Reddit reviews Canaanite Myths and Legends (Academic Paperback)

You can get a decent high level overview from [the article on the Ancient Canaanite religion from wikipedia] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Canaanite_religion)

An extensive review of the Canaanite religion is available in "Canaanite Myths and Legends"

a shorter review of the topic is available in "The Ancient Canaanites: A Captivating Guide to the Canaanite Civilization That Dominated the Land of Canaan Before the Ancient Israelites"

another good (and extensive) overview of how the Canaanite religion shaped early Judaism "The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel"

> First of all, I was giving you the course as an half-joke, if you go and really learn Ugaritic, you're absolutely badass!

Well, I don't know if I'll have the time, but you're giving me the motivation for it! (Should I study basic hebrew first?)

Anyway, I'll probably just study the very basics, I just want to know what the ugaritic religious texts say, with numbering, of course. The judeochristian Bible has billions of copies worldwide; why can't we have an ugaritic "bible"? :(

Anyway I think I found another copy of the Ugaritic religious texts: "Canaanite Myths and Legends", by JCL Gibson, it's $32 from Amazon.

> That said, I suppose all human languages are somehow "ambiguous". Prepositions are a classical example of this, as you've seen in Ugaritic, but also in English "to", "on" etc. convey a lot of meanings depending on the verbs involved.

Yes, but some languages are less ambiguous than others. For example, spanish has the words "ser" and "estar", which both are translated to the verb "to be", but have two distinct meanings: "Ser" means something that the subject has always been, like "this is a chair". "Estar" refers to a temporary state, like "this chair is broken", or "I'm busy right now" (so the joke "I'm happy; Hello happy!" does not apply). On the other side of the coin, English has very specific possessives : "His / her" to differenciate the ownership, while spanish only has "su" in the case of third person. But spanish adds the singular plural of the object: "sus posesiones" = "his/her possessions".

But I digress.

EDIT: Wow, I never thought there was a name for the idea I presented! I looked at wikipedia's Linguistic_relativity page, and it's awesome. Also, Lojban is a pretty badass language. I'm sure that's a language that Vulcans would use :)

EDIT 2: Grammar