Hebrew and Ugaritic are sister tongues, jointly descended from a proto-northwest-Semitic that has left no written traces, and neither can be said to be older or younger than the other.

This alphabet was found transcribed on small cuneiforms “clay tablets” in the Royal Palace of Ugarit, discovered in 1948; and according to archaeologists, the Ugaritic writing system is the ...

The lost language of Ugaritic was last spoken 3,500 years ago. It survives on just a few tablets, and linguists could only translate it with years of hard work and plenty of luck. A computer ...

The Phoenicians, living in what is now modern Syria and Lebanon, used the same order for their own alphabet. While their language was related to Ugaritic, their writing system was not.

Carleton T. Hodge, The Hieratic Origin of the Ugaritic Alphabet, Anthropological Linguistics, Vol. 11, No. 9 (Dec., 1969), pp. 277-289 ...

(Actually, its the Ugaritic alphabet.) In another elegant little drawing, Ms. Auerbach has used a typewriter to punch out all 26 letters in a single spot and the result looks like a tiny smudge of ...

Charles Virolleaud, the famous cuneiform scholar and the first to decipher the Ugaritic alphabet, the first and most complete alphabet in history discovered at the Ras Shamra site, which dates ...

Despite the enormous gains made by the comparison of Ugaritic and biblical texts, the biblical field has often ignored or criticized such comparisons. One reason lies in the major differences between ...