Word: ugarit
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...milleniums. One enters the building's main entrance through two huge stucco pillars that have also been brought in from the desert, this time from the 8th century Umayyad palace al-Hayr al-Gharbi, near Palmyra. Examples of what is suspected to be the world's first alphabet, Ugarit, show evidence of agreements between ancient kings and merchants carved in clay; just a few rooms away can be seen beautiful Korans and other incredible works of medieval art in stone, ceramic and wood. Many of the displays are not labeled or are identified confusingly (and rarely in English). The museum...
...most akin to the Mesopotamian languages of Old Akkadian and Amorite, and thus distant from Hebrew, believes that the discoveries at Ebla add "nothing directly to biblical scholarship." But Pettinato, who first deciphered Eblaite, considers it an early Canaanite language closest to the northwestern Semitic languages of Hebrew and Ugaritic (the latter was discovered in 1929 at an earlier dig in Ugarit, Syria). One specialist in Ugaritic and Hebrew, American Jesuit Mitchell Dahood of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, goes further. He contends that Eblaite is more directly tied to Hebrew than to Ugaritic, although Ebla was closer...
...once. Dahood reported last month that 70 of those perplexing words have already been found at Ebla. Thus, he says, "not a single one of the Old Testaments in English is up to date." For accuracy, he thinks future translators and historians must rely far more on Ebla and Ugarit, and less on the back ground from Egypt and Mesopotamia...
...here that Ebla's biblical implications are least open to skepticism. The ancient inscriptions, with their extended bilingual word lists, are almost certain to clear up numerous textual obscurities. When Dahood began his work on Ugaritic and the Old Testament many years ago, a conservative colleague in Rome said: "It's hard to believe that God would make us wait all these years for these dirty tablets to find out what the Bible means." To an extent that is what happened with the Ugarit find, and then the Dead Sea Scrolls. Now Ebla is vying to be come...
...years since there have been bitter arguments about the meaning of Ebla, but one undisputed fact rises above the clamor: the Tell Mardikh find ranks with such 20th century archaeological sensations as the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt (1922), Ugarit (1929), Mari on the middle Euphrates (1930s) and the Dead Sea Scrolls...