“... A Daily Rite from Ugarit (and Related Sacrificial Texts). The twin sites of Ras Shamra and Ras Ibn Hani—ancient Ugarit—have yielded an interesting corpus of almost one hundred ritual texts (see Pardee 2000). There is only one text from the site that may provide the daily rite of a temple in the city. It was the very first tablet recovered from Ugarit (RS 1.001 = KTU 1.39), distinguished from all oth- ers because it prescribes a one-day ceremony. The text prescribes a series of day- time and nighttime sacrifices to various deities. Although certain deities, such as Baal, appear in both the daytime and nighttime lists, there is a clear relationship between the times of day and the deities involved. Specifically, the nighttime sac- rifices are directed toward the deities one would expect, such as chthonic deities, gods of fertility, and nocturnal gods such as Yarihu (the moon god) and Sapii- Pagri (the sun as it passed through the underworld). Various types of offerings are listed, but modern scholars do not entirely understand the terminology. The offerings begin with an initial sequence of t‘-sacrifices for the god El, which were perhaps a type of atonement offering akin to the Hebrew htft (“sin/purification 5.1. Sacred Space: Cult Statues, Temple Construction, Temple Rites, and Topographic Texts 153 offering”). The remaining sacrifices were burnt offerings (perhaps like the He- brew ‘lh) as well as “peace offerings” (slm), which were, like their Hebrew coun- terparts, communal sacrifices in which the gods and offerers shared a ritual meal from the meat of the sacrifice. Grain offerings were also included, but no liba- tions are mentioned. At the conclusion of the rites, the prescriptions direct the priests to “descend from the altars.” There are obvious parallels between KTU 1.39 and the Hebrew tamid (see Num 28:1-8), which prescribed morning and evening sacrifices of meat, grain, and drink to Yahweh. ...”