Geschichte Des Hethitischen Reichs (Handbook of Oriental Studies, (Ancient Near East) , No 34) - Hardcover

Haas, Volkert; Imparati, Fiorella; Klengel, Horst

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004102019 ISBN 13: 9789004102019

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1998

Synopsis

The Anatolian people of the Hittites (ca. 1700-1200 B.C.) are the subject of the underlying work. In recent decades scholars have increased our knowledge in the field enormously without bringing the new insights together in a new comprehensive handbook. This long-awaited handbook deals with the whole of the influential political history of the Hittite Empire.
After an introduction on the natural conditions of Anatolia, chapters follow on the Hittite history of the early period, the old kingdom of the Hittites, the 'middle' kingdom and, extensively, the new kingdom or empire period.
The book is organized chronologically, and each chapter starts with a section on the sources and secondary literature, followed by the actual text on the subsequent periods.
In a separate chapter Professor Fiorella Imparati offers a survey on the political structure of the Hittite Kingdom and its foreign policy.
Chronological tables, a bibliography arranged by the subsequent periods, a section on problems, and several illustrations conclude this important volume.
Given the tremendous amount of material and its lucid organisation this will be one of the few reference works on the Hittites for years to come.

About this title

About the Author

Horst Klengel, Ph.D. (1958) in ancient Oriental history and Assyriology, has published extensively on Hittite, Syrian and Old Babylonian history. He has edited several volumes with Akkadian and Hittite texts and was teaching at the Humboldt-University and the Free University of Berlin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004102019
• ISBN 13: 9789004102019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Van Den Hout Theo