10.8 Kingdom or Kings of Ugarit

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Ugarit is located on the Mediterranean coast in modern day Syria, almost exactly opposite the northeast tip of Crete .  Around the 8th millennium BCE, that is during the Neolithic or "pre-pottery period", people in the Levant (Syria/Palestine) started to group together and form a sedentary lifestyle...

 2nd millennium BCE, is known as the Kingdom or Kings of Ugarit period.

the city reached new economic heights under its eight different kings (Ammistamru I, Niqmaddu II, Arhalbu, Niqmepa, Ammistramu II, Ibiranu, Niqmaddu III and Ammurapi)

Reign	Names of the Kings
c. 1850	Niqmaddu I ?
c. 1825	Yaqarum I ? (The sequence of these two early kings may be reversed)
The early kings of Ugarit are known only from a heavily damaged tablet (KTU 1.113). The sequence and chronology are uncertain.
c. 1360	'Ammishtamru I
1360–1330	Niqmaddu II
1330–1324	'Arhalbu
1324–1274	Niqmepa
1274–1240	Amistamru II
1240–?	'Ibiranu
?–1225	Niqmaddu III
1225–1180	'Ammurapi

Preliminary Alignment of the Kings of Ugarit with the Hebrew Patriarchs

King of Ugarit	Biblical Name [Jubilees]	Reign Dates BC	Lived
	Shelah		1672–1605
Ibiranu I	Eber	?–1584	1655–1584
Ya'dur Addu		1584–?
Niqmepa II	Nahor ben Serug	?–1555	1594–1555
Ibiranu II	[Abram, husband of Nahor's sister]	1555–?
’Ammurapi I	Amraphel	?–1504	?–1504
Niqmepa III	Nahor ben Terah	1504–ca 1475	?
Ibiranu III	Abram ben Terah	ca 1475–1458	1545–1458
Niqmepa IV		1458–?	?
Ibiranu IV		?	?
Niqmaddu I		?	?
Yaqaru	Jacob	?–1400	1465–1392