Recherches sur les Phéniciens à Chypre by Olivier Masson; Maurice SznycerReview by: Dennis PardeeJournal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 96, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1976), p. 436Published by: American Oriental SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/599070 .

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and is sure to excite further examination of the problem. It is, in any case, refreshing to see the tradition-historical method applied to a given institution, and to see a some- what different result than that obtained by other methods.

DENNIS PARDEE UNIVERSITY OF CIIICAGO

Recherches sur les Pheniciens ei Chypre. By OLIVIER MASSON AND MIAURICE SZNYCER. Pp. 150, 22 plates. Centre de Recherches d'Eistoire et de Philologie de la IVe Section de l'1icole Pratique des I-Iautes I?tudes II: Hautes E1tudes Orientales. No. 3. Paris, Geneva: LIBRAIRIE DROZ. 1972. FF 66.40.

0. Masson, a classicist who has done miuch work on the Greek inscriptions from Cyprus, and M. Sznycer, a Semitist, have collaborated to assemble this collection of studies on fifty-one texts from Cyprus (the figure does not include incomplete studies of several other texts). The book is divided into four chapters: the first three deal with single inscriptions, the last is devoted to a series of short texts. Good photographs are provided for most of the texts (ten are unrepresented by photographs, all minor or non-Phoenician: IV 3; IV 8 D a; IV 8 bis; IV 12 B; IV 14 B d, e, g, h; IV 14 C). Though there are also some line-drawings, one should have been provided for each text-whlere the photograph is not clear, the reader is entitled to know at least what the authors thought they saw. Forty-eight of the texts are Phoenician, one has both Phoenician and syllabic Greek characters, one has only syllabic Greek characters, and another only Greek. The texts range in length from one letter (IV 14 B d, e, g) to twenty-nine lines (II = CIS I 86A-B = KAI 37A-B). Six of them were previously unpublished: III (I'smn'dn bn 'smn'dn skni sr " [Sarcophagus belong- ing to 'msnm'dn son of 'gimni'dIn, sokln of Tyre" [there is also another lamed just below the first one which is probably a stone-cutter's mistake]); IV 7 (four clear letters of uncertain reading); IV 11 (sb'l [proper name]); IV 12 E a (I'ms " [Belonging] to 'ms"); IV 16 ([...] yln bn 'bd [...]"... Ytn son of 'bd-..."); IV 17 (l'dnnzlk"[Belong- ing] to 'dnmlk").

This collection is surely to be welcomed, and warmly at that. It is difficult for one who is not a Phoenician specialist to keep tabs on the many minor texts published over the last century, and equally difficult to remain abreast of the secondary studies on these texts. Thus collections such as this one, with good photographs, philological discussion, and bibliographical references, are only to be received with satisfaction. On this level, however, one could only wish that this were a corpus of Cypriot Phoenician texts. With excavations in progress

and is sure to excite further examination of the problem. It is, in any case, refreshing to see the tradition-historical method applied to a given institution, and to see a some- what different result than that obtained by other methods.

DENNIS PARDEE UNIVERSITY OF CIIICAGO

Recherches sur les Pheniciens ei Chypre. By OLIVIER MASSON AND MIAURICE SZNYCER. Pp. 150, 22 plates. Centre de Recherches d'Eistoire et de Philologie de la IVe Section de l'1icole Pratique des I-Iautes I?tudes II: Hautes E1tudes Orientales. No. 3. Paris, Geneva: LIBRAIRIE DROZ. 1972. FF 66.40.

0. Masson, a classicist who has done miuch work on the Greek inscriptions from Cyprus, and M. Sznycer, a Semitist, have collaborated to assemble this collection of studies on fifty-one texts from Cyprus (the figure does not include incomplete studies of several other texts). The book is divided into four chapters: the first three deal with single inscriptions, the last is devoted to a series of short texts. Good photographs are provided for most of the texts (ten are unrepresented by photographs, all minor or non-Phoenician: IV 3; IV 8 D a; IV 8 bis; IV 12 B; IV 14 B d, e, g, h; IV 14 C). Though there are also some line-drawings, one should have been provided for each text-whlere the photograph is not clear, the reader is entitled to know at least what the authors thought they saw. Forty-eight of the texts are Phoenician, one has both Phoenician and syllabic Greek characters, one has only syllabic Greek characters, and another only Greek. The texts range in length from one letter (IV 14 B d, e, g) to twenty-nine lines (II = CIS I 86A-B = KAI 37A-B). Six of them were previously unpublished: III (I'smn'dn bn 'smn'dn skni sr " [Sarcophagus belong- ing to 'msnm'dn son of 'gimni'dIn, sokln of Tyre" [there is also another lamed just below the first one which is probably a stone-cutter's mistake]); IV 7 (four clear letters of uncertain reading); IV 11 (sb'l [proper name]); IV 12 E a (I'ms " [Belonging] to 'ms"); IV 16 ([...] yln bn 'bd [...]"... Ytn son of 'bd-..."); IV 17 (l'dnnzlk"[Belong- ing] to 'dnmlk").

