Life and Mortality in Ugaritic : : A Lexical and Literary Study / / Matthew McAffee.
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 signif...
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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 ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (392 p.) |
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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