Editing Sukkot (section)

==Academic views==
De Moor has suggested that there are links between Sukkot and the [[Ugarit]]ic New Year festival, in particular the Ugaritic custom of erecting two rows of huts built of branches on the temple roof as temporary dwelling houses for their gods.<ref>{{cite book |title=New Year with Canaanites and Israelites |first=Johannes Cornelis |last=De Moor |year=1972 |publisher=Kok |pages=6–7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Origin and Transformation of the Ancient Israelite Festival Calendar |first=Jan A. |last=Wagenaar |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |year=2005 |page=156 |isbn=9783447052498}}</ref>

Some have pointed out that the original [[Thanksgiving]] holiday had many similarities with Sukkot in the Bible.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thanksgiving's Sukkot Roots |url=https://jewishjournal.com/culture/lifestyle/celebrations_simchas/8736/ |date=20 November 2003 |access-date=29 September 2019 |first=Linda |last=Morel |publisher=Jewish Journal}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Did Sukkot Shape Thanksgiving? |url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2013/09/17/did-sukkot-shape-thanksgiving/ |date=17 September 2013 |access-date=29 September 2019 |first=Robert |last=Gluck}}</ref>