You may have seen the announcement of our recent Ugaritic Library prepub, thought "Ugar-huh?" and clicked on to the next thing. That's probably what I would have done...if I hadn't been hearing some of the smarter people around here going on about Ugaritic lately.
Do you need to know what Ugaritic is, let alone add Ugaritic texts to your digital library? Dr. Heiser, academic editor for Logos Bible Software, wrote an article to tackle these questions. In it, Dr. Heiser calls his grad school class in Ugaritic a "life-changing course" and shares an observation, drawn directly from study of Ugaritic parallels, that he says holds "profound implications for the biblical theology of both testaments."
So give Dr. Heiser's article a read and I guarantee you'll at least learn something you didn't know about this ancient culture and its religion...and you might even be persuaded to launch your own study of Ugaritic texts in the original language or in English translations. The great news is that the Ugaritic Library has everything you need to get started!
Update 10/27/2006 - Thanks to the ESV Bible Blog for linking to this post and excerpting Mike's article.
See also - All in a Day's Work: Making an Ugaritic Font
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