Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition

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Michael D. Coogan, Mark S. Smith
Presbyterian Publishing Corp, Mar 15, 2012 - Fiction - 160 pages
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The texts from ancient Ugarit are among the most important modern discoveries for understanding the Bible. For more than thirty years, Stories from Ancient Canaan has been recognized as a highly authoritative and readable presentation of the principal Canaanite myths and epics discovered at Ugarit. This fully revised edition takes into account advances in the reading, understanding, and interpretation of these stories since 1978. It also includes two additional texts, expanded introductions, and illustrations. Coogan and Smith have collaborated to bring this classic up to date in order to provide accessible and accurate translations of these texts for a new generation of students.
 

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The four myths in this collection were translated from clay tablets found in the ruins of the ancient city of Ugarit, razed during the regional collapse at the end of the Bronze Age. The critical ... Read full review

Contents

Introduction
1
Chapter 1
27
Glossary
173
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

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About the author (2012)

Michael D. Coogan is Lecturer on Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Harvard Divinity School and Director of Publications for the Harvard Semitic Museum. Among other works, he is editor of The New Oxford Annotated Bible and Oxford Biblical Studies Online.

Mark S. Smith is Skirball Professor of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at New York University and author of many books. He was the 2010-11 President of the Catholic Biblical Association of America.

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TitleStories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition
EditorsMichael D. Coogan, Mark S. Smith
Editionillustrated
PublisherPresbyterian Publishing Corp, 2012
ISBN1611641624, 9781611641622
Length160 pages
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Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
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