The Laws of the Hittites
Biographical note
Harry Angier Hoffner, Jr., Ph.D. (1963) in Mediterranean Studies, Brandeis University, is the John A. Wilson Professor of Hittitology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and co-editor (with H.G. Güterbock) of the Hittite Dictionary (Chicago, 1979-). He has published extensively on Hittite language and literature. His Ph.D. dissertation was on the Hittite laws.
Readership
Hittitologists, Assyriologists, historians of law, biblical scholars and all those interested in the culture and civilization of the Ancient Near East.
Reviews
'...the work is an incomparable price of scholarship, through its philological thoroughness and its informative comments. It will long be the text for anyone dealing with the Hittite laws.'
Edgar C. Polomé, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1999.
Edgar C. Polomé, The Journal of Indo-European Studies, 1999.
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