Stories from Ancient Canaan
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Contained on fifteen of the cuneiform tables uncovered at the ancient Canaanite city of Ugarit are the four major oral Ugartic myths of Aqhat, The Healers, Kirta and Baal. Stories from Ancient Canaan is the first to offer a one-volume translation of all four. This accessible book teaches the principal Canaanite religious literature, and will be useful to students of the history of religion, of the Bible, and of comparative literature.
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It's good to finally read about our people's mythology when it's all happening in our land and it's part of our History. Main problem i got was the highfalutin translation, it felt too British and got me out of the Canaanite mood.
Second, the analysis is too jewish-centric, no mentions of the Christians and Arabs and the parallelisms there, even though these are the cultures that mainly stayed in the land. Barely any mention of the greeks and babylonians in the analysis too, it just felt (with the amount of isr3li professors and universities mentioned) like it's part of a zi0nist plan to take Ugarit and every Phoenician city on their way, as “land of the israelites”, and here's our proof.
Edit: Checked the author, apparently he teaches Biblical studies in Harvard. So it's an interesting angle, when we know that judaism started from the land of Canaan, just a weird angle for a book of stories. I would've read that essay independently and preferred to enjoy the myths on their own, with a more general analysis.
