Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday / / ed. by Gary Beckman, Richard H. Beal, Gregory McMahon.

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• MitwirkendeR: Archi, Alfonso,; Beal, Richard H.,; Beckman, Gary,; Bryce, Trevor,; Dinçol, Ali M.,; Dinçol, Belkis,; Freu, J.,; Gurney, O. R.,; Güterbock, Hans G.,; Haas, Volkert,; Haase, Richard,; Haroutunian, Hripsime S.,; Haroutunian, Hripsime,; Hawkins, J. D.,; Hout, Theo van den,; Houwink ten Cate, Philo H. J.,; Imparati, Fiorella,; Jean Collins, Billie,; Karasu, Cem,; Klinger, J.,; Košak, Silvin,; Martino, Stefano de,; McMahon, Gregory,; Melchert, H. Craig,; Mora, Clelia,; Oettinger, Norbert,; Pecchioli Daddi, Franca,; Popko, Maciej,; Puhvel, Jaan,; Sasson, Jack M.,; Singer, Itamar,; Soysal, Oğuz,; Süel, Aygül,; Taracha, Piotr,; Watkins, Calvert,; Wilhelm, Gernot,; Ünal, Ahmet,
• HerausgeberIn: Beal, Richard H.,; Beckman, Gary,; McMahon, Gregory,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)

A tribute to America's preeminent scholar of Hittite language and culture, Professor Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The thirty-four contributors, students, and colleagues treat topics as diverse as Hittite contacts with the Mycenaean Greeks, the topography of the Hittite capital, and various aspects of Hittite grammar and etymology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Dedication -- Abbreviations -- A Complete Bibliography of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. 1963-2003 -- Middle Hittite-"Middle Kingdom" -- The Predecessors of Ḫattušili I -- Gilgamesh in Ḫatti -- Relations between Hatti and Ahhiyawa in the Last Decades of the Bronze Age -- On the Trail of the Deer: Hittite kūrala- -- Le cariche d'oro -- Enkel des Königs, aber kein Prinz! -- 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.) -- The Upper Land, mātum elītum -- Bull Jumping in a Hittite Text? -- Betrachtungen zur Traditionsgeschichte hethitischer Rituale am Beispiel des "Sündenbock"-Motivs -- Zur sachlichen Zuständigkeit des Königsgerichts (DI.KUD LUGAL) in der hethitischen Rechtssatzung -- The Hittite Ritual against a Curse (CTH 429) -- The Storm-God Seal of Mursili III -- Studies in the Hittite Phraseological Construction I: Its Syntactic and Semantic Properties -- A New Look at the Outline Tablets of the AN.TAḪ.ŠUMSAR Festival: The Text-Copy VS NF 12.1 -- Why Did the Hittites Have a Thousand Deities? -- Zur Paläographie akkadischsprachiger Texte aus Ḫattšua -- A Note on "The Tale of the Merchants" -- More on the So-Called "Puhanu Chronicle" -- Cultural Boundaries in Hittite Ritual -- Hittite antaka- "loins" and an Overlooked Myth about Fire -- On Some Clauses in the Kurunta Treaty and the Political Scenery at the End of the Hittite Empire -- Die hurritischen Pronomina der hurritischhethitischen Bilingue aus Ḫattuša -- Hethitisch utezzi "Nässe" und indogermanisch *wed- -- Zur Topographie von Hattusa: Tempel auf Büyükkale -- Of Loons and Legumes -- Forcing Morals on Mesopotamian Society? -- The Great Scribe Taki-Šarruma -- A Practical Vocabulary from Ortaköy -- Is Tutḫaliya's Sword Really Aegean? -- Word Play in Hittite Literature? -- Hittite ku-ku-uš-zi, KUB 10.99 i 29 -- König Silber und König Ḫidam -- Indexes