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Remembering Ugarit

The Tablets from Ugarit and Their Importance for Biblical Studies

By Peter C. Craigie

For 40 years Claude Schaeffer directed excavations at Ras Shamra in Syria. There he and his colleagues uncovered the remains of the long lost city of Ugarit, a Late Bronze Age metropolis in early Biblical times. And among the ruins of Ugarit, he found the archives of the ancient city The clay tablets discovered in those archives have had a revolutionary impact on the study of the Hebrew Bible. It was on May 14, 1929, as the dirt was being cleared from the floor of what had once been a building (a library, as they were later to determine), […]

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Footnotes

1.

Others are in Akkadian, Sumerian, Hurrian, Hittite and Cypro-Minoan; there are also some Hittite and Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions.

Endnotes

1.

The Ras Shamra Tablets: Their Bearing on the Old Testament (T. and T. Clark: Edinburgh, 1935).

2.

Les Découvertes de Ras Shamra (Ugarit) et L’Ancien Testament (Paris, 1937).

3.

J. B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 1950).

4.

“A Phoenician Hymn in the Psalter,” XIX Congresso Internazionale degli Orientalisti (Rome, 1935), pp. 472–76.

5.

Theodor H. Gaster, “Psalm 29, ” Jewish Quarterly Review 37 (1946–1947), pp. 55–65.