Overview

A conspicuous hiatus in literature on Hittite ritual exists on the transfer and substitution techniques or motifs. This book offers a description and analysis of this ritual, and aims to provide the reader with a contribution to our understanding of Hittite religious practice. The Hittite substitution ritual is presented making use of much new textual material. It presents the manuscripts with translations and transcriptions of all duplicate texts, thematic indexes and commentaries. The latter shed light on the linguistic and cultural aspects, the role of shthonic deities, the cult of ancestors of North Syrian origin, etc., thus also defining a history of various purification motifs in Hittite substitution rituals.

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'Stand dem Interesse des Rezensenten folgend die philologische Seite der Bearbeitung in der Besprechung im Vordergrund, sei ausdrucklich betont, dass das Buch auch von einem weiteren Leserkreis der Nachbarwissenschaften wie Akkadisten oder Religionshistorikern mit Gewinn gelesen werden durfte.' 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.

'Stand dem Interesse des Rezensenten folgend die philologische Seite der Bearbeitung in der Besprechung im Vordergrund, sei ausdrucklich betont, dass das Buch auch von einem weiteren Leserkreis der Nachbarwissenschaften wie Akkadisten oder Religionshistorikern mit Gewinn gelesen werden durfte.' 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.

' Stand dem Interesse des Rezensenten folgend die philologische Seite der Bearbeitung in der Besprechung im Vordergrund, sei ausdr]cklich betont, dass das Buch auch von einem weiteren Leserkreis der Nachbarwissenschaften wie Akkadisten oder Religionshistorikern mit Gewinn gelesen werden d]rfte.'<br>Detlev Groddek, Die Welt des Orients, 2002.<br>' 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.'<br>J. de Roos, Bibliotheca Orientalis, 2001.

Author Information

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.

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