The Calm before the Storm
Selected writings of Itamar Singer on the late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant
Published on 25. May 2012
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Hardback
780 pages
978-90-04-20255-9 (ISBN)
Description
In a career that so far has spanned 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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 50 mm
Weight
1271 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-20255-9 (9789004202559)
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Itamar Singer is Professor of Ancient Near Eastern History and Cultures at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Hittite KI.LAM Festival (Harrassowitz), Muwatalli's Prayer (American Schools of Oriental Research), Hittite Prayers (Society of Biblical Literature), and the co-author of The General's Letter from Ugarit (Tel Aviv University).
Content
Introduction
?atti and Its Neighbors
Hittite Domination in Syria
Syria after the Battle of Qadesh
Ugarit
A Political History of Ugarit
Taku?linu and ?aya: 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
Amurru
A Concise History of Amurru
The `Land of Amurru' and the `Lands of Amurru' in the Sausgamuwa Treaty
Hittite Cultural Influence in the Kingdom of Amurru
The Title "Great Princess" in the Hittite Empire
The Treaties between ?atti and Amurru
Ma??aza, King of Amurru
Emar
A New Hittite Letter from Emar
Borrowing Seals at Emar
A Late Synchronism between Ugarit and Emar (with Y. Cohen)
Karkamis
The Treaties between Karkamis and ?atti
The Great Scribe Taki-Sarruma
A Lost Seal of Talmi-Tesub
?atti and Mesopotamia
The Battle of Ni?riya 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.
?atti and the West
Western Anatolia in the Thirteenth Century B.C. according to the Hittite Sources
Purple-Dyers in Lazpa
A??iyawans Bearing Gifts
?atti and Egypt
The Kurustama Treaty Revisited
The Ur?i-Tesub Affair in the Hittite-Egyptian Correspondence
Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission
?atti and Canaan
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited
A Hittite Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Tel Aphek
Megiddo Mentioned in a Letter from Bogazkoey
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 ?attusa to Tar?untassa: Some Thoughts on Muwatalli's Reign
The Toponyms Tiwa and Tawa
The Fate of ?attusa during the Period of Tar?untassa's Supremacy
Danu?epa and Kurunta
Great Kings of Tar?untassa
Dating the End of the Hittite Empire
New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire
In ?attusa the Royal House Declined
On Luwians and Hittites
Epilogue
Between Scepticism and Credulity: In Defence of Hittite Historiography
?atti and Its Neighbors
Hittite Domination in Syria
Syria after the Battle of Qadesh
Ugarit
A Political History of Ugarit
Taku?linu and ?aya: 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
Amurru
A Concise History of Amurru
The `Land of Amurru' and the `Lands of Amurru' in the Sausgamuwa Treaty
Hittite Cultural Influence in the Kingdom of Amurru
The Title "Great Princess" in the Hittite Empire
The Treaties between ?atti and Amurru
Ma??aza, King of Amurru
Emar
A New Hittite Letter from Emar
Borrowing Seals at Emar
A Late Synchronism between Ugarit and Emar (with Y. Cohen)
Karkamis
The Treaties between Karkamis and ?atti
The Great Scribe Taki-Sarruma
A Lost Seal of Talmi-Tesub
?atti and Mesopotamia
The Battle of Ni?riya 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.
?atti and the West
Western Anatolia in the Thirteenth Century B.C. according to the Hittite Sources
Purple-Dyers in Lazpa
A??iyawans Bearing Gifts
?atti and Egypt
The Kurustama Treaty Revisited
The Ur?i-Tesub Affair in the Hittite-Egyptian Correspondence
Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission
?atti and Canaan
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited
A Hittite Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Tel Aphek
Megiddo Mentioned in a Letter from Bogazkoey
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 ?attusa to Tar?untassa: Some Thoughts on Muwatalli's Reign
The Toponyms Tiwa and Tawa
The Fate of ?attusa during the Period of Tar?untassa's Supremacy
Danu?epa and Kurunta
Great Kings of Tar?untassa
Dating the End of the Hittite Empire
New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire
In ?attusa the Royal House Declined
On Luwians and Hittites
Epilogue
Between Scepticism and Credulity: In Defence of Hittite Historiography