The Ugaritic Baal Cycle: Volume II. Introduction with Text, Translation and Commentary of KTU/CAT 1.3-1.4This second volume of the commentary on the Baal Cycle, the most important Canaanite religious text from Ugarit, in Syria, analyzes KTU/CAT 1.3 and 1.4, the tablets that contain the long episode about how Baal secured permission from El to build his royal palace and how the palace was built. It includes a new edition of the tablets, supplemented by a DVD-ROM with 92 images and superimposible drawings, a comprehensive introduction, new translation and vocalized text, and detailed commentary. The authors develop an interpretation of the episode which places it into the larger context of the Baal Cycle as a whole. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Translation of CAT 13 and 14 | 69 |
Text Translation and Commentary | 87 |
CAT 13 I | 91 |
CAT 13 II | 127 |
Common terms and phrases
Akkadian Amurru Anat Anat's Ancient ANET appears Aqhat Epic Arabic Aramaic argues assures the reading Athirat atrt attested Baal Cycle Baal's battle Biblical bicola bicolon Cloudrider CML¹ CML² cognate column Commentary context deity described Dietrich and Loretz discussion divine earth El's Emar enemies Enuma Elish epithet evidence feast Ginsberg goddess gods Hebrew horizontal Huehnergard Hurrian Ilimalku indicates interpretation ISBN 90 king Kothar left wedge letter meaning Mesopotamian messengers Mightiest Baal Moor mountain narrative netherworld noted noun palace Pardee passage perhaps phrase poetic Pope prepositional preserved proposed reconstructed refers rendered right wedge ritual root Sapan scholars second line seems semantic Sivan sonant parallelism speech SPUMB story suggests syntactical syntax tablet temple term Thespis third line traces translation tricolon Ugaritic verb vertical West Semitic word divider Wyatt Yahweh Yamm yammi yqtl