Using the example of Ugarit, the contributions show the transregional relationships of a North-Syrian metropolis in the 2nd half of the 2nd millennium BC, which concerned not only the economic level, but also testify to an exchange on a cultural and religious level, in which different languages ​​and traditions were not dividing but could stimulate one another. In addition to the many important individual aspects that the contributions deal with (in addition to mythical-epic traditions, the areas of wisdom and administration), the volume also sheds light on the exciting question of the relationship between local and transregional traditions, as they are particularly evident in the legacy of the elites of the time.

Ingo Kottsieper / Hans Neumann: Vorwort

Otto Kaiser: Ras Schamra / Ugarit. Ein spätbronzezeitliches Königreich als Schnittpunkt der ostmediterranen Kulturen

Noga Ayali-Darshan: KTU 1.2 in its Context and in Relation to Extra-Ugaritic Parallels. A Reevaluation

Yoram Cohen: Mesopotamian Wisdom Compositions in Ugarit and the “Western Periphery”

Susanne Görke: Elemente hethitischer und hurritischer Mythologie in Ugarit

Ingo Kottsieper: El und das Alphabet. Erwägungen zum Einfluss des Südens auf die Traditionen Ugarits

Giovanni Mazzini: The ṣmd-Weapon of Baal in the Light of the Classical Arabic Sources and the Modern Folklore of the Arabian Peninsula

Reinhard Müller / Clemens Steinberger: Ein himmlischer Betrugsversuch und seine Entlarvung. Edition und narratologische Untersuchung von KTU 1.17 VI

Takayoshi M. Oshima: Possible Allusion to Marduk’s Rise to the Supremacy in the Babylonian Marduk Prayer found at Ugarit (RS 94. 2498)

Juan-Pablo Vita: Administrative Texts in Ugarit between Tradition and Innovation Analysis of Two Instances

Wilfred G. E. Watson: The Ugaritian Poets as Inheritors, Transmitters, Transformers and Innovators

Paolo Xella: Mythological Traditions from Late Bronze Age Ugarit to the Levant (Phoenicia) in the 1st Millennium BCE