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A conspicuous hiatus in literature on Hittite ritual exists on the transfer and substitution techniques or motifs. This is the first full description and analysis of this ritual, and as such provides the readers with an important contribution to our understanding of Hittite religious practice.
The Hittite substitution ritual is here presented making use of much new textual material. It presents the manuscripts with translations and transcriptions of all duplicate texts, an ample glossary of words, full thematic indices, and commentaries.
The latter shed light on the linguistic and cultural aspects, the role of chthonic deities, the cult of ancestors of North Syrian origin, etc., thus also defining a history of various purification motifs in Hittite substitution rituals.
The Hittite substitution ritual is here presented making use of much new textual material. It presents the manuscripts with translations and transcriptions of all duplicate texts, an ample glossary of words, full thematic indices, and commentaries.
The latter shed light on the linguistic and cultural aspects, the role of chthonic deities, the cult of ancestors of North Syrian origin, etc., thus also defining a history of various purification motifs in Hittite substitution rituals.
Price: $214.00
Pages: 312
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
Publication Date:
30 June 2000
ISBN: 9789004119109
Format: Other
'Stand dem Interesse des Rezensenten folgend die philologische Seite der Bearbeitung in der Besprechung im Vordergrund, sei ausdrücklich betont, dass das Buch auch von einem weiteren Leserkreis der Nachbarwissenschaften wie Akkadisten oder Religionshistorikern mit Gewinn gelesen werden dürfte.'
Detlev Groddek, Die Welt des Orients, 2002.
'The book displays the same precision as that with which the Hittites describe the objects necessary to the ritual and the manner in which they should be represented. Congratulations are in order for author and publisher.'
J. de Roos, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2001.
Detlev Groddek, Die Welt des Orients, 2002.
'The book displays the same precision as that with which the Hittites describe the objects necessary to the ritual and the manner in which they should be represented. Congratulations are in order for author and publisher.'
J. de Roos, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2001.
Piotr Taracha, Ph.D. (1993) in Aegean archaeology is Lecturer in the Hittite language at the Oriental Institute of the University of Warsaw and Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published on Hittite language and literature, Hattian language and Aegean weaponry.