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More than five hundred years before the Odyssey and the Iliad, before the biblical books of Genesis or Job, masters of the epic lived and wrote on the Mediterranean coast. The Ugaritic tablets left behind by these master scribes and poets were excavated in the second quarter of the twentieth century from the region of modern Syria and Lebanon and are brought to life here in contemporary English...

of a relatively weak Baal aided by other deities against the threatening cosmic powers of Yamm and Mot may have reflected the status of Ugarit and its ruling dynasty in a world dominated by the great Egyptian and Hittite empires of the Late Bronze Age (Stolz 1982; Smith 1994b: 96–110). Baal’s rule operates on three levels of reality: the cosmic, the human, and the natural (Gibson 1984; Kinet 1978; Smith 1994b: xxv, 96–110). First, the Baal Cycle concentrates on the interaction of the deities on the
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