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For those interested in learning more of the Canaanite, Phoenician pagan religion i will post this booklist I found on the net. I even made a compilation of information regarding Canaanite religion and their deities.
Aubet, Maria E., The Phoenicians and the West, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1987, 1993.
S. H. Hooke Middle Eastern Mythology , Penguin Books, New York, 1963.
John C. L. Gibson Canaanite Myths and Legends, T & T Clark Ltd., Edinburgh, 1977.
Moscoty, Sabatino, The World of the Phoenicians, Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, New York, 1968.
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament, ed. James Pritchard, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1955.
Szneycer, Maurice articles in Mythologies Volume One compiled by Bonnefoy, Yves, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991.
Sykes, Edgerton Who's Who in Non-Classical Mythology, Oxford University Press, New York, 1993.
M. Coogan Stories From Ancient Canaan
Day, John, Molech:A God of Human Sacrifice in the Old Testament, Cambridge University Press, New York, 1989.
C.H. Gordon Ugaritic Literature, Rome, 1949.
Hall, H. R., The Ancient History of the Near East, Methuan & Co. Ltd, London, 1950.
The Ancient Near East: Supplementary Texts and Pictures Relating to the Old Testament, ed. James Pritchard, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1969.
Ugaritic Narrative Poetry by Simon B. Parker (Editor)
Canaanite Myths and Legends by John C. Gibson
Stories from Ancient Canaan by Michael David Coogan
Goddess Anath: Canaanite Epics of the Patriarchal Age by U. Cassuto
The Ugaritic Baal Cycle by Mark S. Smith
Comparative Mythology
Untold Stories: The Bible and Ugaritic Studies in the 20th Century by Mark S. Smith
Riddle of Resurrection: Dying and Rising Gods in the ANE by Tryggve N. D. Mettinger
The Bible and the Ancient Near East by Cyrus H. Gordon
Hebrew Myths by Robert Graves
The Hebrew Goddess by Raphael Patai
Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic by Frank Moore Cross
The Early History of God by Mark S. Smith and Patrick D. Miller
Yahweh's Wife: Sex in the Evolution of Monotheism by Arthur Frederick Ide
Witchcraft and Magic in Europe: Biblical and Pagan Societies by F. Cryer (Editor)
Cultic Practices and Worship
Semitic Magic: Its Origins & Development by R. Campbell Thompson
The Cultic Calendars of the Ancient Near East by Mark Cohen
Ritual and Cult at Ugarit by Dennis Pardee
Advanced Books
The Royal God: Enthronement Festivals in Ancient Israel and Ugarit by A. R. Petersen
Women in Ugarit and Israel by Hennie J. Marsman
The House of the Father As Fact and Symbol by J. David Schloen
Ritual in Narrative by David P. Wright
Cults of the Dead in Ancient Israel and Ugarit by Theodore J. Lewis
Philo of Byblos : The Phoenician History by Philo of Byblos
Ugaritic Religion by A. Caquot
Ugarit in Retrospect: 50 Years of Ugarit and Ugaritic by Gordon D. Young (Editor)
Eblaitica : Essays on the Ebla Archives by Rendsburg and Winter
The seasonal pattern in the Ugaritic myth of Baalu by Johannes Cornelis de Moor
Canaanite Religion: According to the Liturgical Texts of Ugarit by G. Del Olmo Lete
Handbook of Ugaritic Studies by Wilfred G. E. Watson
Blessing and Curse in Syro-Palestinian Inscriptions of the Iron Age by T. G. Crawford
Academic Articles
Canaanite God Reshep by William J. Fulco (American Orient Essays, No
Death and Afterlife in Ugarit and Israel. Smith, M.S., and Bloch-Smith, E. Journal of the American Oriental Society 108: 277-84. 1988
Off-Site Reading Lists / Bibliographies
Ugarit/Ras Shamra Bibliography:
http://www.ancientneareast.net/
Ugarit Selected Bibliography:
http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/ugarit/bibliogr.htm
Phoenicia: Bibliography:
http://phoenicia.org/bibliogr.html
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