Handbook of Ugaritic Studies

Wilfred Watson, Nicolas Wyatt (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

896 Seiten

1999
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-10988-9 (ISBN)

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This work deals with all important aspects of Ugarit, such as the decipherment of a previously unknown script used to write both Ugarit and Hurrian, their grammar and vocabulary; documents in other languages together with the literature and letters of the ancient kingdom of Ugarit.

All aspects of the ancient site of Ras Shamra (Ugarit) are treated in this compendium: discovery, decipherment of script, interpretation of literary, diplomatic and legal texts, as well as analysis of languages, history, religion and iconography. Cyrus Gordon called its archives 'the foremost literary discovery of the twentieth century' and they have undoubtedly revolutionized our knowledge of the background to Greek, Phoenician and Israelite culture.

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).

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.6.1999
Reihe/Serie	Handbuch der Orientalistik ; BD 39 \| 1.690
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1555 g
Einbandart	Leinen
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Paläografie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-10988-9 / 9004109889
ISBN-13	978-90-04-10988-9 / 9789004109889
Zustand	Neuware