Ras Shamra

[rahs sham-ruh]

noun

1. a locality in W Syria, near the Mediterranean Sea: site of ancient Ugarit; many archaeologically important objects dating to the Bronze Age.

Example Sentences

Dahood, a professor of Ugaritic at Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute, draws on the Ras Shamra discoveries to correct and sometimes drastically change a number of obscure and, so he believes, previously misinterpreted passages in Psalms.

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In his introduction, Dahood says that Schaeffer has unearthed such an embarrassment of riches that "one finds scholars debating in learned journals whether Ras Shamra or Qumran has contributed more to an understanding of the Old Testament."

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