Life and Mortality in Ugaritic : : A Lexical and Literary Study / / Matthew McAffee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: McAffee, Matthew,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)

While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt ("to die") without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy ("to live"). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli.McAffee's study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. An Analysis of Words for "Life" in Ugaritic -- Chapter 2. NPŠ and Other Terms for Body Parts Especially Associated with the Concept of Life -- Chapter 3. An Analysis of Words for "Death" in Ugaritic -- Chapter 4. The Ugaritic Rapaʾūma -- Chapter 5. Life and Mortality at Ugarit: A Synthesis -- Appendix. First Millennium BC Funerary Monuments -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Scripture -- Index of Ugaritic Sources -- Index of Subjects