A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture, and Literature - enenuru

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Resources for Further Study
9.1 SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER STUDY
This primer is intended only to guide a student through the first
semester of a course in Ugaritic. We realize that many students
will not go much further. Here we offer a selected annotated
bibliography for those students who desire further study. 1 This
bibliography is not complete, but it should give the student more
than enough resources to begin further study. Some students will
also know (or should soon be studying) European languages that
are necessary for scholarly research into Ugaritic. We have given
some annotation to the more significant works.
For further studies, students will want to have Daniel Sivan’s A
Grammar of the Ugaritic Language, which is now the standard
reference grammar in English. Research into Ugaritic grammar
should begin with J. Tropper’s monumental, Ugaritische
Grammatik (2000), along with D. Pardee’s equally monumental
review in Archiv für Orientforschung 50 (2003/2004). The
standard dictionary is G. del Olmo Lete and J. Sanmartín’s A
Dictionary of the Ugaritic Language in the Alphabetic Tradition.
Excellent digital images of the Ugaritic tablets can be found at the
Inscriptifact web site, http://www.inscriptifact.com/, an image
database of inscriptions and artifacts compiled by Bruce
1 The authors gratefully acknowledge the use of Mark S. Smith’s unpublished
book, A Bibliography for the Study of Ugaritic and Biblical Hebrew in the
Twentieth Century, which Professor Smith kindly made available to us. See
http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/DEPT/RA/bibs/BH-Ugaritic.html.
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