A Window for Death

July 10, 2015 Rick Wadholm9 Comments

As I prepare for my course on Jeremiah this fall I noticed that the commentaries I was using (Brueggemann, Feinberg, Harrison, Kidner, Lalleman, Wright) were not covering the Ugaritic connection in Jeremiah 9:21 (English versions; vs. 20 in the Hebrew) which reads: ‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified… Continue reading A Window for Death

Baal · Canaanite Literature · Mark Smith · Michael Coogan · Ugaritic

Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition

January 26, 2015 Rick WadholmLeave a comment

I had not realized there was an update to the already helpful “Stories from Canaan” by Michael Coogan. This update includes the work of Mark Smith (who has been writing THE critical commentary on the Baal Cycle for well over a decade and has compiled the most exhaustive bibliography on Ugaritic studies available). While I… Continue reading Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition

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A Window for Death

Stories from Ancient Canaan, Second Edition