A Primer on Ugaritic (original) (raw)

A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture. The Ugaritic language and literature was a precursor to Canaanite and serves as one of our most important resources for understanding the Old Testament and the Hebrew language. Special emphasis is placed on contextualization of the Ugaritic language and comparison to ancient Hebrew as well as Akkadian. The book begins with a general introduction to ancient Ugarit, and the introduction to the various genres of Ugaritic literature is placed in the context of this introduction. The language is introduced by genre, beginning with prose and letters, proceeding to administrative, and finally introducing the classic examples of Ugaritic epic. A summary of the grammar, a glossary, and a bibliography round out the volume.

A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature

2007

1. Ancient Ugarit 2. School texts: introducing the language and alphabet 3. Letters (KTU 2): an inductive introduction to Ugaritic 4. Administrative texts (KTU 4) 5. Legal texts (KTU 3) 6. Literary texts (KTU 1) 7. Grammatical precis.

S. Segert, A Basic Grammar of the Ugaritic Language with Selected Texts and Glossary

JAOS , 1987

Because the field of Ugaritic has grown significantly since the publication of Cyrus Gordon's various grammars, upon which over two generations of students have been weaned, the appearance of a new Ugaritic grammar represents a major event for Ugaritic studies. Segert's new Grammaris, however, not a replacement for Gordon because it is primarily a teaching manual. As such it could have been more helpful in its system of enumeration, and in providing cross-references and indices. There are a number of novel features in the Grammar including the extensive use of the syllabic material and the acceptance of an internal causative for the verb. The reviewer notes some deficiencies in the morphological section in both the omission of certain basic forms and in the method of presenting evidence. He points out how the selected texts, containing a nice balance of poetic and non-poetic texts, some with detailed commentaries, could have benefited from cross-references to the grammatical sections.

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The Problem of Classifying Ugaritic

‘The problem of classifying Ugaritic’, in: Kleine Untersuchungen zur Sprache des Alten Testaments und seiner Umwelt (KUSATU) 20: 51-92, 2016