JANET TAMAREN
“There is nothing new under the sun.”—Ecclesiastes 1:9
All About Me
Janet Tamaren is a retired physician. She practiced in rural Kentucky for twenty years. She now lives in Denver with her husband. She has three children and two grandchildren. She enjoys writing and has written two books: a memoir about doctoring and a study guide to stories from the Hebrew Bible. She started writing this book about Ugarit during COVID lockdown. “This book is about another time and place where global trade networks came to a screeching halt, where a high-level civilization was threatened (and experienced) collapse. A time three thousand years ago: before the time of the Greeks and before the stories of the Hebrew Bible.”
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UBARIT: TALES FROM A LOST CITY is a fictional narrative based on historical sources.
Set in a bustling and multicultural trade mecca, UGARIT is a captivating tale of bravery in the face of heartbreak and upheaval. It takes place in spring 1190 BCE—over three thousand years ago, along the shores of the eastern Mediterranean.
Yoninah is a healer. She dispenses herbs and magical amulets to those seeking relief from pain of body or soul. A handsome Mycenean enters her life, a soldier from the Trojan War, and reawakens old feelings.
Thut-Moses, a scribe trained in Egypt, is advisor to the King. The city enters a perilous time when the King receives word of foreign invaders attacking seaports along the Mediterranean.
With the increasing danger to their beloved city, can Yoninah find the courage to take her daughters and leave the only home they have ever known? Can Thut-Moses find the wisdom to advise a king confounded by all the threats facing him and his kingdom?
Experience the upheavals that confronted not only Ugarit but other cities as well, throughout the ancient Mediterranean, as the cosmopolitan civilizations of the late Bronze Age came to a tumultuous end.
UGARIT draws from newly-translated tablets found in the ruins of the city. Epics and poems survived through the millennia only because libraries of cuneiform tablets – incised into clay – were fired and thereby preserved in the heat of the final cataclysm.
