History of Hittite Literacy - Writing and Reading in Late Bronze-Age Anatolia (1650-1200 Bc)

For all those interested in literacy and script usage in general and in the ancient world in particular. As the first, comprehensive overview, it sketches the development of literacy and of literature in Hittite Anatolia (2000/1650-1200 BC) and situates them in the history of the kingdom.

List of contents

1. Writing and Literacy among the Anatolians in the Old Assyrian Period; 2. From Kanesh to Hattusa; 3. First Writing in Hattusa; 4. Literacy and Literature in the Old Kingdom until 1500 bc; 5. The Emergence of Writing in Hittite; 6. A Second Script; 7. The New Kingdom Cuneiform Corpus; 8. The New Kingdom Hieroglyphic Corpus; 9. The Wooden Writing Boards; 10. The Seal Impressions of the Westbau and Building D and the Wooden Tablets; 11. In the Hittite Chancellery and Tablet Collections; 12. Scribes and Scholars; 13. The End and Looking Back.

About the author

Theo van den Hout is Arthur and Joann Rasmussen Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. He is the Chief Editor of the Chicago Hittite Dictionary project, corresponding member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow, Senior Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World in New York, and the author of various books.

Summary

For all those interested in literacy and script usage in general and in the ancient world in particular. As the first, comprehensive overview, it sketches the development of literacy and of literature in Hittite Anatolia (2000/1650–1200 BC) and situates them in the history of the kingdom.

Product details

• Authors: Theo van den Hout, Theo Van Den (University of Chicago) Hout
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781108816496
• ISBN: 978-1-108-81649-6
• No. of pages: 453
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Christianity, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Historical & comparative linguistics, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Historical and comparative linguistics