TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Mark S.
AU  - Parker,Simon B.
TI  - Ugaritic narrative poetry /edited by Simon B. Parker, translated by Mark S. Smith [and others
T2  - Writings from the ancient world
SN  - 9780788503368
AV  - PJ4150 .U337 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - [Atlanta, Ga.
PB  - Society of Biblical Literature
KW  - Ugaritic poetry
KW  - Translations into English
KW  - Ugaritic language
KW  - Texts
KW  - Poetry
N1  - Kirta --; Aqhat --; Baal --; Baal fathers a bull --; A birth --; The wilderness --; The binding of a monster --; El's divine feast --; The Rapiuma --; The birth of the gracious gods --; The betrothal of Yarikh and Nikkal-Ib --; The mare and Horon --; CAT 1.96; 2; b
N2  - "More than 500 years before the Odyssey and the Iliad, before the biblical books of Genesis or Job, masters of the epic lived and wrote on the Mediterranean coast. The Ugaritic tablets left behind by these master scribes and poets were excavated in the second quarter of the twentieth century from the region of modern Syria and Lebanon, and are brought to life here in contemporary English translations by five of the best known scholars in the field. Included are the major narrative poems, "Kirta," "Aqhat," and "Baal," in addition to ten shorter texts, newly translated with transcriptions from photographs using the latest techniques in the photography of epigraphic materials (sample plate included)."
ER  -