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This dissertation provides a new interpretation of the Bronze Age Ugaritic myth of Baal. The poem is read within its political context of the thirteenth and twelfth centuries B.C. Building off of previous scholarship that has recognized a political focus in the poem, I situate t…

This dissertation studies old age in biblical Israel and Ugarit, a relatively untouched subject. Chapter one examines how senescence was portrayed in the Hebrew Bible. Sometimes old age is a time of wisdom or an occasion for dispensing blessings to descendants; sometimes it is a…

This dissertation examines the KRT text, three clay tablets, from Ras Shamra/Ugarit in the second millennium B.C. and provides a paleographic overview of the scribal patterns. Surveying previous publications related to the KRT text, the study concludes that the collative and tra…

The wealth of evidence for the study of the economy of Late Bronze Age Ugarit in Syria has long been recognized. Attempts to investigate the Ugaritic economy have been hampered, however, by the application of rigid models to incomplete datasets. It is argued that previous questi…