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Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
This chapter is in the book Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday
© 2021 Penn State University Press

© 2021 Penn State University Press

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Dedication ix
  4. Abbreviations xi
  5. A Complete Bibliography of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. 1963–2003 xiii
  6. Middle Hittite—“Middle Kingdom” 1
  7. The Predecessors of Ḫattušili I 13
  8. Gilgamesh in Ḫatti 37
  9. Relations between Hatti and Ahhiyawa in the Last Decades of the Bronze Age 59
  10. On the Trail of the Deer: Hittite kūrala- 73
  11. Le cariche d’oro 83
  12. Enkel des Königs, aber kein Prinz! 93
  13. De la confrontation à l’entente cordiale: Les relations assyro-hittites à la fin de l’âge du Bronze (ca. 1250–1180 av. J.C.) 101
  14. The Upper Land, mātum elītum 119
  15. Bull Jumping in a Hittite Text? 127
  16. Betrachtungen zur Traditionsgeschichte hethitischer Rituale am Beispiel des “Sündenbock”-Motivs 131
  17. Zur sachlichen Zuständigkeit des Königsgerichts (DI.KUD LUGAL) in der hethitischen Rechtssatzung 143
  18. The Hittite Ritual against a Curse (CTH 429) 149
  19. The Storm-God Seal of Mursili III 169
  20. Studies in the Hittite Phraseological Construction I: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties 177
  21. A New Look at the Outline Tablets of the AN.TAḪ.ŠUMSAR Festival: The Text-Copy VS NF 12.1 205
  22. Why Did the Hittites Have a Thousand Deities? 221
  23. Zur Paläographie akkadischsprachiger Texte aus Ḫattšua 237
  24. A Note on “The Tale of the Merchants” 249
  25. More on the So-Called “Puhanu Chronicle” 253
  26. Cultural Boundaries in Hittite Ritual 265
  27. Hittite antaka- “loins” and an Overlooked Myth about Fire 281
  28. On Some Clauses in the Kurunta Treaty and the Political Scenery at the End of the Hittite Empire 289
  29. Die hurritischen Pronomina der hurritischhethitischen Bilingue aus Ḫattuša 297
  30. Hethitisch utezzi “Nässe” und indogermanisch *wed- 307
  31. Zur Topographie von Hattusa: Tempel auf Büyükkale 315
  32. Of Loons and Legumes 325
  33. Forcing Morals on Mesopotamian Society? 329
  34. The Great Scribe Taki-Šarruma 341
  35. A Practical Vocabulary from Ortaköy 349
  36. Is Tutḫaliya’s Sword Really Aegean? 367
  37. Word Play in Hittite Literature? 377
  38. Hittite ku-ku-uš-zi, KUB 10.99 i 29 389
  39. König Silber und König Ḫidam 393
  40. Indexes 397
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781575065434-020

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Dedication ix
  4. Abbreviations xi
  5. A Complete Bibliography of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. 1963–2003 xiii
  6. Middle Hittite—“Middle Kingdom” 1
  7. The Predecessors of Ḫattušili I 13
  8. Gilgamesh in Ḫatti 37
  9. Relations between Hatti and Ahhiyawa in the Last Decades of the Bronze Age 59
  10. On the Trail of the Deer: Hittite kūrala- 73
  11. Le cariche d’oro 83
  12. Enkel des Königs, aber kein Prinz! 93
  13. De la confrontation à l’entente cordiale: Les relations assyro-hittites à la fin de l’âge du Bronze (ca. 1250–1180 av. J.C.) 101
  14. The Upper Land, mātum elītum 119
  15. Bull Jumping in a Hittite Text? 127
  16. Betrachtungen zur Traditionsgeschichte hethitischer Rituale am Beispiel des “Sündenbock”-Motivs 131
  17. Zur sachlichen Zuständigkeit des Königsgerichts (DI.KUD LUGAL) in der hethitischen Rechtssatzung 143
  18. The Hittite Ritual against a Curse (CTH 429) 149
  19. The Storm-God Seal of Mursili III 169
  20. Studies in the Hittite Phraseological Construction I: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties 177
  21. A New Look at the Outline Tablets of the AN.TAḪ.ŠUMSAR Festival: The Text-Copy VS NF 12.1 205
  22. Why Did the Hittites Have a Thousand Deities? 221
  23. Zur Paläographie akkadischsprachiger Texte aus Ḫattšua 237
  24. A Note on “The Tale of the Merchants” 249
  25. More on the So-Called “Puhanu Chronicle” 253
  26. Cultural Boundaries in Hittite Ritual 265
  27. Hittite antaka- “loins” and an Overlooked Myth about Fire 281
  28. On Some Clauses in the Kurunta Treaty and the Political Scenery at the End of the Hittite Empire 289
  29. Die hurritischen Pronomina der hurritischhethitischen Bilingue aus Ḫattuša 297
  30. Hethitisch utezzi “Nässe” und indogermanisch *wed- 307
  31. Zur Topographie von Hattusa: Tempel auf Büyükkale 315
  32. Of Loons and Legumes 325
  33. Forcing Morals on Mesopotamian Society? 329
  34. The Great Scribe Taki-Šarruma 341
  35. A Practical Vocabulary from Ortaköy 349
  36. Is Tutḫaliya’s Sword Really Aegean? 367
  37. Word Play in Hittite Literature? 377
  38. Hittite ku-ku-uš-zi, KUB 10.99 i 29 389
  39. König Silber und König Ḫidam 393
  40. Indexes 397
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