Shirly Natan-Yulzary

Beit Belt Academic college Israel & Gordon College of Education Israel · Bible studies

Asherah’s Ornamented Bowl and Table (KTU 1.4 I 38-43)* Shirly Natan-Yulzary Abstract: The article examines a passage from The Baal Cycle, specifically where the gifts prepared by the god Kuṯaru-wa-Ḫasisu for ˀAṯiratu, at Baˁlu’s request, are described (KTU 1.4.i.20–22). The description concludes with a detailed account of the special decorations o...

The Image of God in Isa 63:1–6 Shirly Nathan-Yulazri Abstract: The article discusses the prophecy of Isaiah 63:1-6 which deals with the redemption of Israel and vengeance on the nations. In this prophecy, several metaphors fuse together into a "metaphorical cluster." Each represents God in a different image: he is presented as a warrior, as a harv...

Reading Ugaritic narrative poetry requires sensitivity to the text’s poetic structures as well as recognition of the way it is shaped by the art of narration and its poetics. By taking a close look at the first part of the Epic of Kirta (Kirta's expedition to Udum), this article presents and illustrates the conventions for reading that afford us th...

Baal and the Politics of Poetry. By Aaron Tugendhaft. The Ancient Word. London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. xviii + 165, illus. $140.

review book Natan-Yulzary, S. “Book Review: Noga Ayali-Darshan, Treading on the Back of the Sea: The Combat between the Storm-god and the Sea in Ancient Near Eastern Literature (The Biblical Encyclopedia Library 33) Jerusalem: Bialik Institute 2016.” Beit Mikra 64/2 (2019): 341–357 (in Hebrew)

The goddess Asherah is designated as ‘Lady of the Sea’ several times in the Baal Cycle. In this papre I will focus on the description of Asherah in KTU 1.4, ii, and propose a new reading for a few of its passages. Until now scholars have assumed, based on the reading of column ii, that Asherah is a goddess who represents women and women’s domestic...

In the Baal Cycle we encounter passages that depict objects of enormous size or fabulous dimensions and describe episodes of astounding scope. For example, in Baal's victory feast (KTU 1.3 i 2-28) a goblet of wine is described as a large vessel "great to behold" (ʿẓm.ri; line 12). The description of the cup’s size extends over four bicolons (KTU 1....

This is the abstract of the lecture presented at the IM SBL, Helsinki, 2018. The article will be published in AuOr 2020. The goddess Asherah is designated as ‘Lady of the Sea’ several times in the Baal Cycle. In this lecture I will focus on the description of Asherah in KTU 1.4, ii, and propose a new reading for a few of its passages. Until now sc...

Go to full-text in: https://poj.peeters-leuven.be/content.php?url=issue&journal_code=BIOR&issue=5&vol=75 The interpretation to CAT 1.19, col. i, 42-46 that should be accepted is that Danel is actually offering a brief prayer, after which the poet-narrator (or performer) interrupts the story’s chronological sequence to reveal to his audience that t...

Ugaritic epic poetry is characterized by various types of repetition. A considerable part of these repetitions derive from the formulaic character of Ugaritic epic literature. Other repetitions belong to the field of narrative construction, as in the Bible. The modern scholar who reads Aqhat will encounter the type of repetition knows as ‘resumptiv...

המאמר מתאר התנסות ראשונה של שימוש בפייסבוק להוראת התנ"ך. חומות החינוך נפלו ברשת? מורים, תלמידים ורשתות חברתיות. עורכים: ברוך שוורץ, חננאל רוזנברג, קריסטה אסטרחן על הספר: הרשתות החברתיות - והמדיה החברתית בכללותה - יצרו מהפכה של ממש במרחב הדיגיטלי. ערוצים אלה מאפשרים תקשורת אינטראקטיבית, שוויונית, לעיתים גם אינטימית, המאתגרת מבנים חברתיים, גבולות תרב...

המאמר מתאר מיזם העושה שימוש בפייסבוק ככלי להבאת הדיון בתנ"ך ובפרשנותו אל קדמת הבמה. המיזם גם עושה שימוש בפייסבוק ככלי הוראה מתוקשב וכמעטפת ליצירת דיון ועניין בתחום דעת זה. בקרב החברה הבוגרת אכן נוצר עקב כך שיח מרתק. בהתנסות בהוראה עם תלמידים נמצא שכלי זה מעודד תלמידים חלשים, אבל בניגוד להתנסות עם החברה הבוגרת, בהתנסות עם תלמידים הגיעו הסטודנטים למס...

המאמר דן ביום השביתה במקרא, מזה"ק, הדתות המונותיאסטיות ומדינת ישראל https://mikranet.cet.ac.il/pages/item.asp?item=23399&source=3878 פורסם במפגשי תרבות 1, ו-2 וכן במקראנט

Creating contrast between different elements in the narrative is one of the Ugaritic poet’s main poetic devices. This literary tool is employed to encourage the audience to elicit and produce narrative meaning. In ʾAqhat it is a prominent technique, abundant in the lexical make up and stylistic texture of the narrative, in its content, as well as i...

תיאור התנסות ראשונה של הוראת תנ"ך באמצעות הפייסבוק

Through a literary reading and analysis of the roles of the main characters in the extant text I come to the conclusion that Anat was punished for murdering Aqhat, though it is not expressed explicitly. Since she is a goddess she cannot be subject to retribution. But from a literary point of view, the narrator responds to the event of the murder, a...

Through a literary reading and analysis of the roles of the main characters in the extant text I come to the conclusion that Anat was punished for murdering Aqhat, though it is not expressed explicitly. Since she is a goddess she cannot be subject to retribution. But from a literary point of view, the narrator responds to the event of the murder, a...

The main goal of this paper is to achieve a better understanding of the epics of Kirta and Aqhat, by attending to their literary dimension, and especially to the topic of characterization. This subject has not yet received the attention that it deserves, and the present study is intended to partially fill this gap. In addition, the literary-histori...