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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- Hays, Christopher B., Death in the Iron Age II and in First Isaiah
- Bodi, Daniel, "When YHWH's Wife, Jerusalem, Became a Strange Woman: Inversion of Values in Ezekiel 16 in Light of Ištar Cult" in Berlejung, Angelika, and Marianne Grohmann (eds.) Foreign Women - Women in Foreign Lands: Studies on Foreignness and Gender in the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East in the First Millennium BCE
- Alter, Robert, The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary
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