دانلود کتاب The Legacy of Canaan: The Ras Shamra Texts and Their Relevance to the Old Testament

The author's studies in the Ras Shamra Texts date from 1936, when as Blackie Travelling Fellow of Edinburgh University his interest in them was engaged in the library of l'École Biblique de St. Étienne inJ erusalem. At that time the historical interpretation of certain of the longer texts had not been seriously questioned, and many striking but hasty conclusions had been drawn after M. Charles Virolleaud's prompt publication of the texts. Our initial reserve has been confirmed by subsequent critical study. No longer can we find any specific reference to the fathers of the historical Hebrews or to particular localities in Palestine. The texts, however, are most valuable as documenting the life and culture of Canaan on the eve of the Hebrew settlement, and it is in the belief that they are vitally relevant to the understanding of the Old Testament that we present this study.

The publishers' request for a second edition of The Legacy of Canaan has given the writer the welcome opportunity to develop certain themes, on which he had previously only touched, and to declare more firmly on certain problems, which he was obliged to leave open in the first edition.