Religious Convergence in Hittite Anatolia: The Case of Kizzuwatna

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Abstract

The flow of ritual texts from Kizzuwatna has been extensively studied in recent years, both from religious-historical as well as from sociolinguistic, textual, redactional and archival perspectives. These studies provide an excellent vantage point to explore the modes and mechanisms of religious convergence in Hittite Anatolia. However, these studies have also considerably problematized the social embeddedness of these rituals, their alleged performance, and therefore also their relevance to the question of religious convergence.¹ Thence, it may be instructive to approach the question of Hittite-Kizzuwatnian religious convergence with an occurrence narrated in a different genre altogether, a historical text, the so-called
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationReligious Convergence in the Ancient Mediterranean
EditorsSandra Blakely, Billie Jean Collins
Place of PublicationAtlanta
Chapter9
Pages173-190
Number of pages18
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Publication series

NameStudies in ancient Mediterranean religions
Volume2

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