Also available: Ancient Law Course Description / Ancient
Law Connections
Required Reading
- O.R. Gurney, "The Hittites", in The Encyclopedia of Ancient
Civilizations (Arthur Cotterell, ed., 1980)
- O.R. Gurney, "Laws and Institutions", in The Hittites 94-96 (1981)
- E. Neufeld, The Hittite Laws 70-73; 78-79; 94-113 (1951)
- Albert Goetze, trans., "The Hittite Laws", in Ancient Near Eastern
Texts (James B. Pritchard, ed., 1950)
Recommended Reading
- Gary Beckman, Hittite Diplomatic Texts (1996)
- H.G. Guterbock, "Authority and Law in the Hittite Kingdom", 40 Journal of the American
Oriental Society 16 (1954)
- Harry Hoffner, The Laws of the Hittites: A Critical Edition (1997)
- Harry Hoffner, "Hittite Laws", in Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia
Minor (Martha Roth, ed., 1996)
- Kaspar K. Riemschneider, "Prison and Punishment in Early
Anatolia", 20 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the
Orient 114 (1977)
- David P. Wright, "The Gesture of Hand Placement in the Hebrew
Bible and in Hittite Literature", 106 Journal of the American
Oriental Society 433 (1986)
Suggestions for new Readings are always
appreciated.