Moshe David Cassuto (1883-1951), one of the greatest biblical commentators of his time, studied the history of the Jewish people and language and laid the foundation for understanding Ugaritic texts and their link to the biblical text. Researchers of the bible and the Ancient Near East will undoubtedly find Cassuto’s essays fascinating, as they reveal his original approach to biblical research. The essays open up new horizons in the field of Ancient Near East cultures, stressing the bible as the nucleus of the Jewish nation.
This second volume offers essays first published by the author in European languages in 1910-1949 and translated to Hebrew after his death.