This collection is surely to be welcomed, and warmly at that. It is difficult for one who is not a Phoenician specialist to keep tabs on the many minor texts published over the last century, and equally difficult to remain abreast of the secondary studies on these texts. Thus collections such as this one, with good photographs, philological discussion, and bibliographical references, are only to be received with satisfaction. On this level, however, one could only wish that this were a corpus of Cypriot Phoenician texts. With excavations in progress

and is sure to excite further examination of the problem. It is, in any case, refreshing to see the tradition-historical method applied to a given institution, and to see a some- what different result than that obtained by other methods.

DENNIS PARDEE UNIVERSITY OF CIIICAGO

Recherches sur les Pheniciens ei Chypre. By OLIVIER MASSON AND MIAURICE SZNYCER. Pp. 150, 22 plates. Centre de Recherches d'Eistoire et de Philologie de la IVe Section de l'1icole Pratique des I-Iautes I?tudes II: Hautes E1tudes Orientales. No. 3. Paris, Geneva: LIBRAIRIE DROZ. 1972. FF 66.40.

0. Masson, a classicist who has done miuch work on the Greek inscriptions from Cyprus, and M. Sznycer, a Semitist, have collaborated to assemble this collection of studies on fifty-one texts from Cyprus (the figure does not include incomplete studies of several other texts). The book is divided into four chapters: the first three deal with single inscriptions, the last is devoted to a series of short texts. Good photographs are provided for most of the texts (ten are unrepresented by photographs, all minor or non-Phoenician: IV 3; IV 8 D a; IV 8 bis; IV 12 B; IV 14 B d, e, g, h; IV 14 C). Though there are also some line-drawings, one should have been provided for each text-whlere the photograph is not clear, the reader is entitled to know at least what the authors thought they saw. Forty-eight of the texts are Phoenician, one has both Phoenician and syllabic Greek characters, one has only syllabic Greek characters, and another only Greek. The texts range in length from one letter (IV 14 B d, e, g) to twenty-nine lines (II = CIS I 86A-B = KAI 37A-B). Six of them were previously unpublished: III (I'smn'dn bn 'smn'dn skni sr " [Sarcophagus belong- ing to 'msnm'dn son of 'gimni'dIn, sokln of Tyre" [there is also another lamed just below the first one which is probably a stone-cutter's mistake]); IV 7 (four clear letters of uncertain reading); IV 11 (sb'l [proper name]); IV 12 E a (I'ms " [Belonging] to 'ms"); IV 16 ([...] yln bn 'bd [...]"... Ytn son of 'bd-..."); IV 17 (l'dnnzlk"[Belong- ing] to 'dnmlk").

This collection is surely to be welcomed, and warmly at that. It is difficult for one who is not a Phoenician specialist to keep tabs on the many minor texts published over the last century, and equally difficult to remain abreast of the secondary studies on these texts. Thus collections such as this one, with good photographs, philological discussion, and bibliographical references, are only to be received with satisfaction. On this level, however, one could only wish that this were a corpus of Cypriot Phoenician texts. With excavations in progress

on the island, a corpus would before long be incomplete, but it would nonetheless be an extremely useful tool. The "Liste inus6ographique et bibliographique" on pp. 133-35 does provide a catalogue of the Cypriot Phoc- nician texts still on Cyprus (i.e., it is not a complete catalogue of texts). And on p. 10 the authors promise a second book, to be devoted to the inscriptions from Lar- naka-tis-Lapithou. It is to be hoped that a corpus will eventually develop trom these researches.

DENNIS PARDEE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. By PATRICK 1). MILLER, JR. Pp. 279, incl. Ugaritic, Biblical, Author and Subject indices. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 5. Cambridge: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1973.

This is a much updated version of a 1963 Harvard dissertation, written under Frank I. Cross, and shows his strong influence on the themes discussed, the style of Ugaritic and Hebrew text criticism, and the general conclusions. Part One discusses divine warfare in Syria- Palestine, using Ugaritic material and Sanchuniathon as sources. Individual topics are the nature and role of the "divine asseimbly," and Ba'al, 'Anat and El as divine warriors. Miller delineates the divine-warrior pattern in West Semitic thought, and establishes the range of vocabulary and symbols that are associated witli it.

Miller attempts to demonstrate-not altogether con- vincingly in my opinion-that the "quiescent" image of El that emerges from the Ugaritic texts is misleading, and that Sanchuniathon's depiction of El as a more central, warrior god is probably more to be trusted.

Part Two exposes the theme "The Cosmic War and I oly War in Israel." A general comparison is made with the Ugaritic texts previously discussed, and individual OTpassages are taken up: Deut. 33, Jgs. 5, Ps. 68, Ex. 15, Hab. 3, II Sam. 22, Josh. 10, and several later pericopes. The difficult and early poetic passages are frequently presented in their "recanaanitized" form. This often makes sense of otherwise hopeless cola, but the approach seems sometimes to involve rather circular reasoning- one invariably finds just the meaning one was looking for to prove a particular thesis.

