Hittite describes an ancient people and their language who lived in Anatolia, modern-day Turkey, during the Bronze Age. They ruled the Hittite Empire from roughly 1600 to 1200 BCE and were major political rivals of Egypt and Mesopotamian states. The Hittites are known through royal inscriptions, legal texts, treaties, and myths written on clay tablets.
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- Day, John, Yahweh and the Gods and Goddesses of Canaan
- Loader, William R. G., Enoch, Levi, and Jubilees on Sexuality: Attitudes towards Sexuality in the Early Enoch Literature, the Aramaic Levi Document, and the Book of Jubilees
- Kitz, Anne Marie, Cursed Are You! The Phenomenology of Cursing in Cuneiform and Hebrew Texts
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