Comments on: Ugaritic Texts as Ritual Event http://jimgetz.org/2008/07/21/ugaritic-texts-as-ritual-event/ The musings and wanderings of an academician. Wed, 09 May 2012 22:45:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Det omrejsende Bibel-tivoli 32 : PergaMent http://jimgetz.org/2008/07/21/ugaritic-texts-as-ritual-event/#comment-804 Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:55:49 +0000 http://jimgetz.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-804 [...] Jim Getz gør sig overvejelser over, hvordan vi bedst kan fortså ritualtekster fra oldtiden. Det må jeg kigge nærmere på, inden jeg arbejde videre med gudstjenesteteksterne fra Qumran. [...]

]]> By: jimgetz http://jimgetz.org/2008/07/21/ugaritic-texts-as-ritual-event/#comment-774 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:33:06 +0000 http://jimgetz.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-774 Rochell,

Thanks for the comments and the reference.

]]> By: Rochelle Altman http://jimgetz.org/2008/07/21/ugaritic-texts-as-ritual-event/#comment-770 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:36:21 +0000 http://jimgetz.wordpress.com/?p=248#comment-770 If there are check marks, then the ritual was performed and points to the variations being the result of an individual’s choices with regard to the ritual involved. The relevant word is “individual” and probably accounts for the lists of deities — not for the priests, but for the individuals. Easy enough to mentally picture the routine: “Yes, sir; you wish to sacrifice? Good. To which god or gods?” To avoid an infelicitous ritual? You wouldn’t want to sacrifice the wrong thing to the chosen god, would you? Inclusion or exclusion would also depend upon which sacrifice was appropriate to this god or to that god. Check lists would help a great deal when the supplicant wandered in. Further, those check marks indicate that the records (tablets) were discarded periodically — after some set period of time. Millard, is of course, right. (“Only Fragments from the Past: The Role of Accident in our Knowledge of the Ancient Near East. _Writing and Ancient Near Eastern Society_. T & T Clark, 2005. pp 301-319.)

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