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

Resources for Further Study 211
Zuckerman, Marilyn Lundberg, and Leta Hunt of West Semitic
Research. The student will find that Watson and Wyatt’s
Handbook for Ugaritic Studies[=HUS]—though too expensive for
many impoverished students to buy—will be a good starting place
for most areas of research into the Ugaritic language, literature,
history and culture. The book, The City of Ugarit at Tell Ras
Shamra (2006), by Marguerite Yon, provides a good overview of
the site in its ancient Near Eastern context. Useful short summaries
have been written by Yon in the Oxford Encyclopedia of the
Ancient Near East and the Anchor Bible Dictionary.
9.2 GENERAL INTRODUCTIONS
Craigie, P. C., Ugarit and the Old Testament (Grand Rapids, MI:
Eerdmans, 1983). A brief, popular account of Ugarit and its
significance for biblical studies.
Curtis, A., Ugarit (Ras Shamra) (Cities of the Biblical World;
Cambridge: Lutterworth, 1985). A quick, general overview of
the ancient city of Ugarit.
Smith, M. S., Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the
Twentieth Century (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers,
2001). The story of the people who have studied ancient
Ugarit.
Watson, W. G. E. and N. Wyatt, eds., Handbook for Ugaritic
Studies (HdO 1/39; Leiden/Boston/Köln: Brill, 1999). [=HUS].
A weighty scholarly overview of the various topics that
concern Ugaritic studies. See the trenchant review of D.
Pardee, “Ugaritic Studies at the End of the 20th Century,”
BASOR 320 (2000), 49–86.
Yon, M., P. Bordreuil, and D. Pardee, “Ugarit,” ABD 6:695–721.
A good, quick overview of the ancient Ugarit, including the
archaeological excavations, the history of the ancient city, the
literature, and the language.
9.3 ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF UGARIT
Arnaud, D. “Prolégomènes à la redaction d’une histoire d’Ougarit
II: les bordereaux des rois divinizes,” SMEA 51 (1999),
153–73.