Life And Mortality In Ugaritic

Author : Matthew McAffee
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646020386

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Life and Mortality in Ugaritic by Matthew McAffee Pdf

While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy (“to live”). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli. McAffee’s study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.

Author : Baruch Margalit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Baal (Canaanite deity)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038850223

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A Matter of "life" and "death" by Baruch Margalit Pdf

Author : David Toshio Tsumura
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783161612787

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Was There a Cult of El in Ancient Canaan? by David Toshio Tsumura Pdf

Author : Ola Wikander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1575068354

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Drought, Death, and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel by Ola Wikander Pdf

Author : Alan Avery-Peck,Jacob Neusner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004294141

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Judaism in Late Antiquity 4. Death, Life-After-Death, Resurrection and The World-to-Come in the Judaisms of Antiquity by Alan Avery-Peck,Jacob Neusner Pdf

Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in Scripture as a whole; distinct parts of Scripture such as Psalms and the Wisdom literature; apocalyptic and the non-apocalyptic pseudepigraphic literature, Philo; Josephus; the Dead Sea Scrolls; earliest Christianity (the Gospels in particular); the Rabbinic sources; the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch; and the inscriptional evidence.

Author : Richard N. Longenecker
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467429443

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Life in the Face of Death by Richard N. Longenecker Pdf

This book brings into focus the resurrection message of the New Testament. The chapters demonstrate how the resurrection both provides the basis for joyful living now despite the shadow of death and undergirds the Christian belief in a future after death.

Author : K. Lawson Younger
Publisher : Eisenbrauns
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781575061436

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Ugarit at Seventy-Five by K. Lawson Younger Pdf

In the spring of 1928, a Syrian farmer was plowing on the Mediterranean coast near a bay called Minet el-Beida. His plow ran into a stone just beneath the surface. When he examined the obstruction, he found a large man-made flagstone that led into a tomb, in which he found some valuable objects that he sold to a dealer. Little did he know what he had discovered. In April of 1929, C. F. A. Schaeffer began excavation of the tombs, but a month later he moved to the nearby tell of Ras Shamra. On the afternoon of May 14, the first inscribed clay tablet came to light--thus the beginnings of the study of Ugarit and the Ugaritic language. Seventy-five years have passed, and the impact of this extraordinary discovery is still being felt. Its impact on biblical studies perhaps has no equal. In February 2005, some of the preeminent Ugaritologists of the present generation gathered at the Midwest Regional meetings of the American Oriental Society to commemorate these 75 years by reading the papers that are now published in this volume. The first five essays deal with the Ugaritic texts, while the last three deal with archaeological or historical issues.

Author : H. H. Hardy,Joseph Lam,Eric D. Reymond
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781614910763

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'Like 'Ilu Are You Wise' by H. H. Hardy,Joseph Lam,Eric D. Reymond Pdf

This volume honors Dennis G. Pardee, Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and one of the preeminent experts in Northwest Semitic languages and literatures, particularly Ugaritic studies. The thirty-seven essays by colleagues and former students reflect the wide range of Professor Pardee's research interests and include, among other topics, new readings of inscriptions, studies of poetic structure, and investigations of Late Bronze Age society.

Author : Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699336

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Life and Death by Francesca Stavrakopoulou Pdf

Life and Death: Social Perspectives on Biblical Bodies explores some of the social, material, and ideological dynamics shaping life and death in both the Hebrew Bible and ancient Israel and Judah. Analysing topics ranging from the bodily realities of gestation, subsistence, and death, and embodied performances of gender, power, and status, to the imagined realities of post-mortem and divine existence, the essays in this volume offer exciting new trajectories in our understanding of the ways in which embodiment played out in the societies in which the texts of the Hebrew Bible emerged.

