Excavations at ancient Ugarit in modern Syria began in 1929. To date, thousands of cuneiform tablets have been unearthed revealing a Canaanite civilization which, in many respects, is linguistically and culturally closer to the civilization of the Old Testament than any civilization ever uncovered. Thus, these cuneiform tablets have been the subject of numerous scholarly studies. By now, scholars know a great deal about cuneiform writing. It was used to write many different ancient languages, like Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian, and Hittite. In some cuneiform sign writing systems, the signs represent primarily whole words—logograms; in others, they represent mostly syllabic […]
