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The Laws of the Hittttes: A Critical Edition. By Harry Angier Hoffher Jr. Leiden: E.J. Brill1997. Pp. xx, 362. $156.00. ISBN: 9-004-10874-2.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2002

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References

1. The present work is a substantial revision of Hoffner's 1963 doctoral dissertation, The Laws of the Hittites (Brandeis U.), which was not technically a critical edition of the laws, but a new translation.

2. Friedrich, Johannes, Die hethitischen Gesteze; Transkription, Übersetzung, sprachliche Erläuterungen und vollstäindiges Wörterverzeichnis (E.J. Brill 1959)Google Scholar.

3. This was already done by Haase, R., Die Fragmente der hethitischen Gesteze (Otto Harrassowitz 1968)Google Scholar, but his work was not a critical edition.

4. Hoffher is co-editor of The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago project.

5. Roth, Martha Tobi, Hoffner, Harry A. & Michalowski, Piotr, Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor (2d ed., Scholars Press 1997)Google Scholar.