IL as the Collective Godhead ˀIlū in LB Ugarit.
It is generally assumed that a cult of El existed in Late Bronze Age Ugarit and that the alphabetic spelling IL must refer either to the generic “god” or to the divine name El. However, such an either-or question is too simplistic when we are dealing with the multifarious nature of polytheism. In th...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 143; no. 2; pp. 365 - 384 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Apr-Jun2023
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