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Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee are two of the best-known scholars doing research on the language and texts of the ancient city of Ugarit (modern Tell Ras Shamra). A Manual of Ugaritic includes a historical introduction to the texts and language, a sketch of the grammar of Ugaritic, a bibliography, hand-copies of many texts, and a glossary and text concordance—everything a student needs to...

king of Byblos in the 14th century B.C., who evoked its splendor in a letter addressed to the pharaoh Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten: “Look, there is no mayor’s residence like that of the residence in Tyre. It is like the residence in Ugarit. Exceedingly [gr] eat is the wealth [i] n it” (EA 89:48–52, translation by Moran 1992: 162). Ugarit was also mentioned in the Egyptian geographical lists of Amenhotep III at the Temple of Soleb and among the allies of the Hittites in the poem of Pentaur, which relates
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