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Article: Ritual and Cult at Ugarit.(Briefly Noted)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
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- Currents in Theology and Mission
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- April 1, 2004
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Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. By Dennis Pardee (Society of Biblical Literature, $29.95). P., one of the best modern scholars of Hebrew and Ugaritic, provides here transliteration, translation, and commentary for some sixty texts relating to ritual at the ancient site of Ugarit (14th-13th centuries B.C.E.). Animal sacrifice was at the heart of Ugaritic ritual. Although 234 different deities are mentioned in these texts, the most prominent by far is Baal, also known from ...
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