Singer I. The Calm Before the Storm: Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the End of the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant

Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. — 766 p. — (Writings from the Ancient World Supplement; No 1). — ISBN: 978-1-58983-558-0.In a career spanning nearly four decades, more than thirty of them as Professor of Hittitology in the Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures at Tel Aviv University, Itamar Singer has had a profound impact on the field of ancient Near Eastern studies, and Hittite studies in particular. His wide-ranging contributions have nowhere been more deeply felt than in the historical reconstruction of the international affairs of the thirteenth century B.C.E. - the end of the Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean. The essays collected in this volume are a testament to the impact of his research on understanding Hatti's diplomatic relations with the other great powers in this critical period of human history and on elucidating the complex dynamics that led to the disintegration of the Hittite Empire.Introduction. The Thirteenth Century b.c.e., the Age of Complacency.
Hittite Domination in Syria.
Syria after the Battle of Qadesh.
A Political History of Ugarit.
Takuḫlinu and Ḫaya: Two Governors in the Ugarit. Letter from Tel Aphek.
Ships Bound for Lukka: A New Interpretation of the Companion Letters RS 94.2530 and RS 94.2523
A Concise History of Amurru.
The “Land of Amurru” and the “Lands of Amurru” in the Šaušgamuwa Treaty.
Hittite Cultural Influence in the Kingdom of Amurru.
The Title “Great Princess” in the Hittite Empire.
The Treaties between Hatti and Amurru.
MaḪḪaza, King of Amurru.
A New Hittite Letter from Emar.
Borrowing Seals at Emar.
A Late Synchronism between Ugarit and Emar (with Yoram Cohen).
The Treaties between Karkamiš and Hatti.
The Great Scribe Taki-Šarruma.
A Lost Seal of Talmi-Tešub.
Ḫatti and Mesopotamia.
The Battle of Niḫriya and the End of the Hittite Empire.
A Hittite–Assyrian Diplomatic Exchange in the Late-Thirteenth Century B.C.E.
KBo 28.61–64 and the Struggle over the Throne of Babylon at the Turn of the Thirteenth Century b.c.e.
Ḫatti and the West.
Western Anatolia in the Thirteenth Century b.c.e. according to the Hittite Sources.
Purple-Dyers in Lazpa.
Aḫḫiyawans Bearing Gifts.
Ḫatti and Egypt.
The Kuruštama Treaty Revisited.
The Urḫi-Teššub Affair in the Hittite–Egyptian Correspondence.
Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission.
Ḫatti and Canaan.
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited.
A Hittite Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Tel Aphek.
Megiddo Mentioned in a Letter from BoǦazköy.
A Hittite Seal from Megiddo.
A Hittite Signet Ring from Tel Nami.
Two Hittite Ring Seals from Southern Canaan.
From Zenith to Nadir: The Last Century of the Hittite Kingdom.
The Failed Reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli.
From Ḫattuša to Tarḫuntašša : Some Thoughts on Muwatalli’s Reign.
The Toponyms Tiwa and Tawa.
The Fate of Ḫattuša during the Period of Tarḫuntašša’s Supremacy.
Danuḫepa and Kurunta.
Great Kings of Tarḫuntašša.
Dating the End of the Hittite Empire.
New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire.
“In Ḫattuša the Royal House Declined”: Royal Mortuary Cult in Thirteenth-Century Ḫatti.
On Luwians and Hittites.
Epilogue.
Between Scepticism and Credulity: In Defence of Hittite Historiography.