Life and Mortality in Ugaritic: A Lexical and Literary Study

While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy (“to live”).

In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic t...