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Hittites --- Religion.

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This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Hittites contains a chronology, an introduction, an appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on important people, places, essential institutions, and significant aspects of the society, government, economy, material culture, and warfare.

Hittites --- Civilization --- History

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This pioneering study examines the use of blood to purge the effects of sin and impurity in Hittite and biblical ritual. The idea that blood atones for sins holds a prominent place in both Jewish and Christian traditions. The author traces this notion back to its earliest documentation in the fourteenth- and thirteenth-century B.C.E. texts from Hittite Anatolia, in which the smearing of blood is used as a means of expiation, purification, and consecration. This rite parallels, in both its procedure and goals, the biblical sin offering. The author argues that this practice stems from a common tradition manifested in both cultures. In addition, this book aims to decipher and elucidate the symbolism of the practice of blood smearing by seeking to identify the sociocultural context in which the expiatory significance of blood originated. Thus, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the meaning and efficacy of ritual, the origins of Jewish and Christian notions of sin and atonement, and the origin of the biblical blood rite.

Blood in the Bible. --- Blood --- Ritual. --- Hittites --- Religious aspects. --- Religion.

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This book provides the general reader with an account of the diverse and often highly complex oracular techniques which made verbal communication with the gods possible. As negative oracles and omens were mostly an expression of divine anger, skilled experts attempt to divert the anger by ritual magic means and thus to correct the future or transgressions from the past. The topic of ""Hittite mantics"" has hitherto been largely neglected, except in specialist literature, although mantics was of supreme importance for Hittite society and was closely bound up with politics and cult.

Hittite cults. --- Hittites --- Oracles, Hittite. --- Hittite oracles --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cults --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Cult. --- Hittites. --- Oracle.

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Art, Hittite. --- Gods, Hittite. --- Hittites --- Gods, Hittite --- Chatti --- Kheta --- Khita --- Indo-Europeans --- Hittite gods --- Hittite art --- Religion. --- Art. --- Antiquities. --- Religion --- Turkey --- Hittites - Religion --- Gods, Hittite - Art