Abstract

The recovery of the Ugaritic literature has been a great boon to Bible scholars, not only helping to solve textual problems, but providing a cultural backdrop for much of the Biblical material as well 1). The study of Ugaritic poetry has also advanced the understanding of Hebrew poetry, beginning in 1934 when GINSBERG noted that Ugaritic poetry shared with Hebrew poetry not only the feature of parallelism, but also certain fixed expressions. In these fixed expressions the same terms were juxtaposed parallelistically in both Hebrew and Ugaritic poetry. For example, a Ugaritic line:

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