The Gods of Mount Sapanu

Deity Groups in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts

By (author) A. Rahmouni

Book cover: The Gods of Mount Sapanu

Extent: 448 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Biblical Studies

Series: Études Bibliques. Nouvelle Série

Series volume number: 92

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(October 2023)

ISBN: 9789042948341

Price: $138.00

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(October 2023)

ISBN: 9789042948358

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This volume comprises a philological and historical-cultural study of the epithets and appellations of the forty deity groups and demonic beings appearing in the alphabetic cuneiform texts from Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani. This volume shows that the deity groups occupied an important place in the Ugaritic religious spectrum and were pivotal for the worshiper, despite the dominance, authority and reputed supremacy of certain individual deities. Particular attention has been paid to parallel appellations and epithets in the cognate Semitic languages, including Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew and Classical Arabic.


The Gods of Mount Sapanu. Deity Groups in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts comprises a philological and historical-cultural study of the epithets and appellations of the forty deity groups and demonic beings appearing in the alphabetic cuneiform texts from Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani. This volume shows that the deity groups occupied an important place in the Ugaritic religious spectrum and were pivotal for the worshiper, despite the dominance, authority and reputed supremacy of certain individual deities. Particular attention has been paid to parallel appellations and epithets in the cognate Semitic languages, including Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew and Classical Arabic.

  • By (author) A. Rahmouni