The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Volume I, Introduction with text, translation and commentary of KTU 1.1-1.2Mark S. Smith "The Ugaritic Baal Cycle" offers a translation and the first commentary on the Ugaritic Baal Cycle. The longest and most important religious text from ancient Ugarit, the Baal Cycle witnesses to both the religious worldview of Ugarit and the larger background to many of the formative religious concepts and images in the Bible. The volume treats introductory matters such as date, order and continuity of the tablets, the history of interpretation, and finally a new proposal for the interpretation of text drawing on the insights of previous views as well as newer evidence. The commentary proper provides bibliography, text, textual notes, literary structure and detailed commentary for each column in the first two tablets. |
Contents
The Date of the Tablets | 1 |
The Order of Columns in KTU 1 1 and 1 2 | 20 |
Literary Classification | 26 |
Grammatical Dating of the Cycle | 36 |
Interpretations of the Baal Cycle | 58 |
plates IX X VI AB | 116 |
Bibliography | 131 |
Commentary | 137 |
KTU 1 1 V | |
KTU 1 1 V 613 | |
KTU 1 1 V 1016 | |
KTU 1 1 V 1521 | |
KTU 1 1 V 2026 | |
KTU 1 1 V 2429 | |
KTU 1 2 III | |
KTU 1 2 III righthand edge | |
Textual Notes | 156 |
Plate 6 | 191 |
Textual Notes | 192 |
Bibliography | 211 |
1 III 511 | 217 |
Text | 260 |
Bibliography | 316 |
Commentary | 324 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 363 |
405 | |
Other Texts Cited | 420 |
KTU 1 1 III 1017 | |
KTU 1 1 III 1623 | |
KTU 1 1 III 2027 | |
KTU 1 1 III 2630 | |
KTU 1 1 V and IV | |
KTU 1 1 IV 110 | |
KTU 1 1 IV 919 | |
KTU 1 1 IV 1725 | |
KTU 1 1 IV 2430 | |
KTU 1 1 IV 2732 | |
KTU 1 2 III 29 lefthand side Plate 28 KTU 1 2 III 39 middle | |
KTU 1 2 III 410 middle | |
KTU 1 2 III 611 righthand side | |
KTU 1 2 III 814 lefthand side | |
KTU 1 2 III 1017 middle | |
KTU 1 2 III 1117 righthand side | |
KTU 1 2 III 1621 lefthand side | |
KTU 1 2 III 1421 middle | |
KTU 1 2 III 1822 lefthand side | |
KTU 1 2 III 1925 middle | |
KTU 1 2 III 1925 righthand side | |
KTU 1 2 I 125 | |
KTU 1 2 I 2147 middle and righthand side + 1 2 II | |
KTU 1 2 I 2248 lefthand side and middle | |
KTU 1 2 IV 123 | |
KTU 1 2 IV 2040 | |
KTU 1 2 IV 16 lefthand side | |
KTU 1 2 IV 16 middle lefthand side | |
KTU 1 2 IV 16 middle righthand side | |
KTU 1 2 IV 16 righthand side | |
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