The Ras Shamra Discoveries and the Interpretation of the Old Testament

Autor: J. Philip Hyatt
Rok vydání: 1942
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Academy of Religion. :67-75
ISSN: 1477-4585
0002-7189
DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/x.2.67
Popis: logical discovery which has proved to be the most significant for Biblical study since 1887, when a native Egyptian woman happened upon the first Amarna tablets. The discoveries at the Syrian sites of Ras Shamra and adjoining Minet el-Beida have indeed proved a most valuable supplement to the Egyptian discovery in that they give us priceless information concerning the religion and literature of Syria-Palestine for what is frequently called the "Amarna Age" (around I400 B. C.), just as the Amarna tablets contained information con
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