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Life and Mortality in Ugaritic

A Lexical and Literary Study

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy (“to live”). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli.McAffee’s study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-06-07
Mått152 x 229 x 229 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieExplorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations
Antal sidor392
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9781575066639

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AcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroductionLexicography and MethodA Lexical Analysis of Life and Mortality in UgariticChapter 1. An Analysis of Words for “Life” in Ugaritic1.1. Introduction1.2. The Roots ḥwy/ḥyy1.3. SummaryChapter 2. NPŠ and Other Terms for Body Parts Especially Associated with the Concept of Life2.1. Introduction 672.2. Life and Body Parts: npš = “Neck” and “throat”2.3. Life and Body Parts: brlt as a Parallel of npš2.4. Life and Other Body Parts: kbd, lb, and aʾp2.5. SummaryChapter 3. An Analysis of Words for “Death” in Ugaritic3.1. Introduction3.2. The Root m-w-t3.3. Substantive Forms3.4. SummaryChapter 4. The Ugaritic Rapaʾūma 4.1. Introduction4.2. The Root rpʾ 1924.3. The rpʾum 2004.4. SummaryChapter 5. Life and Mortality at Ugarit: A Synthesis 5.1. Introduction5.2. Mythology and the Language of Correspondence5.3. Life and Revivification 2745.4. The Anatomy of Life5.5. The Life and Death of Physical Objects5.6. The Intersection of Mythology and Burial5.7. The Royal Dead5.8. SummaryAppendix. First Millennium BC Funerary Monuments6.1. Introduction6.2. The Phoenician Royal Funerary Inscriptions6.3. The Zincirli Funerary Inscriptions6.4. Defining Disembodied npš/nbš6.5. SummaryBibliographyIndex of AuthorsIndex of ScriptureIndex of Ugaritic SourcesIndex of Subjects

“McAffee . . . brings much-needed nuance to past philological discussions and is able to confirm and reject previous proposals based on both etymological and literary analysis. McAffee’s most important contribution, however, is drawing attention to the relevance of [concepts related to life and mortality] to the realm of the living, which provides a significant expansion on past research that has primarily addressed them in the context of funerary cult.”—Timothy Hogue Review of Biblical Literature