines Handbuchs wirklich verdient, da es eine verläßliche und erschöpfende Übersicht zum stand der Ugarit-Forschungen gewährt.’
Herbert Niehr, Journal of Semitic Studies. 2001.
Readership
All students of the ancient Near East (its languages, culture, history and religion) and of the Bible and those working in comparative philology and linguistics as well as those interested in the history of Western civilization.
About the author(s)
Wilfred Watson, Ph.D. (1973), Aberdeen University, is Visiting Research Fellow in Newcastle University. He has written extensively on Ugaritic language and poetry and co-edited the Newsletter for Ugaritic Studies and Ugarit, Religion and Culture (Ugarit-Verlag, 1996).
Nicolas Wyatt is Reader in Religious Studies in the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are in the history of religions and mythology. He is author of Myths of Power (Ugarit Verlag, 1996) and Religious Texts from Ugarit (Sheffield Academic Press, 1998).
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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.
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