“... The word פשע employed in the Amos oracles seems to allude to the fact that these nations have violated their treaty with Israel and ‘sinned’ against her. [...] Cf. Amos 1: 9: ‘And did not remember the covenant of brotherhood’, which refers to the treaty between Israel and Tyre in Solomonic times or thereafter. The Akkadian term for a parity treaty is aḫūtum (see Munn-Rankin, Iraq 18 (1956), 68 ff.) and cf. Hiram’s designation of his ally Solomon as ‘my brother’ (1 Kgs. 9: 13). ...”

“... In the crucial treaty there are two features which are not distinctively Hittite. One is the playing on the 'beautiful brotherhood and beautiful friendship' which the treaty established. This echoes the phrases of the Amarna correspondence and the phrases in the correspondence of the Egyptian queen Nefertari to Puduhepa, her Hittite counterpart. The other distinctive element is the modification of the historical section in the version which came originally from Egypt. The rest of the text - the stipulations and god list - are in terms which are typical for Hittite treaties. The reference to the thousand gods is a characteristic Hittite expression. ...”