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Book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology

Download or read book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology written by Mitchell Dahood and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Second reprint with minor corrections."

Book Ugaritic Hebrew philology

Download or read book Ugaritic Hebrew philology written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology

Download or read book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology written by Mitchell J. Dahood and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology

Download or read book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology written by Mitchell Dahood and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Basic Grammar of Ugaritic Language

Download or read book A Basic Grammar of Ugaritic Language written by Stanislav Segert and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, the first cuneiform tablet, inscribed with previously unknown signs, was found during archeological excavations at Ras Shamra (ancient Ugarit) in northern Syria. Since then a special discipline, sometimes called Ugaritology, has arisen. The impact of the Ugaritic language and of the many texts written in it has been felt in the study of Semitic languages and literatures, in the history of the ancient Near East, and especially in research devoted to the Hebrew Bible. In fact, knowledge of Ugaritic has become a standard prerequisite for the scientific study of the Old Testament. The Ugaritic texts, written in the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries B. c., represent the oldest complex of connected texts in any West Semitic language now available (1984). Their language is of critical importance for comparative Semitic linguistics and is uniquely important to the critical study of Biblical Hebrew. Ugaritic, which was spoken in a northwestern corner of the larger Canaanite linguistic area, cannot be considered a direct ancestor of Biblical Hebrew, but its conservative character can help in the reconstruction of the older stages of Hebrew phonology, word formation, and inflection. These systems were later-that is, during the period in which the biblical texts were actually written-complicated by phonological and other changes. The Ugaritic texts are remarkable, however, for more than just their antiquity and their linguistic witness. They present a remarkably vigorous and mature literature, one containing both epic cycles and shorter poems. The poetic structure of Ugaritic is noteworthy, among other reasons, for its use of the "parallelism of members" that also characterizes such ancient and archaizing poems in the Hebrew Bible as the Song of Deborah (in Judges 5), the Song of the Sea (in Exodus 15), Psalms 29, 68, and 82, and Habakkuk 3. Textual sources and their rendering The basic source for the study of Ugaritic is a corpus of texts written in an alphabetic cuneiform script unknown before 1929; this script represents consonants fully and exactly but gives only limited and equivocal indication of vowels. Our knowledge of the Ugaritic language is supple-mented by evidence from Akkadian texts found at Ugarit and containing many Ugaritic words, especially names written in the syllabic cuneiform script. Scholars reconstructing the lost language of Ugarit draw, finally, on a wide variety of comparative linguistic data, data from texts not found at Ugarit, as well as from living languages. Evidence from Phoenician, Hebrew, Amorite, Aramaic, Arabic, Akkadian, Ethiopic, and recently also Eblaitic, can be applied to good effect. For the student, as well as for the research scholar, it is important that the various sources of U garitic be distinguished in modern transliteration or transcription. Since many of the texts found at Ugarit are fragmentary or physically damaged, it is well for students to be clear about what portion of a text that they are reading actually survives and what portion is a modern attempt to fill in the blanks. While the selected texts in section 8 reflect the state of preservation in detail, in the other sections of the grammar standardized forms are presented, based on all available evidence.

Book Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament

Download or read book Comparative Philology and the Text of the Old Testament written by James Barr and published by Eisenbrauns. This book was released on 1987 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded version of James Barr's classic work, three additional articles by the author are added. They are (1) "Philology and Exegesis: Some General Remarks, with Illustrations from Job," (2) "Ugaritic and Hebrew sbm?" and (3) "Limitations of Etymology as a Lexicographical Instrument in Biblical Hebrew." The text of the original edition (Oxford University Press, 1968) remains unchanged. In addition to the seventy-five pages of additional material, this expanded version concludes with a postscript by Professor Barr, placing the articles within the context of the book.

Book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mitchell J. Dahood (SI)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1965
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 89 pages

Download or read book Ugaritic Hebrew Philology written by Mitchell J. Dahood (SI) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Primer on Ugaritic

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  • Author : William M. Schniedewind
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2007-07-02
  • ISBN : 1139466984
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book A Primer on Ugaritic written by William M. Schniedewind and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugaritic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian. The book begins with a general introduction to ancient Ugarit, and the introduction to the various genres of Ugaritic literature is placed in the context of this introduction. The language is introduced by genre, beginning with prose and letters, proceeding to administrative, and finally introducing the classic examples of Ugaritic epic. A summary of the grammar, a glossary, and a bibliography round out the volume.

