From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright 1/3/1999, all rights reserved Ugaritic Writing As time passed a totally different form of alphabetic writing assumed great importance during 1800-1400 B.C., namely the cuneiform alphabet associated with Ras Shamra, or Ugarit. The Ugaritic from the Ras Shamra Tablets have shed much light on the meaning of the Hebrew Bible.