In his "Concluding Implications," Miller suggests that several other OT themes need to be reexamined in light of the divine-warrior theme: salvation, judgment, king- ship. One of the most valuable contributions of this monograph is the enriched insight it gives into the imagery of theophany passages in the OT.

Despite possible reservations about the methodology employed in individual cases, the overall argument of

on the island, a corpus would before long be incomplete, but it would nonetheless be an extremely useful tool. The "Liste inus6ographique et bibliographique" on pp. 133-35 does provide a catalogue of the Cypriot Phoc- nician texts still on Cyprus (i.e., it is not a complete catalogue of texts). And on p. 10 the authors promise a second book, to be devoted to the inscriptions from Lar- naka-tis-Lapithou. It is to be hoped that a corpus will eventually develop trom these researches.

DENNIS PARDEE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. By PATRICK 1). MILLER, JR. Pp. 279, incl. Ugaritic, Biblical, Author and Subject indices. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 5. Cambridge: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1973.

This is a much updated version of a 1963 Harvard dissertation, written under Frank I. Cross, and shows his strong influence on the themes discussed, the style of Ugaritic and Hebrew text criticism, and the general conclusions. Part One discusses divine warfare in Syria- Palestine, using Ugaritic material and Sanchuniathon as sources. Individual topics are the nature and role of the "divine asseimbly," and Ba'al, 'Anat and El as divine warriors. Miller delineates the divine-warrior pattern in West Semitic thought, and establishes the range of vocabulary and symbols that are associated witli it.

Miller attempts to demonstrate-not altogether con- vincingly in my opinion-that the "quiescent" image of El that emerges from the Ugaritic texts is misleading, and that Sanchuniathon's depiction of El as a more central, warrior god is probably more to be trusted.

Part Two exposes the theme "The Cosmic War and I oly War in Israel." A general comparison is made with the Ugaritic texts previously discussed, and individual OTpassages are taken up: Deut. 33, Jgs. 5, Ps. 68, Ex. 15, Hab. 3, II Sam. 22, Josh. 10, and several later pericopes. The difficult and early poetic passages are frequently presented in their "recanaanitized" form. This often makes sense of otherwise hopeless cola, but the approach seems sometimes to involve rather circular reasoning- one invariably finds just the meaning one was looking for to prove a particular thesis.

In his "Concluding Implications," Miller suggests that several other OT themes need to be reexamined in light of the divine-warrior theme: salvation, judgment, king- ship. One of the most valuable contributions of this monograph is the enriched insight it gives into the imagery of theophany passages in the OT.

Despite possible reservations about the methodology employed in individual cases, the overall argument of

on the island, a corpus would before long be incomplete, but it would nonetheless be an extremely useful tool. The "Liste inus6ographique et bibliographique" on pp. 133-35 does provide a catalogue of the Cypriot Phoc- nician texts still on Cyprus (i.e., it is not a complete catalogue of texts). And on p. 10 the authors promise a second book, to be devoted to the inscriptions from Lar- naka-tis-Lapithou. It is to be hoped that a corpus will eventually develop trom these researches.

DENNIS PARDEE

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The Divine Warrior in Early Israel. By PATRICK 1). MILLER, JR. Pp. 279, incl. Ugaritic, Biblical, Author and Subject indices. Harvard Semitic Monographs, 5. Cambridge: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS. 1973.

This is a much updated version of a 1963 Harvard dissertation, written under Frank I. Cross, and shows his strong influence on the themes discussed, the style of Ugaritic and Hebrew text criticism, and the general conclusions. Part One discusses divine warfare in Syria- Palestine, using Ugaritic material and Sanchuniathon as sources. Individual topics are the nature and role of the "divine asseimbly," and Ba'al, 'Anat and El as divine warriors. Miller delineates the divine-warrior pattern in West Semitic thought, and establishes the range of vocabulary and symbols that are associated witli it.

Miller attempts to demonstrate-not altogether con- vincingly in my opinion-that the "quiescent" image of El that emerges from the Ugaritic texts is misleading, and that Sanchuniathon's depiction of El as a more central, warrior god is probably more to be trusted.

Part Two exposes the theme "The Cosmic War and I oly War in Israel." A general comparison is made with the Ugaritic texts previously discussed, and individual OTpassages are taken up: Deut. 33, Jgs. 5, Ps. 68, Ex. 15, Hab. 3, II Sam. 22, Josh. 10, and several later pericopes. The difficult and early poetic passages are frequently presented in their "recanaanitized" form. This often makes sense of otherwise hopeless cola, but the approach seems sometimes to involve rather circular reasoning- one invariably finds just the meaning one was looking for to prove a particular thesis.

In his "Concluding Implications," Miller suggests that several other OT themes need to be reexamined in light of the divine-warrior theme: salvation, judgment, king- ship. One of the most valuable contributions of this monograph is the enriched insight it gives into the imagery of theophany passages in the OT.

Despite possible reservations about the methodology employed in individual cases, the overall argument of

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