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Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2022 Writing is a social practice, and as such is fundamentally entwined with a wide array of other forms of human activity, professional categories and aspects of cultural life.
Philip J. Boyes
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Lances and javelins in administrative Ugaritic texts
Gladius, 2007 El principal objetivo del artículo es el de analizar los distintos términos ugaríticos utilizados para hacer referencia a lanzas y jabalinas. En los textos administrativos de Ugarit se menciona la existencia de diferentes tipos de lanzas, como parte del ...
Jordi Vidal
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Some Intercultural Roots of Purāṇic Mythological Cycle around Nārāyaṇa
Comparative Literature: East & West, 2022 In this paper, I use the structural analysis of myth proposed by C. Lévi-Strauss to show that there is a structural similarity between two mythological cycles of dying(sleeping)-and-rising god: around Ba’al and around Nārāyaṇa.
Andrew Schumann
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Urban Squares in Late Bronze Age Ugarit: a Street View on Ancient Near Eastern Governance
Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2021 This article deals with the socio-political dimension of public space in 13th-century bc Ugarit, with a particular focus on the city’s squares. Ugarit, located on the Syrian seacoast immediately north of modern Lattakia, is one of the best-documented ...
Alessandra Gilibert
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Writing Sumerian, Creating Texts: Reflections on Text-building Practices in Old Babylonian Schools [PDF]
, 2015 Sumerian lexical and literary compositions both emerged from the same social sphere, namely scribal education. The complexities of inter-compositional dependence in these two corpora have not been thoroughly explored, particularly as relevant to ...
Jay Crisostomo
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Filial Duties in the Ugaritic Epic of Danilu and Aqhatu
Collectanea Theologica, 2023 The list of filial duties from the Aqhatu story constitutes a passage unique to the literature of the ancient Near East, emphasized in the epic by its fourfold repetition in close proximity. This is why the list has attracted much attention of scholars,
Marcin Majewski
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Panta rei, 2023 En el momento en el que la República Árabe de Siria proclamó su independencia en 1946, puso su patrimonio arqueológico al servicio de la construcción de la identidad nacional.
Juan Álvarez García
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What happened to Kemosh? [PDF]
, 2016 What happened to Kemosh in the era after Moab’s loss of political independence? The present article first argues that this question is of interest to scholarship on the Hebrew Bible because Kemosh and Yhwh were initially twinlike: both were patron ...
Collin Cornell
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El Ciclo de Baal como representación social de la realeza de Ugarit
Astarté, 2023 El artículo propone interpretar el Ciclo canónico de Baal en términos de un rol esperado de la realeza de la ciudad de Ugarit. Se sostendrá que los distintos mitemas del texto pueden ser analizados como configuraciones del orden y del caos estatalmente ...
Javier Norberto Nuñez
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The Storm-Gods of the Ancient Near East: Summary, Synthesis, Recent Studies. Part II [PDF]
, 2007 In many regions of the ancient Near East, not least in Upper Mesopotamia, Syria and Anatolia where agriculture relied mainly on rainfall, storm-gods ranked among the most prominent gods in the local panthea or were even regarded as divine kings, ruling ...
Schwemer, Daniel
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