| The languages of these cuneiform tablets is primarily Akkadian, Sumerian and Ugaritic. |
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| The literature dates from the 14th and 13th century B.C., so the Ugaritic material has great importance for biblical studies. |
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| At least two different artistic traditions existed simultaneously within the Ugaritic kingdom during the fourteenth and thirteenth centuries. |
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| The fact that the word 'hekal' was used in Ugaritic suggests that it was brought over to the Canaanite branch quite early. |
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| The bulk of the text are direct translations of those works, presented in parallel with transliterations of the Ugaritic. |
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| This will list the basic words that appear in these languages, except for Ugaritic which was discovered later. |
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| Ugaritic is the language of the texts discovered in Ugarit in Syria. |
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| The same may be said for two Ugaritic epics, the epic of Keret and the epic of Daniel and Aqhat, which date from the late Bronze Age. |
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| Like the God of the fathers, El, the head of the Ugaritic pantheon, was depicted as both a judgmental and a compassionate deity. |
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| The cosmopolitan nature of the city is evident from the presence of documents written in Ugaritic, Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian, Hurrian, and even Cypro-Minoan. |
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| The Ugaritic text just alluded to describes El, the head of the pantheon, copulating with two human women. |
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| Baal is portrayed in Ugaritic mythology as impregnating a heifer to sire the young bull god. |
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| Indirect support for a common three-way set of endings is also provided by Ugaritic. |
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| Ugaritic texts tell of other fertility aspects of Baal, such as his relations with Anath, his consort and sister, and also his siring a divine bull calf from a heifer. |
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| In Egyptian, Hittite, and Ugaritic records of the 14th and 13th centuries bc, the Lycians are described as wedged between the Hittites on the north and the Achaean Greeks on the coast. |
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| Yamm and Baal, the storm god of Ugaritic myth and often associated with Zeus, have an epic battle for power over the universe. |
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| Ugaritic had already been deciphered, so the researchers would know if they got a valid result. |
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| Interestingly, the comparable Ugaritic word 'thr' means 'pure. |
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| Cypro-Minoan, Sumerian, Akkadian, Hurrian and Ugaritic cuneiform. |
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