The Disappearance of the Goddess Anat: The 1995 West Semitic Research Project on Ugaritic Epigraphy
The Syrian warrior deity Anat: Was she a cannibal or a lover with a "fatal attraction?" The slender epigraphic cord upon which scholars have long hung such depictions of this Ugaritic goddess has now been definitively severed. In their photograph of the famous tablet KTU 1.96, West Semitic...
| Published in: | The Biblical archaeologist |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholars Press
1996
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The Biblical archaeologist
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| Summary: | The Syrian warrior deity Anat: Was she a cannibal or a lover with a "fatal attraction?" The slender epigraphic cord upon which scholars have long hung such depictions of this Ugaritic goddess has now been definitively severed. In their photograph of the famous tablet KTU 1.96, West Semitic Research Project's Ugaritic project principal researchers Wayne T. Pitard and Theodore J. Lewis have provided the first epigraphically reliable record of the tablet. Voilà: The goddess Anat disappears from the text as does the certainty of three and a half decades of scholarly reconstructions of her cannibalistic nature. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210514 |