Canaanite Myths And Legends

G. R. Driver: Canaanite Myths and Legends. Old Testament Studies. Number III, Edingburgh T. & T. Clark 1976

Soft Cover Very Good Latest Impression 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0567243036 Trade Paperback Trade Paperback. Contents: Preface. Abbreviations. Bibliography. Introduction. The Discovery of the Tablets. Analaysis and Interpretation of the Texts. Order of Tablets. Transliteration and Translation of the Texts. Observations on Philogoy and Grammar. Glossary. Biblical References. Additions and Corrections. 169 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.)

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Driver, G.R.: Canaanite Myths and Legends. Old Testament Studies, No. 3. Edinburgh: Clark, 1956.
Einband etwas berieben. - This edition of Canaanite myths and legends from Ugarit (now Ras-as-Samrah) on the Syrian coast is based on lectures delivered over the last ten years and is now published in the hope of making these interesting but difficult texts accessible in convenient form to students of the Old Testament and the Semitic languages, of mythology and religion. No one can occupy himself with these texts without acknowledging his debt to the distinguished pioneers without whom his work could not have even been begun: these are Dr. C. F. A. Schaeffer, who was in charge of the excavations which so successfully recovered the tablets containing them from the soil in which they had lain hidden for some 3500 years; Mons. C. Virolleaud, whose admirably prompt and accurate copies made them available for study, and Prof. E. Dhorme and Prof. H. Bauer, who shared with him the honour of finding the key to the decipherment of the new dialect or language in which these texts were written. That much of their early work has been left behind and that other scholars, notably Prof. H. L. Ginsberg, Dr. T. H. Gaster and Dr. C. H. Gordon, to whom all students of these texts are also greatly indebted, have taken over the task of interpretation, does not detract from the honour of the pioneers. Wherever possible the debt owed to all these and other workers in this field is indicated in the notes and in the glossary. Much labour of great value has already been expended on these texts; but much work still remains to be done on them, and I hope that the present edition may stimulate others to take up the study of them. The bibliography is not intended to be exhaustive; in fact, it contains the titles almost exclusively of books and articles which have been of any use in the preparation of the present work. The glossary will be found to contain a certain number of alternative words, readings and interpretations; these are added because finality has not yet been reached on innumerable points of interpretation and the decision in these cases may still be left to the reader. (Vorwort).

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Gibson, J(ohn) C. L.: Canaanite Myths and Legends, By J. C. L. Gibson, Originally edited By G. R. Driver, and published in the series Old Testament Studies under the auspices of the Society for Old Testament Study, Edinburgh, T & T Clark 1978.
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2. Edition, XX, 168 Seiten, mit 1 Tafel, Gr. 8° (25 x 18 cm), goldgeprägter Orig.-Leineneinband.

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Bratton, Fred Gladstone: Myths and Legends of the Ancient Near East, New York, NY, U.S.A. Thomas Y. Crowell Company 1970 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
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Orange cloth on boards. Owners bookplate on fep. B/W photos. Jacket is sun faded, especially on the spine. Very minor wear at spine ends. Great Stories of the Sumero-Akkadian, Egyptian, Ugaritic-Canaanite, and Hittite cultures. Unlike the writings of ancient Israel, Greece and Rome, these tales did not become known until recently, when archaeologists discovered ancient scripts on tombs, stelae, papyri, pyramids, and clay tablets and finally learned to decipher them. What was found were stories of creation, adventure, sacred rites, the mother goddess, the sun god, virgin birth - themes that are universal, and particularly interesting because they are some four thousand years old. First Edition Very Good Hard Cover; First Edition

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