Some Contributions Of Hittitology To Old Testament Study -- By: Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.

Journal: Tyndale Bulletin
Volume: TYNBUL 20:1 (NA 1969)
Article: Some Contributions Of Hittitology To Old Testament Study
Author: Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.


Some Contributions Of Hittitology To Old Testament Study

Harry A. Hoffner, Jr.

*The Tyndale Biblical Archaeology Lecture, 1968

* Delivered At Tyndale House, Cambridge, In July 1968.

This is an ambitious subject, for the contributions of Hittitology to Old Testament studies, while clearly not nearly so numerous as those of Assyriology or Egyptology, are still considerable. It is not an unreasonable task for one to attempt to review such a subject in brief compass.

Although the first section will treat the question of Hittites in the Old Testament, I have deliberately avoided entitling this lecture ‘The Hittites and the Old Testament’ for two reasons. First, an excellent lecture by this title was delivered some years ago by Professor F. F. Bruce.1 But far more important, I have avoided this wording because I do not believe that the really important issue for Old Testament scholars today is whether or not one can demonstrate that Hittites ever inhabited Palestine or made sustained contacts with its peoples. Assyriology as a discipline would have profound relevance to Old Testament studies even if Abraham had not

 

The following extra abbreviations are used:

ABoT

Tablets in the Boghazköi Collection, Ankara Museum.

BoTU

E. Forrer, Die Boghazköi-Texte in Umschrift, Heinrichs, Leipzig(1922, 1926).

Hoffner EHG

H. A. Hoffner, ‘English-Hittite Glossary’, RHA 80 (1967).

IBoT

Tablets in the Boghazköi Collection, Istanbul Museum.

KBo

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