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As well as being intrinsically fascinating, the Ugaritic texts have long been recognized as basic background material for Old Testament study. Ugaritic deities, myths, religious terminology, poetic techniques and general vocabulary are widely encountered by the attentive reader of the Hebrew Bible. The present edition offers an up-to-date translation and commentary based on scrutiny of the...

She took him up into the uttermost parts of Saphon, she wept for him and buried him. She placed him in a grave of the gods of the underworld66. She slaughtered seventy wild bulls 1.6 i 20 [as a fun]eral offering67 for Valiant Baal. She slaughtered seventy oxen as a funeral offering for Valiant Baal. [she slaugh]tered seventy sheep [as a fu]neral offering for Valiant Baal. [She slau]ghtered seventy stags 1.6 i 25 [as a funeral offering for] Valiant Baal.
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