Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2003. — xxiv+396 p. — ISBN: 1-57506-079-5. A tribute to America's preeminent scholar of Hittite language and culture, Professor Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The thirty-four contributors, students, and colleagues treat topics as diverse as Hittite contacts with the Mycenaean Greeks, the...
Atlanta, Georgia: Scholars Press, 1996. — 206 p. — (Writings from the ancient world; v. 7). — ISBN: 0-7885-0153-4. This work presents full translations of more than 50 documents from the files of the "foreign office" of the Hittite Empire: 21 treaties, 18 diplomatic letters, and 18 royal edicts and miscellaneous records concerning the relations of the Hittites with their...
Society of Biblical Literature, 2011. — 320 p. — (Writings from the Ancient World, Book 28). Twenty-six texts found in the Hittite capital of Hattusa dating from the fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. contain references to a land known as "Ahhiyawa", which most scholars now identify with the Late Bronze Age Mycenaean world. The subject of continuing study and controversy...
Arnhem, 2016. — 82 p. — ISBN: 978-90-820497-3-2. The will of the king usually determined the royal succession in the kingdom of Hatti, when this process was not thrown into disorder by conspiracy or murder. Nevertheless the family relationship of the heir with the Tawananna seems to be very important. Traditions and cult have influenced the will of the king. In historical and...
Arnhem, 2013. — 145 p. — (Anatolia in the Bronze Age). — ISBN: 978-90-820497-0-1. The city Hattusa was rebuild in the end of 17th century BC, and the Old Hittite Kingdom was constructed. Violent conflicts in the royal family started already at the reign of the first Hittite King about 1700 BC. Some intriguing questions about the start of the multilingual kingdom in Central...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 312 p. — ISBN 0-19-924170-8. In dealing with a wide range of aspects of the life, activities, and customs of the Late Bronze Age Hittite world, this book complements the treatment of Hittite military and political history presented by the author in The Kingdom of the Hittites (O.U.P., 1998). Through quotations from the original sources and...
Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. – 575 p. ISBN 0-19-927908-x 978-0-19-927908-1 (hbk) ISBN 0-19-928132-7 978-0-19-928132-9 (pbk) In the 14th century BC the Hittites became the supreme political and military power in the Near East. How did they achieve their supremacy? How successful were they in maintaining it? What brought about their collapse and...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. — ISBN 978-0-19-921872-1. In the early 12th century, the Late Bronze Age Hittite empire collapsed during a series of upheavals which swept the Greek and Near Eastern worlds. In the subsequent Iron Age, numerous cities and states emerged in south-eastern Anatolia and northern Syria, which are generally known today as the "Neo-Hittite...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 304 p. The Hittites in the Late Bronze Age became the mightiest military power in the Ancient Near East. Yet their empire was always vulnerable to destruction by enemy forces; their Anatolian homeland occupied a remote region, with no navigable rivers; and they were cut off from the sea. Perhaps most seriously, they suffered chronic under-population and...
The Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 415 p. ISBN: 0810849364. Less well known than civilizations in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the Hittites nonetheless created one of the great civilizations of the ancient world. It was no mean feat to rule a vast empire, establish important cities, preside over a conglomerate of peoples, encourage a flowering of culture and religion and, yes, engage in...
Society of Biblical Literature Press, 2018. — 538 p. An innovative translation and analysis of Hittite local festivals and of their economic and social dimensions. This English translation of the Hittite cult inventories provides a vivid portrait of the religion, economy, and administration of Bronze Age provincial towns and villages of the Hittite Empire. These texts report...
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. — 292 p. The author of the acclaimed "Gods, Graves, and Scholars" tells the dramatic tale of the Hittites, an Indo-European people who became a dominant power in the Middle East. Their struggle in Egypt with Ramses II for control of Syria led to one of the greatest battles of the ancient world. The fall of the Hittite empire was sudden, and...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. – 271 p. – (Archaeology and Biblical Studies. №7). ISBN: 978-1-58983-296-1 (paper binding: alk. paper) Lost to history for millennia, the Hittites have regained their position among the great civilizations of the Late Bronze Age Near East, thanks to a century of archaeological discovery and philological investigation. The Hittites...
London: Oxford University Press, 1920. — 94 p. "These lectures were delivered in December 1918, but their publication has been delayed partly owing to difficulties about the strange characters, and partly owing to my other occupations. Nos. I and II now appear substantially as delivered; No. III has been somewhat expanded, and gives the main results of my own attempts at the...
Proceedings of the International Conference in Honour of Franca Pecchioli Daddi: Florence, February 6th-8th 2014. — Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2015. — 170 p. — (Studia Asiana; 9). — ISBN: 978-88-6655-903-0 (print), ISBN: 978-88-6655-904-7 (online). This book contains studies on the symbolic significance of the landscape for the communities inhabiting the central...
Peeters Publishers, 2011, 340 p. Hitherto, research on the Hittites has been highly specialised and often separated by discipline: history, philology and archaeology (in which natural sciences are taking a more prominent role). Unfortunately, no up-to-date publication has been available to bring the work and evidence of these different fields together, making it extremely...
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018. — 92 p. — (Captivating History). Many people might recognize their name from several stories in the Christian Bible, but the Hittites also had an entire culture and history based around their home in Anatolia. This ancient civilization was once a powerhouse, an influencer of religion, and a true conqueror capable of breaking...
Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2009. — 450 p. — (Writings from the ancient world / Society of Biblical Literature; no. 15). — ISBN: 978-1-58983-212-1. This is the first book-length collection in English of letters from the ancient kingdom of the Hittites. All known well-preserved examples, including the important corpus of letters from the provincial capital of...
Revised and enlarged edition. — Thames & Hudson, 1986. — 176 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places). — ISBN: 0-500-02108-2. Hailed by reviewers as "stimulating," "outstanding" and of "enduring value" when it first appeared in 1975, The Hittites has now been completely revised by the author and is republished in a new format with additional illustrations. The Hittites were an...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2007. — 476 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 28) This volume deals with the ancient Anatolian textual evidence on dreams. The book starts with a study of the evidence from different perspectives. The second and third parts are of special interest for anthropologists and historians of religion, as they focus on the various shapes and...
Edited by Yoram Cohen, Amir Gilan, and Jared L. Miller – Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010 – (Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten, 51) – XIV, 439 p. – ISBN: 978-3-447-06119-3. Contents: List of Abbreviations. Introduction. Bibliography of Itamar Singer. Amnon Altman, How Many Treaty Traditions Existed in the Ancient Near East?. Alfonso Archi, When Did the Hittites Begin to Write...
Second Edition. — London: The Religious Tract Society, 1890. — 154 p. — (By Path of Bible Knowledge, XII). The Hittites: The Story of a Forgotten Empire is a history text written by A.H. Sayce and an excellent example of the early historical research conducted on the topic. The Hittites were an Anatolian people living in what is now Turkey, Syria, and Lebanon. The empire...
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...
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