Dennis Pardee

Methods of investigation of the Dead Sea scrolls and the Khirbet Qumran site : present realities and future prospects

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Ugaritic Studies at the End of the 20th Century@@@Handbook of Ugaritic Studies

In the mold of the Handbook of Phoenician Studies which appeared in this same series in 1995 (Krings), this volume contains a status studiorum ugritorum at the end of the 20th century. After a four-page introduction by the editors, 27 authors present the field in 15 chapters, which are divided into a total of 46 sections ; some of the chapters are variously authored (e.g., chap. 4, The Ugaritic language, is presented in five sections by six authors) while others are all by one author (e.g., chap. 9, The Legal Texts from Ugarit, is presented in four sections by a single author). Following the introduction which is numbered as a separate chapter (1), the principal topics covered are 2. archaeology ; 3. the written sources ; 4. the Ugaritic language ; 5. Ugaritic stylistics ; 6. Ugaritic literary texts ; 7. Ugaritic cultic texts ; 8. Correspondence ; 9. Legal texts ; 10. Economy ; 11. Society ; 12. onomastics ; 13. religion ; 14. Iconography ; 15. Political history ; 16. The tablets and the computer.