Ugaritist

plural Ugaritists

1. A scholar who specializes in the Ugaritic language and literature.

   [...] the Ugaritist.

   1961, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, page 163

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   The text, known to Ugaritists as V AB (or ʿnt), is accessible in the edition of Ch. Virolleaud issued under the title La déesse ʿAnat (Mission de Ras Shamra, IV, 1938).

   1944, Bulletin of the Oriental Schools of Oriental Research, page 18

   Here the interest of the Ugaritist will be focussed^([sic]) especially on the discussion of the relation between rpum and the Biblical rᵉfāʾīm, a thorny problem, as there is no Ugaritic text which connects the rpum directly with the idea of death, and I Sam. 28:13 is not sufficient proof that rᵉfāʾīm were considered divine beings in Israel, as rpum in Ugarit certainly were.

   1970, Ugarit-Forschungen, page 367

   Even if Biblical and Ugaritic literature are profoundly different, similarities do exist in their poetic genres because of their common origins. The extremes of pan-Ugaritists and pan-Hebraists must be avoided because there were no direct linear relationships between Ugaritic and Hebrew cultures.

   1987, Old Testament Abstracts, page 213

   In this context a comment may be made upon the controversy among Ugaritists whether there exists an ʾafʿel causative in Ugaritic or not.

   2017, Diathesis in the Semitic Languages, page 78