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Hittite correlatives are paratactic
This paper argues that correlative constructions in Hittite are paratactically structured. The relative clause is essentially a clausal hanging topic, sitting at the left edge of the main clause in linear juxtaposition without actually being an ...
Thomas Clarence Motter
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“STRANDED ON THE SHORES OF HISTORY”? MONUMENTS AND (ART‐)HISTORICAL AWARENESS
ABSTRACT Can past agents deliberately influence our historical awareness by designing objects’ appearances and sending them to us down the stream of time? We know they have certainly tried to do so by raising monuments. But according to an influential narrative, the efforts of the “monumentalists” are destined to fail: no monument can keep a legacy ...
Jakub Stejskal
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Aram Kosyan’s "The Hittite Kingdom (Political History)" presents the military and political history of the Hittite Empire from the moment of its beginning (18th-17th centuries BC) until its disintegration in the late 13th century BC.
Hasmik Hmayakyan
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Hittite Geographers: Geographical Perceptions and Practices in Hittite Anatolia [PDF]
AbstractHittite archives are remarkably rich in geographical data. A diverse array of documents has yielded, aside from thousands of geographical names (of towns, territories, mountains, and rivers), detailed descriptions of the Hittite state’s frontiers and depictions of landscape and topography.
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The present article illustrates and summarizes some aspects of the formation of the Hittite Empire in the second millennium B.C. We shall delineate briefly the gradual progress of the Hittite Kingdom which —as a living organism— emerged (in the ...
Juan Manuel González Salazar
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A troubled inheritance: Overcoming the temporality problem in cases of historical injustice
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Renaud‐Philippe Garner, Marion Godman
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Teaching the Pentateuch: Challenges and Opportunities
ABSTRACT What are best practices for teaching the Pentateuch and the Hebrew Bible more broadly? How can we introduce students to ways of reading biblical texts that are eye‐opening, empowering, and accessible? In this paper, I explore some of the challenges and opportunities that we face as biblical studies professors, and I profile a handful of ...
Sara Milstein
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The Concept of Purity in Ancient Anatolian Religions: Water’s Sanctity in Purification
Purification, considered essential in ancient Anatolia, was the crown of religious rituals. Providing the most comprehensive archive of ancient Anatolia, The Hittite texts have many terms related to purity.
Nuriye Külahlı
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Foreword – Archaeometry special issue on chronological modeling
Abstract It is well understood that archaeologists, by definition, always strive to assess time as precisely as possible. However, the lack of efficient temporal data interoperability limits our understanding of cross‐cultural historical evolution. This Special Issue of Archaeometry on chronological modelling features nine contributions which, while ...
Thomas Huet, Eythan Levy
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In the Indo-European department of Leiden University, Alwin Kloekhorst has initiated a discussion on Hittite ammuk ‘me’. The central question is: where did the geminate come from?
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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