Book Marginalia to M  Dahood s Ugaritic Hebrew Philology

Download or read book Marginalia to M Dahood s Ugaritic Hebrew Philology written by Marvin H. Pope and published by . This book was released on 1966* with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ugarit hebrew Philology

Download or read book Ugarit hebrew Philology written by Mitchel Dahood and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colometry in Ugaritic and Biblical Poetry

Download or read book Colometry in Ugaritic and Biblical Poetry written by Oswald Loretz and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Epigraphy  Philology  and the Hebrew Bible

Download or read book Epigraphy Philology and the Hebrew Bible written by Jeremy Michael Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colleagues and former students honor Professor Jo Ann Hackett in this collection of essays focused on her interests in Northwest Semitic languages and epigraphy, and Southern Levantine religions of the Iron Age. Each of the three sections begins with concise methodological chapters followed by subject-specific application chapters. Each contributor illuminates the unifying theme of the collection: the continuing value and necessity of philological and comparative study of the Hebrew Bible.

Book A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language

Download or read book A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language written by Daniel Sivan and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-07-19 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ugaritic, discovered in 1929, is a North-West Semitic language, documented on clay tablets (about 1250 texts) and dated from the period between the 14th and the 12th centuries B.C.E. The documents are of various types: literary, administrative, lexicological. Numerous Ugaritic tablets contain portions of a poetic cycle pertaining to the Ugaritic pantheon. Another part, the administrative documents shed light on the organization of Ugarit, thus contributing greatly to our understanding of the history and culture of the biblical and North-West Semitic world. This important reference work, a revised and translated edition of the author's Hebrew publication (Beer Sheva, 1993), deals with the phonology, morphology and syntax of Ugaritic. The book contains also an appendix with text selections.

Book Northwest Semitic Philology and the Hebrew Fragments of Ben Sira

Download or read book Northwest Semitic Philology and the Hebrew Fragments of Ben Sira written by Tadeusz Penar and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Untold Stories

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  • Author : Mark S. Smith
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Untold Stories written by Mark S. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of Ugaritic studies and their impact on the study of the Bible. From the first discoveries in the late 1920s through the end of the millennium, Ugaritic studies have revolutionized the modern understanding of the Bible. The stories told in this book combine analysis of the major trends and intellectual approaches taken in various periods with firsthand accounts of the major Ugaritic and biblical scholars drawn from personal interviews and letters, including previously unknown sources from several archival collections.

Book A Comparative Lexicon of Ugaritic and Canaanite

Download or read book A Comparative Lexicon of Ugaritic and Canaanite written by Issam K. H. Halayqa and published by Ugarit Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.K.H. Halayqa investigates lexical correspondences of Ugaritic and Canaanite: "Ugaritic was a spoken and written language in an area adjacent to various Canaanite dialects, such as the language of the El-Amarna letters from the city states in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine and Phoenician in Lebanon. Ugaritic was still a spoken language in the El-Amarna period, to which Old Canaanite belongs. Therefore the generic relationship between Ugaritic and Canaanite cannot be dispensed. It therefore seems appropriate to compare etymologically all the Ugaritic lexemes to those of the Northwest Semitic languages, in particular with the Canaanite branch." "The position of the Ugaritic language among the Northwest Semitic languages remains a question of lively debate. Ugaritic has been grouped with Amorite, Canaanite, Arabic and Old South Arabic. It has even been considered early Hebrew or early Phoenician or has been seen as a separate Northwest Semitic language distinct from Canaanite and Aramaic. Nevertheless, neither general acceptance nor satisfactory classification has been firmly established." "The process of searching and investigating all the possible Canaanite correspondences for 2254 Ugaritic lexemes has lead to the emergence of our lexicon, which contains 1643 certain and uncertain lexemes (1302 + 341) In other words, of 2254 lexemes only 1643 have been found with certain and uncertain Canaanite cognates."