Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Ras Shamra Parallels. The Texts from Ugarit and the Hebrew Bible. 2 Vols. of 3

Rome: Pontificium Institutum Biblicum, 1972, 1975. First edition. Softcover. Quarto. xxiii, 537, xiii, 508pp. Original stiff gray wraps with publisher's device and black lettering on covers, black lettering and ruling on spine.

Ras Shamra Parallels derived from the Ugaritic and Hebrew Parallels Project, a project that was undertaken in 1965 at the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity of the Claremont Graduate School. (acknowledgment, vol. 1) The main purpose of the project was "to list and discuss the parallels between the Ugaritic and Akkadian literature from Ras Shamra and the Hebrew Bible." (Introduction) Form (linguistics, narrative structures etc.) and contents (political, social and theological) are discussed and analyzed. Series Analecta Orientalia 49 and 50. Wraps with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed. Blocks uncut and volume one unopened at top and foredge. Small stickers of previous owner on front free endpapers. Very good condition. Item #48497

Price: $95.00