Abstract
The legal documents from Ugarit recently published by J. NOUGAYROL 1) contain a legal formula which has a striking parallel in the Bible. In a large number of conveyances of property it is stated that the transfer is made in perpetuity, the formula being .samid adi dariti which the editor and translator renders as lie pour toujours 2). This formula is strikingly similar to r'nnTr ... nnr,tsb of Lev. xxv 30. I do not profess to know what precisely the significance of the above parallelism is. It does seem to me, however, that it speaks volumes against those who would assign a late date to the sections of Leviticus relating to the year of the jubilee 3).
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