Description

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Lost to history for millennia, the Hittites have regained their position among the great civilizations of the Late Bronze Age Near East, thanks to a century of archaeological discovery and philological investigation. The Hittites and Their World provides a concise, current, and engaging introduction to the history, society, and religion of this Anatolian empire, taking the reader from its beginnings in the period of the Assyrian Colonies in the nineteenth century B.C.E. to the eclipse of the Neo-Hittite cities at the end of the eighth century B.C.E. The numerous analogues with the biblical world featured throughout the volume together represent a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the varied and signicant contributions of Hittite studies to biblical interpretation.

Paperback edition is available from the Society of Biblical Literature (www.sbl-site.org)

About the Author

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Billie Jean Collins (Ph.D. Yale University 1989) teaches in the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia and is Acquisitions Editor for the Society of Biblical Literature. She has two edited volumes, A History of the Animal World in the Ancient Near East (Brill 2003) and Anatolian Interfaces (Oxbow 2007), the latter with Mary Bachvarova and Ian C. Rutherford.