Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (Writings from the Ancient World)

Ritual and Cult at Ugarit (Writings from the Ancient World)
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Страниц
 
316
ISBN
 
1589830261
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Society of Biblical Literature
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Разное

Содержание:

Лягушка-путешественница, Сказание о гордом Аггее, Сказка о Жабе и Розе, Attalea princeps

Описание:

The Ugaritic ritual texts provide the only extensive documentary data for Late Bronze cultic practice in the greater Syro-Palestinian region. These texts, in a West-Semitic language that belongs to the same family as Hebrew and Aramaic, reflect the actual practice of a sacrificial cult in the city of Ugarit in the late twelfth-early eleventh centuries B.C.E. Based on new collations of the tablets, these texts and translations provide ready access to this direct witness to the form taken by one of the predecessors of the biblical sacrificial cult. In addition to the narrowly ritual texts, which were composed in prose and in a very laconic form of expression, a number of poetic texts are presented that reveal the ideological link that existed between cultic practice and the concept of royalty. While the prose ritual texts document a regular system of offerings to the great deities of the pantheon, related directly to the lunar cycle and less directly to the solar year, some of the...

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