Author: Ian Rutherford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199593272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Our knowledge of ancient Greek religion has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. Using preserved cuneiform texts, this book explores cases of contact or influence between Ancient Greece and the Hittites to further our understanding of the complex history of religious practices.
Hittite Texts and Greek Religion
Author: Ian Rutherford
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199593272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Our knowledge of ancient Greek religion has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. Using preserved cuneiform texts, this book explores cases of contact or influence between Ancient Greece and the Hittites to further our understanding of the complex history of religious practices.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199593272
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Our knowledge of ancient Greek religion has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. Using preserved cuneiform texts, this book explores cases of contact or influence between Ancient Greece and the Hittites to further our understanding of the complex history of religious practices.
Hittite Texts and Greek Religion
Author: Ian Rutherford
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192599941
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 BC). The cuneiform texts preserved in the Hittite archives provide a particularly rich source for religious practice, detailing festivals, purification rituals, oracle-consultations, prayers, and myths of the Hittite state, as well as documenting the religious practice of neighbouring Anatolian states in which the Hittites took an interest. Hittite religion is thus more comprehensively documented than any other ancient religious tradition in the Near East, even Egypt. The Hittites are also known to have been in contact with Mycenaean Greece, known to them as Ahhiyawa. The book first sets out the evidence and provides a methodological paradigm for using comparative data. It then explores cases where there may have been contact or influence, such as in the case of scapegoat rituals or the Kumarbi-Cycle. Finally, it considers key aspects of religious practices shared by both systems, such as the pantheon, rituals of war, festivals, and animal sacrifice. The aim of such a comparison is to discover clues that may further our understanding of the deep history of religious practices and, when used in conjunction with historical data, illuminate the differences between cultures and reveal what is distinctive about each of them.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192599941
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Our knowledge of ancient Greece has been transformed in the last century by an increased understanding of the cultures of the Ancient Near East. This is particularly true of ancient religion. This book looks at the relationship between the religious systems of Ancient Greece and the Hittites, who controlled Turkey in the Late Bronze Age (1400-1200 BC). The cuneiform texts preserved in the Hittite archives provide a particularly rich source for religious practice, detailing festivals, purification rituals, oracle-consultations, prayers, and myths of the Hittite state, as well as documenting the religious practice of neighbouring Anatolian states in which the Hittites took an interest. Hittite religion is thus more comprehensively documented than any other ancient religious tradition in the Near East, even Egypt. The Hittites are also known to have been in contact with Mycenaean Greece, known to them as Ahhiyawa. The book first sets out the evidence and provides a methodological paradigm for using comparative data. It then explores cases where there may have been contact or influence, such as in the case of scapegoat rituals or the Kumarbi-Cycle. Finally, it considers key aspects of religious practices shared by both systems, such as the pantheon, rituals of war, festivals, and animal sacrifice. The aim of such a comparison is to discover clues that may further our understanding of the deep history of religious practices and, when used in conjunction with historical data, illuminate the differences between cultures and reveal what is distinctive about each of them.
The Ahhiyawa Texts
Author: Gary M. Beckman
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004219717
Category : Achaeans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. Ahhiyawa texts, a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical implications, an introductory essay, and a longer essay on Mycenaean-Hittite interconnections.
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
ISBN: 9789004219717
Category : Achaeans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume offers, for the first time in a single source, English translations of all twenty-six fifteenth–thirteenth centuries B.C.E. Ahhiyawa texts, a commentary and brief exposition on each text’s historical implications, an introductory essay, and a longer essay on Mycenaean-Hittite interconnections.
From Hittite to Homer
Author: Mary R. Bachvarova
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521509793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521509793
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 691
Book Description
This book takes a bold new approach to the prehistory of Homeric epic, arguing for a fresh understanding of how Near Eastern influence worked.
Some Aspects of Hittite Religion
Author: O R Gurney
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Parallels between Hittite civilisation and the Old Testament belong largely to the field of religion. In the first of his three Schweich lectures (delivered in 1976) Professor Gurney traces the historical development of the Hittite pantheon, while in his second and third lectures he selects some aspects of Hittite religion which can be compared with ancient Hebrew and Canaanite institutions. The second lecture describes the cult, both local and official, and the purpose of the open-air temple at Yazilikaya. The third is devoted to Hittite rituals of elimination and substitution and the mortuary ritual for the King. Parallels are drawn with the biblical masseba as a cult object and with the scapegoat ritual of Leviticus.
Publisher: OUP/British Academy
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Parallels between Hittite civilisation and the Old Testament belong largely to the field of religion. In the first of his three Schweich lectures (delivered in 1976) Professor Gurney traces the historical development of the Hittite pantheon, while in his second and third lectures he selects some aspects of Hittite religion which can be compared with ancient Hebrew and Canaanite institutions. The second lecture describes the cult, both local and official, and the purpose of the open-air temple at Yazilikaya. The third is devoted to Hittite rituals of elimination and substitution and the mortuary ritual for the King. Parallels are drawn with the biblical masseba as a cult object and with the scapegoat ritual of Leviticus.
Greek Religion and Culture, the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Author: Jan Bremmer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047432711
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047432711
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book greatly enhances our knowledge of the interrelationship of Greek religion & culture and the Ancient Near East by offering important analyses of Greek myths, divinities and terms like ‘magic’ and 'paradise', but also of the Greek contribution to the Christian notion of atonement.
Letters from the Hittite Kingdom
Author: Harry A. Hoffner
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 1589832124
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN: 1589832124
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World
Author: Sarah Hitch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Experts in Greek language, literature and material culture re-examine the role of animal sacrifice in Greek life across the Mediterranean.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191033
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Experts in Greek language, literature and material culture re-examine the role of animal sacrifice in Greek life across the Mediterranean.
Life and Society in the Hittite World
Author: Trevor Bryce
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199275882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Hittites were an ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 BC. Trevor Bryce uses contemporary scholarship and archaeological discoveries to examine their society and civilization.
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 0199275882
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Hittites were an ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 BC. Trevor Bryce uses contemporary scholarship and archaeological discoveries to examine their society and civilization.
Hittite Prayers
Author: Itamar Singer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004126954
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Hittite prayers were at first heavily influenced by Babylonian and Hurrian prototypes, but soon developed their own creative style, highly emotional and rich in metaphors. The twenty-four prayers assembled in the volume cover the entire span of Hittite literary history. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004126954
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Hittite prayers were at first heavily influenced by Babylonian and Hurrian prototypes, but soon developed their own creative style, highly emotional and rich in metaphors. The twenty-four prayers assembled in the volume cover the entire span of Hittite literary history. Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org).