Handbook of Ugaritic studies / / edited by Wilfred G.E. Watson and Nicolas Wyatt.

• Superior document: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten, Band 39 = Handbook of Oriental studies. The Near and Middle East
• TeilnehmendeR: Watson, Wilfred G. E.,; Wyatt, N.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Köln, [Germany] : : Brill,, 1999.; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Language: English
• Series: Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Band 39.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (913 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
• Other title: Preliminary material /; GENERAL INTRODUCTION /; RAS SHAMRA, MINET EL-BEIDA AND RAS IBN HANI: THE MATERIAL SOURCES /; THE WRITTEN SOURCES /; THE UGARITIC LANGUAGE /; UGARITIC STYLISTICS /; THE UGARITIC LITERARY TEXTS /; THE UGARITIC CULTIC TEXTS /; THE CORRESPONDENCE OF UGARIT /; THE LEGAL TEXTS FROM UGARIT /; THE ECONOMY OF UGARIT /; THE SOCIETY OF UGARIT /; THE ONOMASTICS OF UGARIT /; THE RELIGION OF UGARIT: AN OVERVIEW /; THE ICONOGRAPHY OF UGARIT /; A POLITICAL HISTORY OF UGARIT /; THE TABLETS AND THE COMPUTER /; REFERENCES /; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS /; INDEX OF TOPICS /; HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004294104
• ISSN: 0169-9423
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Wilfred G.E. Watson and Nicolas Wyatt.

Over the past seven decades, the scores of publications on Ugarit in Northern Syria (15th to 11th centuries BCE) are so scattered that a good overall view of the subject is virtually impossible. Wilfred Watson and Nicolas Wyatt, the editors of the present Handbook in the series Handbook of Oriental Studies, have brought together and made accessible this accumulated knowledge on the archives from Ugarit, called 'the foremost literary discovery of the twentieth century' by Cyrus Gordon. In 16 chapters a careful selection of specialists in the field deal with all important aspects of Ugarit, such as the discovery and decipherment of a previously unknown script (alphabetic cuneiform) used to write both the local language (Ugaritic) and Hurrian and its grammar, vocabulary and style; documents in other languages (including Akkadian and Hittite), as well as the literature and letters, culture, economy, social life, religion, history and iconography of the ancient kingdom of Ugarit. A chapter on computer analysis of these documents concludes the work. This first such wide-ranging survey, which includes recent scholarship, an extensive up-to-date bibliography, illustrations and maps, will be of particular use to those studying the history, religion, cultures and languages of the ancient Near East, and also of the Bible and to all those interested in the background to Greek and Phoenician cultures.