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Author : Harry A. Hoffner
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589832124
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from the Hittite Kingdom written by Harry A. Hoffner and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2009 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134575866
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East written by Trevor Bryce and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering fascinating insights into the people and politics of the ancient near Eastern kingdoms, Trevor Bryce uses the letters of the five Great Kings as the focus of a fresh look at this turbulent and volatile region in the late Bronze Age.
Author : Gary M. Beckman
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hittite Diplomatic Texts written by Gary M. Beckman and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 1999 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It will also prove useful for those investigating the relationship between Biblical covenant theology and its possible antecedents in older Near Eastern treaty patterns."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gary M. Beckman
Publisher : Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789004219717
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ahhiyawa Texts written by Gary M. Beckman and published by Brill Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. Ahhiyawa texts, a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical implications, an introductory essay, and a longer essay on Mycenaean-Hittite interconnections.
Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019927908X
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Kingdom of the Hittites written by Trevor Bryce and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations from the original texts are a particular feature of the book. Thus on many issues the Hittites and their contemporaries are allowed to speak to the modern reader for themselves."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Trevor Bryce
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786725282
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book Warriors of Anatolia written by Trevor Bryce and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 sometimes devastating plague. How, then, can the rise and triumph of this ancient imperium be explained, against seemingly insuperable odds? In his lively and unconventional treatment of one of antiquity's most mysterious civilizations, whose history disappeared from the records over three thousand years ago, Trevor Bryce sheds fresh light on Hittite warriors as well as on the Hittites' social, religious and political culture and offers new solutions to many unsolved questions. Revealing them to have been masters of chariot warfare, who almost inflicted disastrous defeat on Rameses II at the Battle of Qadesh (1274 BCE), he shows the Hittites also to have been devout worshippers of a pantheon of storm-gods and many other gods, and masters of a new diplomatic system which bolstered their authority for centuries. Drawing authoritatively both on texts and on ongoing archaeological discoveries, while at the same time offering imaginative reconstructions of the Hittite world, the author argues that while the development of a warrior culture was essential, not only for the Empire's expansion but for its very survival, this by itself was not enough. The range of skills demanded of the Hittite ruling class went way beyond mere military prowess, while there was much more to the Hittites themselves than just skill in warfare. This engaging volume reveals the Hittites in their full complexity, including the festivals they celebrated; the temples and palaces they built; their customs and superstitions; the crimes they committed; their social hierarchy, from king to slave; and the marriages and pre-nuptial agreements they contracted. It takes the reader on a journey which combines epic grandeur, spectacle and pageantry with an understanding of the intimacies and idiosyncrasies of Hittite daily life.
Author : THEO VAN DEN. HOUT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108816496
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Hittite Literacy written by THEO VAN DEN. HOUT and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive overview of the development of literacy, script usage, and literature in Hittite Anatolia (1650-1200 BC).
Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amanda H. Podany
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019970323X
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction written by Amanda H. Podany and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily rich and successful culture. Indeed, it was a time and place of earth-shaking changes for humankind: the beginnings of writing and law, kingship and bureaucracy, diplomacy and state-sponsored warfare, mathematics and literature. This Very Short Introduction offers a fascinating account of this momentous time in human history. The three thousand years covered here--from around 3500 BCE, with the founding of the first Mesopotamian cities, to the conquest of the Near East by the Persian king Cyrus the Great in 539 BCE-represent a period of incredible innovation, from the invention of the wheel and the plow, to early achievements in astronomy, law, and diplomacy. As historian Amanda Podany explores this era, she overturns the popular image of the ancient world as a primitive, violent place. We discover that women had many rights and freedoms: they could own property, run businesses, and represent themselves in court. Diplomats traveled between the capital cities of major powers ensuring peace and friendship between the kings. Scribes and scholars studied the stars and could predict eclipses and the movements of the planets. Every chapter introduces the reader to a particular moment in ancient Near Eastern history, illuminating such aspects as trade, religion, diplomacy, law, warfare, kingship, and agriculture. Each discussion focuses on evidence provided in two or three cuneiform texts from that time. These documents, the cities in which they were found, the people and gods named in them, the events they recount or reflect, all provide vivid testimony of the era in which they were written. About the Series: Oxford's Very Short Introductions series offers concise and original introductions to a wide range of subjects--from Islam to Sociology, Politics to Classics, Literary Theory to History, and Archaeology to the Bible. Not simply a textbook of definitions, each volume in this series provides trenchant and provocative--yet always balanced and complete--discussions of the central issues in a given discipline or field. Every Very Short Introduction gives a readable evolution of the subject in question, demonstrating how the subject has developed and how it has influenced society. Eventually, the series will encompass every major academic discipline, offering all students an accessible and abundant reference library. Whatever the area of study that one deems important or appealing, whatever the topic that fascinates the general reader, the Very Short Introductions series has a handy and affordable guide that will likely prove indispensable.
Author : William L. Moran
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Amarna Letters written by William L. Moran and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The acknowledged master of these texts is William Moran, who produced a complete re-edition of the tablets, in French, in 1987. The Amarna Letters is a revised version of this, done into English. Open it, and hear these voices from a vanished empire speak after three and a half millennia." -- Times Literary Supplement
