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Mark Weeden deposited The Construction of Meaning on the Cuneiform Periphery. on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
On the one hand it has been suggested that the Hittites made conscious changes to the logograms used in the cuneiform script using a variety of resources. On the other hand some scholars, including myself, have continued to accept, either as a default position or with a thorough theoretical grounding, that deviations from regular…[Read more]
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Mark Weeden's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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Mark Weeden deposited Hittite Epigraphic Finds from Büklükale 2010-2014 on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
This summary article presents the epigraphic finds from Biikliikale from 2010-14 with the exception of the cuneiform text BKT 1, which has already been published elsewhere (Weeden 2013).
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Mark Weeden deposited The New Inscription from Türkmenkarahöyük and its Historical Context on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
Abstract: The publication of a hieroglyphic inscription found at Türkmenkarahöyük in the Konya region and the associated survey-work in the area have raised numerous questions about the location of the city of Tarhuntassa, the aftermath of the Hittite Empire and the dating of the Hieroglyphic inscriptions which men- tion a king called Hartapu. In…[Read more]
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Mark Weeden's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 3 years, 10 months ago
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Mark Weeden deposited Hittite Scribal Culture and Syria: Palaeography and Cuneiform Transmission on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
Review of types of scribal interaction between Hittite Anatolia and Syria and first steps towards a taxonomy of the sorts of contexts under which new sign-forms might have made their way into the Hittite cuneiform sign-repertoire.
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Presentation of historical geography of area between Alaca and Zile during the Hittite period (Late Bronze Age).
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Mark Weeden deposited Kizzuwatna and the Euphrates States: Kummaha, Elbistan, Malatya: Philology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
Summary of philological evidence for Hittite Geography regarding KIzzuwatna and the Euphrates States.
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months agoThis paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Textualization of Priestly Ritual in Light of Hittite Sources on Humanities Commons 8 years, 7 months ago
This paper evaluates the recent upsurge of interest in the scribal processes underlying the composition of Hittite ritual text and the implications of this evidence for understanding the compositional history of biblical rituals.
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Mark Weeden deposited A Hittite Tablet from Büklükale in the group
Assyriologists on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoEdition of cuneiform tablet excavated at Büklükale on the western Kızılırmak in 2010.
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Mark Weeden deposited A Hittite Tablet from Büklükale in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoEdition of cuneiform tablet excavated at Büklükale on the western Kızılırmak in 2010.
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Edition of cuneiform tablet excavated at Büklükale on the western Kızılırmak in 2010.
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Mark Weeden's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months ago
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Defilement of Dina: Uncontrolled Passions, Textual Violence, and the Search for Moral Foundations in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThe story of Dinah’s violation in Genesis 34 has elicited radically different evaluations among exegetes. The present article attributes these divergent readings to the existence of distinct voices or moral positions in the text, particularly in relation to the issue of intermarriage. Beginning with a synchronic literary and ideological analysis o…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited The Semantics of Purity in the Ancient Near East: Lexical Meaning as a Projection of Embodied Experience in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article analyzes the primary terms for purity in Biblical Hebrew, Ugaritic, Sumerian, Akkadian and Hittite. Building on insights from cognitive linguistics and embodiment theory, this study develops the premise that semantic structure – even of seemingly abstract concepts– is grounded in real-world bodily experience. An examination of pur…[Read more]
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Yitzhaq Feder deposited Disgust, Disease and Defilement: The Experiential Basis for Akkadian and Hittite Terms for Pollution in the group
Ancient Near East on Humanities Commons 8 years, 8 months agoThis article challenges the common tendency in modern research to treat impurity
as a religious phenomenon divorced from mundane concerns. Employing the
cross-cultural psychological notion of “contagion,” this investigation examines
the usage of terms for pollution and purity in Hittite and Akkadian as they relate
to distinct domains of hum…[Read more] - Load More
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