Article: A Grammar of the Ugaritic Language.(Review)

By DANIEL SIVAN. Translated by A. E RAINEY. Handbuch der Orientalistik, vol. 1, no. 28. Leiden: E. J. BRILL, 1997. Pp. xxi + 327. HFl 154, $96.25.

Daniel Sivan of Ben-Gurion University wrote this grammar for advanced students and scholars of Semitic languages. They will use this work for thorough interpretation of texts. The original approaches and suggestions will incite further research, especially in those matters which still await good solutions.

In the foreword (pp. xvii-xviii) the need for an up-to-date reference grammar of Ugaritic is mentioned. Sivan produced one in Hebrew, publishing it in 1993 in Jerusalem, [Hebrew Text Omitted] (not listed on ...

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