Fillets of Fatling and Goblets of Gold : : The Use of Meal Events in the Ritual Imagery in the Ugaritic Mythological and Epic Texts /

Fillets of Fatling and Goblets of Gold : : The Use of Meal Events in the Ritual Imagery in the Ugaritic Mythological and Epic Texts / / Dan Belnap.

This study focuses on the imagery of meals and feasting in the Baal Myth and Kirta and Aqhat epics. Utilizing contemporary approaches to ritual, these meal events reveal the manner in which ritual behavior described and defined the different social relationships with the Ugaritic pantheon and the in...

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Belnap, Dan,
Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Gorgias Ugaritic Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (253 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. Ritual Theory and Ugaritic/Biblical Studies
  • Chapter 1. The History of Ritual Theory
  • Part II. Meal Events in the Baal Myth
  • Chapter 2. The Feasts and Meal Events of Baal
  • Chapter 3. Other Divine Feasts in the Baal Myth
  • Summary of Part II
  • Part III. Meal Imagery in the Kirta and Aqhat Epics
  • Chapter 4. Meal Events in the Kirta and Aqhat Epics
  • Chapter 5. El’s Cup of Blessing and YHWH’s Cup
  • Chapter 6. Ritual Failure in the Kirta and Aqhat Epics
  • Summary of Part III
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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