Why Ugaritic?
For a more detailed response to this question, see Dr. Michael Heiser's article "What's Ugaritic Got to do with Anything?"
The Ugaritic texts are basic background material for the study of the Bible. Ugaritic is the ancient language of one of Israel’s closest neighbors, the city state of Ras Shamra, located in what is now Syria. Ugaritic is from the same family of languages as Hebrew, Northwest Semitic. This means the Ugaritic texts are closely related to the Hebrew Bible, both linguistically and culturally. The religious texts discuss deities named in the Bible, such as Baal and El, whose descriptions contain titles and phrases attributed to the God of Israel in the Bible. Ugaritic is also one of the most important languages used to help discern the meaning of difficult Hebrew words and phrases.
While most of the Ugaritic in this product is transliterated, which is easier to read than the cuneiform letters, Logos Bible Software is able to display and search on cuneiform Ugaritic text. Above is a sample of the font we designed for this project. Find out why this ancient language is important to you by reading Dr. Michael Heiser's article on Ugaritic studies.
Use this resource alongside:
Electronic Books Included
The Texts of the Ugaritic Data Bank
- Jesús-Luis Cunchillos, Juan-Pablo Vita and José-Ángel Zamora, eds.
The Texts of the Ugaritic Data Bank contains complete transliterations of the Ugaritic material, including alternate readings in many places where previous publications have disagreed on the proper transcription of the tablets. The formatting will likely be somewhat different than the 2003 title from Gorgias Press. The Logos Bible Software content comes from the 2005 version of the database by the same authors. |
Religious Texts from Ugarit, Second Edition
- N. Wyatt, ed.
- 502 pages | 2006
Religious Texts from Ugarit contains accurate and readable English translations of the most important religious texts, along with extensive notes, making these texts accessible to the English reader.
Table of Contents: 1 | 2 | 3
Sample pages: 1 | 2 | 3 |
The Ugaritic Textbook, Revised Edition
- Cyrus Gordon
- 547 pages | 1998
The Ugaritic Textbook is divided into 3 volumes. Volume 1 is a grammar. Volume 2 contains a great selection of texts in transliteration as well as a smaller selection of texts transcribed in the cuneiform script. The Logos Bible Software edition of these texts will be able to link and scroll with the Texts along with the Ugaritic Databank. Volume 3 is a glossary for looking up Ugaritic words, and contains a variety of indices to all three volumes.
Table of Contents: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8
Volume 1: Sample pages : 1 | 2 | 3
Volume 2: Sample pages: 1 | 2 | 3
Volume 3: Sample pages: 1 | 2 | 3 |
Ugaritic-Hebrew Philology
- Mitchell Dahood
- 89 pages | 1965
Ugaritic-Hebrew Philology is structured as addenda and corrigenda to Gordon’s Ugaritic Textbook. All three sections of Gordon’s work – grammar, texts, and glossary – are taken into consideration and commented upon in various details. The Logos Bible Software edition of these texts can be linked together, making it easy to find places where Dahood comments on Gordon’s text. The glossary section will function as a KeyLink destination for looking up Ugaritic Words, just like the glossary in Gordon’s Textbook.
Table of Contents: 1
Sample pages: 1 | 2 | 3 |
Hebrew-Ugaritic Index to the Writings of Mitchell J. Dahood, volumes I and II
- Ernest R. Martinez, S.J.
- 275 pages | 1967, 1981
These two volumes provide an index to all the scripture references, words and grammatical functions discussed in the collected writings of Mitchell Dahood related to Ugaritic and the Hebrew Bible. In addition to indexing the writings of Rev. Dahood, pertinent reviews, related dissertations written by his students, and other relevant works are also indexed. Rev. Dahood was one of the most prolific writers on Ugaritic-Hebrew studies, and these volumes make it easier to locate what he had to say on many passages and words.
Table of Contents: 1
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The Ras Shamra Parallels, volumes I, II and III
- Stan Rummel and Loren Fisher, eds.
- 1663 pages | 1972, 1975, 1981
These outstanding volumes form a bridge between Ugaritic studies and Biblical studies. The Ras Shamra Parallels describe and index features in the Ugaritic tablets that shed some light on the Hebrew Bible. Features indexed include, poetic parallel pairs, professions, institutions, political and foreign affairs, literary genres, place names, words, phrases, flora, fauna, minerals, divine names and narrative structures.
Volume I: Table of Contents: 1
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Volume II: Table of Contents: 1 | 2
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Volume III: Table of Contents: 1
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The Claremont Ras Shamra Tablets
- Loren Fisher, ed.
- 58 pages | 1971
The Claremont Ras Shamra Tablets contains the editio princeps (the first scholarly publication) of six texts – two in Ugaritic and four texts from Ugarit that were written in Akkadian. These texts include photographs of manuscripts, transliteration, translations and commentary.
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Benefits of the Logos Bible Software Edition
With the Logos Bible Software edition, the various reference schemes for the Ugaritic tablets (such as KTU, CTA and UT numbers) are mapped, so that all of the Ugaritic and Hebrew books that cite the Ugaritic corpus can function together as an integrated whole, regardless of which citation format is used. Citations in biblical commentaries and lexicons will be able to link to the Ugaritic materials using any of these reference schemes. This makes the digital editions far easier to use than their print counterparts.
In addition, the Ugaritic materials in English translations previously published in Hallo's The Context of Scripture have been reworked to be integrated with the Ugaritic Library. References to the Ugaritic corpus within key Hebrew grammars and lexicons are already tagged. In particular, Koehler, Baumgartner and Stamm's Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament, The Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, Joüon and Muraoka's A Grammar of Biblical Hebrew, and Waltke and O'Connor's An Introduction to Biblical Hebrew Syntax have already been tagged with references to the Ugaritic Library. References to Ugaritic tablets are tagged for quick linking, as well as making it easy to search the entire library for references to any Ugaritic passage. In the future, references to the Ugaritic materials in the more technical biblical commentaries will also be tagged.
Demo Videos
Ugaritic for Laypeople
In this video, Dr. Michael Heiser, academic editor for Logos, focuses on some individual Hebrew words—geographical proper names to be precise—to show how Ugaritic tools can make Old Testament stories come to life, and even take on theological meaning.
Click the image below to learn how you can access the Ugaritic tools through the ESV Old Testament Reverse Interlinear (available in most Logos base collections) to see the Old Testament in a way you haven’t before.
Please note: This video demonstration shows some resources not included in the Ugaritic Library. Reverse interlinear Bibles are available as part of Logos 3 base collections and HALOT is available as a separate purchase.
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Ugaritic and Data Types
In this video, Vincent Setterholm, the information architect who designed the Ugaritic Library, demonstrates how Logos uses advanced data types to help you get the most out of your books.
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