"A traveler by moonlight"
One of the most important Hungarian novels of the modern era, penned by one of the great Hungarian and European novelists alike, Szerb Antal, the famous author, novelist, translator and literary historian. This novel was published in its first Hungarian edition in 1937, achieving success at the local, international and global levels, and was turned into cinematic films, plays and serials. A novel that delves into the analysis of the human psyche, where the hero tries hard to return to the past through the time machine, and to complete his enjoyment of his youth away from marriage, but to no avail. Man does this, his destiny is written, and he must live it. The hero of our novel, Mihai, tries to escape from his married life, but the end of the novel is where it began. The novel ends with this sentence, “As long as man lives, something will inevitably and always happen,” along with other details.
It is rare today that we do not find in explanations and comments on the book of the Old Testament multiple references to archaeological sites, such as Qumran near the Dead Sea and Ugarit on the Syrian coast near the city of Latakia. The Qumran site has become a well-known name to some extent, while the site of Ugarit, which is no less important, did not enjoy the fame that Qumran enjoyed, even though its discovery contributed greatly to re-translating and interpreting many of the words and passages of the Old Testament. This is what prompted me to write this small book that examines the civilization of the ancient city of Ugarit and its legacy. Ugarit was one of many cities that filled the world of the Bible, but its importance lies in the wealth of literary texts that added a lot to our information about the world of the Bible, to a degree that exceeded what any other archaeological site in the eastern Mediterranean provided, and helped fill the gaps between the world. The ancient and modern world.
