The Purity of Kingship
An Edition of CHT 569 and Related Hittite Oracle Inquiries of Tuth̬aliya IV
Biographical note
Theo P.J. van den Hout is Professor of Anatolian Languages and History of the preclassical period at the University of Amsterdam. His books include Der Ulmitešub-Vertrag. Eine prosopographische Untersuchung (Wiesbaden 1995) and, together with H.G. Güterbock, The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard (Chicago, 1991).
Readership
This book is inteded for Hittitologists and those interested in the history of the Ancient Near East.
Reviews
'Van den Hout has prepared an exemplary edition of this material, elucidating its philological difficulties, and drawing from it important historical data for a crucial period of Hittite history…This study will be of great interest to all Hittitilogists and to many ancient historians as well.'
Gary Beckman, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1999.
Gary Beckman, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1999.
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