Table of Contents

Preface

Preface to the English Edition

Foreword, Including a Description of the Intended Audience

Historical Introduction and Grammar

1. Introduction to the History and Culture of Ugarit

2. Writing System

3. Phonology

4. Morphology

5. Derivational Processes

6. Compounding

7. Syntax

8. Vocabulary/Lexicon

9. Particularities of Poetic Texts

Abbreviations and Sigla

Works Cited and Bibliographical Abbreviations

Hand Copies

Selection of Texts

I. Mythological Texts

II. Ritual Texts

III. Incantations

IV. “Scientific” Texts

V. Letters

VI. Legal Texts

VII. Administrative Texts

VIII. Abecedaries

Concordance of Text Numbers

Glossary

About the Author

Pierre Bordreuil inaugurated a chair in Ugaritic at the Écoles des Langues et Civilisations de l’Orient Ancien at the Institut Catholique de Paris and was Emeritus Researcher of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

Dennis Pardee is Henry Crown Professor of Hebrew Studies at the University of Chicago.