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The Ugaritic ritual texts provide the only extensive documentary data for Late Bronze cultic practice in the greater Syro-Palestinian region. These texts, in a West-Semitic language that belongs to the same family as Hebrew and Aramaic, reflect the actual practice of a sacrificial cult in the city of Ugarit in the late twelfth–early eleventh centuries BCE. Based on new collations of the tablets,...

Ugaritic pantheon. The only presently available evidence from Ugarit is provided by the lists themselves and the associated ritual texts. Comparisons with the Phoenician History of Philo of Byblos show that the first and third lists presented below almost certainly reflect cosmological speculation,2 but we as yet have no “theological” or “mythological” texts from Ugarit that would provide the details of Ugaritic cosmological thinking. The very fact of the existence of these lists is nevertheless
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