The Calm Before the Storm

Selected Writings of Itamar Singer on the Late Bronze Age in Anatolia and the Levant
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-20255-9
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 768 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: SBL - Writings from the Ancient World Supplements

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Singer, Itamar

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Altorientalische Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Hatti and Its Neighbors

Hittite Domination in Syria
Syria after the Battle of Qadesh

Ugarit
A Political History of Ugarit
TakuHlinu and Haya: 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 Šaušgamuwa Treaty
Hittite Cultural Influence in the Kingdom of Amurru
The Title “Great Princess” in the Hittite Empire
The Treaties between Hatti and Amurru
MaHHaza, King of Amurru

Emar
A New Hittite Letter from Emar
Borrowing Seals at Emar
A Late Synchronism between Ugarit and Emar (with Y. Cohen)

Karkamiš
The Treaties between Karkamiš and Hatti
The Great Scribe Taki-Šarruma
A Lost Seal of Talmi-Tešub

Hatti and Mesopotamia
The Battle of NiHriya 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.

Hatti and the West
Western Anatolia in the Thirteenth Century B.C. according to the Hittite Sources
Purple-Dyers in Lazpa
AHHiyawans Bearing Gifts

Hatti and Egypt
The Kuruštama Treaty Revisited
The UrHi-Tešub Affair in the Hittite-Egyptian Correspondence
Hittite Gods in Egyptian Attire: A Case Study in Cultural Transmission

Hatti and Canaan
The Hittites and the Bible Revisited
A Hittite Hieroglyphic Seal Impression from Tel Aphek
Megiddo Mentioned in a Letter from Bogazköy
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 Hattuša to TarHuntašša: Some Thoughts on Muwatalli’s Reign
The Toponyms Tiwa and Tawa
The Fate of Hattuša during the Period of TarHuntašša’s Supremacy
DanuHepa and Kurunta
Great Kings of TarHuntašša
Dating the End of the Hittite Empire
New Evidence on the End of the Hittite Empire
In Hattuša the Royal House Declined
On Luwians and Hittites

Epilogue
Between Scepticism and Credulity: In Defence of Hittite Historiography

Über Autor(innen)

Singer, Itamar
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).