Author : Gregorio del Olmo Lete
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614514923

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Incantations and Anti-Witchcraft Texts from Ugarit by Gregorio del Olmo Lete Pdf

Ugaritic literary and ritual studies have often neglected or even ignored the Akkadian material from the same archives, which can be used as a frame of reference for the Ugaritic texts. The aim of this work is to offer a comprehensive study of the consonantal (Ugaritic) as well as the syllabic (Akkadian) incantation and anti-witchcraft texts from Ras Shamra as a unified corpus. These texts, dealing with impending dangers (mainly snakebites) and witchcraft attacks, are placed in the context of Ancient Near Eastern magic literature. A discussion of general topics, including magic and religion, the Ugaritic gods of magic, and the definition of incantation, is followed by a new collation and translation of the Akkadian texts, as well as new photographic material for both series. The main focus of this book is the close reading of the consonantal texts in the context of the much larger and better analyzed corpus of Akkadian magic literature.

Author : Mark S. Smith
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004099956

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The Ugaritic Baal Cycle by Mark S. Smith Pdf

This volume provides a lengthy introduction and detailed translation and commentary for the first two tablets of the Baal Cycle, which witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible.

Author : Ola Wikander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Ugaritic language
ISBN : 9174733176

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Drought, Death and the Sun in Ugarit and Ancient Israel by Ola Wikander Pdf

The basic questions underlying the study are the following: 1) How do the concepts of drought, death and the sun relate to each other in the Ugaritic religious literature; how are these concepts used as metaphors to express basic tenets of Ugaritic myth and theology? 2) How are these concepts and their uses reflected in the literature and religion of Ancient Israel? How can the identification of these ancient reminiscences of a shared Northwest Semitic religious background help shed light on the interpretation of various difficult passages in the biblical text and on the relationship between Old Testament theology and that of the surrounding Northwest Semitic cultures?

Author : A. Joseph Ferrara,Herbert B. Huffmon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532692987

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Some Wine and Honey for Simon by A. Joseph Ferrara,Herbert B. Huffmon Pdf

This volume celebrates the life and work of the late Simon B. Parker (1940-2006), the Harrell F. Beck Scholar of Hebrew Scripture at the School of Theology and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. Contributors Edward L. Greenstein Mark S. Smith Karel van der Toorn Steve A. Wiggins N. Wyatt Katheryn Pfisterer Darr David Marcus Herbert B. Huffmon Bernard F. Batto Tim Koch F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp Amy Limpitlaw

Author : Christopher B. Hays
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802873118

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A Covenant with Death by Christopher B. Hays Pdf

Death is one of the major themes in First Isaiah, although it has not generally been recognized as such. In this study Christopher Hays offers fresh interpretations of more than a dozen passages in Isaiah 538 in light of ancient beliefs about death. Hays first summarizes what is known about death in the ancient Near East during the Second Iron Age, covering beliefs and practicesin Mesopotamia, Egypt, Syria-Palestine, and Judah/Israel. He then shows how select passages in the first part of Isaiah employ the rhetorical imagery of death that was part of their cultural context, and he also identifies ways in which those texts break new creative ground. This books holistic approach to questions that have attracted much scholarly attention in recent decades produces new insights not only for the interpretation of specific biblical passages but also for the formation of the book of Isaiah and for the history of ancient Near Eastern religions.

Author : Jacob Neusner,Alan Alan Jeffery Avery-Peck,Bruce Chilton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004112626

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Judaïsm in Late Antiquity by Jacob Neusner,Alan Alan Jeffery Avery-Peck,Bruce Chilton Pdf

Thirteen foremost scholars describe the views of death, life after death, resurrection, and the world-to-come set forth in Scripture as a whole; distinct parts of Scripture such as Psalms and the Wisdom literature; apocalyptic and the non-apocalyptic pseudepigraphic literature, Philo; Josephus; the Dead Sea Scrolls; earliest Christianity (the Gospels in particular); the Rabbinic sources; the Palestinian Targums to the Pentateuch; and the inscriptional evidence.