Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Volumes I and II
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I Mesopotamia and the Near East
- 1 Sumerian Religion
- 2 Assyrian and Babylonian Religions
- 3 Hittite Religion
- 4 Zoroastrianism
- 5 Syro-Canaanite Religions
- 6 Israelite and Judean Religions
- Part II Egypt and North Africa
- Part III Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
- Part IV The Western Mediterranean and Europe
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- General Index
- Index of Citations
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Iran and the Near East
- Part II Egypt and North Africa
- Part III Greece and Asia Minor
- Part IV Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- General Index
- Index of Citations
- References
3 - Hittite Religion
from Part I - Mesopotamia and the Near East
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction to Volumes I and II
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I Mesopotamia and the Near East
- 1 Sumerian Religion
- 2 Assyrian and Babylonian Religions
- 3 Hittite Religion
- 4 Zoroastrianism
- 5 Syro-Canaanite Religions
- 6 Israelite and Judean Religions
- Part II Egypt and North Africa
- Part III Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
- Part IV The Western Mediterranean and Europe
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- General Index
- Index of Citations
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Maps
- List of Contributors
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction to Volume II
- Part I Iran and the Near East
- Part II Egypt and North Africa
- Part III Greece and Asia Minor
- Part IV Italy, Roman Gaul, and Spain
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- General Index
- Index of Citations
- References
Summary
The term “religion” is employed here in reference to the complex of conceptions concerning the character of parahuman elements in the cosmos and the relationship of men and women to these beings and forces, as well as to the practices by which humans interact with them. Because the Hittites of second-millennium-bce Anatolia, like all the peoples of the ancient Near East, perceived deities, demons, and the spirits of the dead to be involved in the most mundane aspects of existence, religion was for them an integral part of daily life.
As something so imbricated in the quotidian and self-evident to societal contemporaries, religion was seldom the subject of self-conscious reflection or examination in Hatti (as the Hittites referred to their nation and its territory; see Map 2). Accordingly, the Hittites bequeathed to posterity no theological treatises or surveys of their beliefs, and it is therefore necessary for the modern student to reconstruct their religious life from scattered evidence of the most diverse nature.
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- The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World , pp. 84 - 101Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013
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