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| Other authors / contributors: | Driver, G. R. (Godfrey Rolles), 1892-1975.
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| ISBN: | 9780567126900
0567126900
0567080897
9780567080899
9786611783655
6611783652
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xx).
Includes parallel text in English and transliterated Ugaritic.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The tablets of poetic mythological texts unearthed during the excavation of Urgarit are here edited and translated to shed new light on the religion and literature of the ancient world. 'The tablets ... a.re of great importance for the study of literature and religion in an area of the ancient world which chiefly through the avenue of the Hebrew bible excercised a deep influence on the rise of European civilization. They are enabling scholarship for the first time to arrive at a positive appraisal of the highler levels of Canaanite culture, which is so remorselessly attacked in the Bible but whi.
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| Other form: | Print version: Gibson, John C.L. Canaanite myths and legends. 2nd ed. London ; New York : T & T Clark International, ©2004
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