Ritual and Cult at Ugarit.Ritual and Cult at Ugarit. By Dennis Pardee (Society of Biblical Literature The Society of Biblical Literature is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies with the stated mission to "Foster Biblical Scholarship". Membership is open to the public, including 7200 individuals from over 80 countries. , $29.95). P., one of the best modern scholars of Hebrew and Ugaritic, provides here transliteration, translation, and commentary for some sixty texts relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc ritual at the ancient site of Ugarit (14th-13th centuries B.C.E.). Animal sacrifice was at the heart of Ugaritic ritual. Although 234 different deities are mentioned in these texts, the most prominent by far is Baal, also known from polemical comments about him in the Old Testament. The terms used for sacrifice are quite similar to those in the Bible, and the pig was not sacrificed also at Ugarit. Perhaps the biggest difference between these texts and the Bible is the full-blown polytheism polytheism (pŏl`ēthēĭzəm), belief in a plurality of gods in which each deity is distinguished by special functions. The gods are particularly synonymous with function in the Vedic religion (see Vedas) of India: Indra is the at Ugarit and the monotheism monotheism (mŏn`əthēĭzəm) [Gr.,=belief in one God], in religion, a belief in one personal god. In practice, monotheistic religion tends to stress the existence of one personal god that unifies the universe. practiced in Israel, at least in the final form of the text. The differences between Ugarit and Israel reflect in part the geographical separation between the two communities. |
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