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Ugaritic has been grouped with Amorite, Canaanite, Arabic and Old South Arabic. It has even been considered early Hebrew or early Phoenician or has been seen as a separate Northwest Semitic language distinct from Canaanite and Aramaic. Nevertheless, neither general acceptance nor satisfactory classification has been firmly established. The process of searching and investigating all the possible Canaanite correspondences for 2254 Ugaritic lexemes has lead to the emergence of our lexicon, which contains 1643 certain and uncertain lexemes (1302 + 341) In other words, of 2254 lexemes only 1643 have been found with certain and uncertain Canaanite cognates.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49849542082833,"sku":"CIN0977282732G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50145837777169,"sku":"CIN0977282732VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50503862812945,"sku":"GOR013975733","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0977282732.jpg?v=1751203034"},{"product_id":"faces-of-the-living-dead-book-martyn-jolly-9780712348997","title":"Faces of the Living Dead","description":"\"Faces of the Living Dead\" examines the evolution and photographic techniques of spirit photography - the craze for photographing 'spirits', which was rooted in the popularity of Spiritualism and psychic research during the period from the 1870s to the 1930s. Subsequently proved to be fakes, the appearance of ghostly figures, spirit writing and ectoplasm in these photographs were, to the contemporary viewer, a miracle and an important means of contact with lost loved ones; a pertinent message as post-First-World-War grief swept Europe. Spirit photographers became celebrities, sought after by grieving individuals, and reviled by others as shameless frauds, preying on vulnerable people for their own gain. With several high-profile advocates, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, himself a spiritual evangelist, spirit photography was a powerful, contentious and sensational phenomenon of its time. 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