RARE collection of Biblical studies by Yitzhak Avishur, professor of Hebrew Language at the University of Haifa. Of 12 chapters in this book, only one was published in English (in 1988), and about half the chapters are translations from Hebrew, and the other half are studies unpublished before. In part I the author discuses two main aspects of Biblical narrative research: the literary structure of the narrative, and the Canaanite, and to some extent Babylonian, background of the tales and the motifs in them. In part II the literary formulae common to the Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Literature in general and to Ugaritic Literature in particular are discussed. 230x160mm. 375 pages. Gilt hardcover. In good condition.