Tag: Rephaim
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Dead Kings and Rephaim The Patrons of the Ugaritic Dynasty
Let us consider the paper by Baruch A. Levine and Jean-Michel de Tarragon, “Dead Kings and Rephaim: The Patrons of the Ugaritic Dynasty.”[1] They note that Pierre Bordreuil and Dennis Pardee have “made possible a more confident interpretation” so that their “confirmed readings afford new possibilities of interpretation”[2] of a text of canonical liturgy known…