The Hittites and Their World

by Billie Jean Collins

Overview

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 and Their World provides a concise, current, and engaging introduction to the history, society, and religion of this Anatolian empire, taking the reader from its beginnings in the period of the Assyrian Colonies in the nineteenth century B.C.E. to the eclipse of the Neo-Hittite cities at the end of the eighth century B.C.E. The numerous analogues with the biblical world featured throughout the volume together represent a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the varied and significant contributions of Hittite studies to biblical interpretation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589832961
Publisher:	Society of Biblical Literature
Publication date:	12/31/2007
Series:	Archaeology and Biblical Studies Series , #7
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

About the Author

Billie Jean Collins (Ph.D. Yale University 1989) teaches in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and is Acquisitions Editor for the Society of Biblical Literature. She has two edited volumes, A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East (Brill 2003) and Anatolian Interfaces (Oxbow 2007), the latter with Mary Bachvarova and Ian C. Rutherford.

Table of Contents

Preface     ix
List of Figures     xi
Abbreviations and Keys     xiii
A Brief History of Hittite Studies     1
A Political History of the Hittites     21
Society     91
Religion     157
Hittites in the Bible     197
Afterword     219
Further Reading     225
Subject Index     229
Index of Ancient Texts     246
Index of Modern Authors     251