The Ugaritic Texts and the Origins of West-Semitic Literary Composition - Schweich Lectures of the British Academy

Dennis Pardee

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The discovery and decryption of Ugaritic cuneiform tablets in the 1920s has given scholars an insight into the development of alphabetic writing and the origins of biblical poetry.

In this book, based on his Schweich Lectures given in 2007, Professor Dennis Pardee describes the origins of the cuneiform alphabetic writing system developed in Ugarit some time before 1250 BC, the use of alphabetic writing at Ugarit, and gives a comparison of Ugaritic and Hebrew literatures

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ISBN:	9780197264928
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
Imprint:	The British Academy
Pub date:	19 Jan 2012
DEWEY:	492.6711
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	149
Weight:	476g
Height:	239mm
Width:	166mm
Spine width:	22mm