August 8, 2000
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Addresses |
Office: The Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th St., Chicago, IL 60637, USA. Office voice phone: (773) 702-9527; fax phone: (773) 702-9853. e-mail: h-hoffner@uchicago.edu. Home: 8421 Creekside Ln., Darien, IL 60561, U.S.A.; Home tel. (630) 910-1840. e-mail: h-hoffner@uchicago.edu. |
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Birth |
November 27, 1934, Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.A., the third child of Harry Angier and Madaline Wolford Hoffner. |
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Citizenship |
U.S. citizen. |
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Marital |
Married to Winifred Way on June 21, 1958. Three children born in 1959, 1961, 1965. |
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Education |
Undergraduate: B.A. Cum Laude from Princeton University, 1956. Graduate: 1956-60 Dallas Theological Seminary, Master of Theology degree with Highest Honors in 1960. 1960-63 Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, Master of Arts (1961) and Doctor of Philosophy (1963) degrees in Ancient Mediterranean Studies. |
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Fellowships, Awards and Grants |
From 1961-1963 held a Title VI National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship for the study of Arabic. Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Reference Tools Division, for the Hittite Dictionary in the years 1976, 1979, 1982, 1985, 1988, 1991 and 1994. |
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Teaching |
2000 to the present. The John A. Wilson Professor of Hittitology Emeritus at The University of Chicago. 1996 to 2000. The John A. Wilson Professor of Hittitology at The University of Chicago. |
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Acting Director of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago from July 18 to August 18, 1997 |
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1974-96. Professor of Hittitology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, teaching Hittite language, history and civilization. |
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1969-74 Associate Professor of Assyriology and Hittitology at Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Taught Hittite, Akkadian and Egyptian. |
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1964-69 Assistant Professor of Anatolian Studies at Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass. Taught Hittite, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hebrew and Greek. |
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1963-64 Instructor in Hebrew and in Biblical Studies at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois. |
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Other Professional Experience |
Senior Editor, The Hittite Dictionary of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago (2000-present). Editor in Charge, The Hittite Dictionary of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago (1975-2000). Since 1976 the project has been partially funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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1992-2000. Member of the Editorial board of Writings From the Ancient World, sponsored by the Society of Biblical Literature. |
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1999-2001. President of the American Oriental Society Midwest Branch |
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1992-1995 The University of Chicago’s Delegate to the American Research Institute in Turkey. |
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1995 to 2002. Consultant to the Editors of the series The Context of Scripture, being published in the Netherlands by E. J. Brill. |
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Professional Societies |
Member, American Oriental Society, American Research Institute in Turkey, and American Schools of Oriental Research. |
Selected Bibliography
Monographs (sole author) The Laws of the Hittites. Ph. D. Dissertation, Brandeis University, 1963.
An English-Hittite Glossary (Revue Hittite et Asianique XXV/80). Paris: Klincksieck, 1967.
Alimenta Hethaeorum (American Oriental Series 55). New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1974.
Hittite Myths (Writings from the Ancient World 2). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1990.
The Laws of the Hittites. A Critical Edition (Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui, 23). Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1997.
Hittite Myths. Second Edition Revised and Augmented (Writings from the Ancient World 2). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1998.
Monographs (joint author) With Gary M. Beckman, Hittite Fragments in American Collections Philadelphia: American Schools of Oriental Research, 1985.
With M. Eren, Istanbul Arkeoloji Müzelerinde bulunan Bogazköy Tabletleri IV. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1988.
With H. G. Güterbock, The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago L-N. Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1989.
With H. G. Güterbock, The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago P (fascicle 1). Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1994.
With H. G. Güterbock, The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago P (fascicle 2). Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1995.
With H. G. Güterbock, The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago P (fascicle 3). Chicago: The Oriental Institute, 1997.
Monographs (Editor) Orient and Occident. Essays Presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday. Alter Orient und Altes Testament. Band 22, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. (Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1973).
Kanissuwar: A Tribute to Hans G. Güterbock on his Seventy-fifth Birthday, May 27, 1983. Assyriological Studies 23, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. and Gary M. Beckman (Chicago, The Oriental Institute, 1986).
Perspectives on Hittite Civilization: Selected Writings of Hans Gustav Güterbock, Assyriological Studies 26, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. (Chicago, The Oriental Institute, 1997).
Beckman, Gary M., Hittite Diplomatic Texts, Writings from the Ancient World 7, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. (Atlanta: Scholars Press. 1997).
Selected Articles
"An English-Ugaritic Index." In Ugaritic Textbook, edited by Cyrus Herzl Gordon, 530-37. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1965.
"Hittite Law." In The Biblical World, edited by Charles Pfeiffer, 353-56. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1966.
"Hittites." In The Biblical World, edited by Charles Pfeiffer, 290-94. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1966.
"The Hittite Particle -pat." In Festschrift Heinrich Otten, edited by Erich Neu and Christel Rüster, 99-118. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1973.
"The Hittites and Hurrians." In Peoples of Old Testament Times, edited by Donald J. Wiseman, 197-228. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973.
"Incest, Sodomy and Bestiality in the Ancient near East." In Orient and Occident. Essays Presented to Cyrus H. Gordon on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr., 81-90. Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1973.
"The Arzana House." In Anatolian Studies Presented to Hans Gustav Güterbock on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, edited by Kurt Bittel, Philo H. J. Houwink ten Cate and Erica Reiner, 113-22. Istanbul: Nederlands Historisch-Archaeologisch Institut in Het Nabije Oosten, 1974.
"Hittite Mythological Texts: A Survey." In Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient near East, edited by Hans Goedicke and J. J. M. Roberts, 136-45. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975.
"Propaganda and Political Justification in Hittite Historiography." In Unity and Diversity: Essays in the History, Literature, and Religion of the Ancient near East, edited by Hans Goedicke and J. J. M. Roberts, 49-62. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1975.
"Hittite Lexicographic Studies, 1." In Essays on the Ancient near East in Memory of Jacob Joel Finkelstein, edited by Maria deJong Ellis, 105-11. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1977.
"The Hittite Word for ‘Tribe’." In Studia Mediterranea Piero Meriggi Dicata, edited by Onofrio Carruba, 261-66. Pavia: Aurora Edizioni, 1979.
"Religions of the Biblical World: Asia Minor." In The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, edited by Geoffrey W. Bromiley, Everett F. Harrison, Roland K. Harrison and William Sanford LaSor, 79-85. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1979–88.
"The Hurrian Story of the Sungod, the Cow and the Fisherman." In Studies on the Civilization and Culture of Nuzi and the Hurrians in Honor of E. R. Lacheman, edited by M. Morrison and D.I. Owen, 189-94. Winona Lake, Ind.: James Eisenbraun, 1981.
"Hittite man and numan." In Investigationes Philologicae Et Comparativae. Gedenkschrift Für Heinz Kronasser, edited by Erich Neu, 38-45. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1982.
"Tessub." In The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: MacMillan, 1985.
"Studies in Hittite Grammar." In Kanissuwar: A Tribute to Hans G. Güterbock on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday, May 27, 1983, edited by Harry A. Hoffner, Jr. and Gary M. Beckman, 83-94. Chicago: Oriental Institute, 1986.
"Hittite Religion." In The Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by Mircea Eliade, 408-14. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1987.
"Hittite Terms for the Life Span." In Love & Death in the Ancient near East [Festschrift for Marvin Pope], edited by J. Marks and R. Good, 53-55. Guilford, CT, 1987.
"Descriptive Catalogue." In Bogazköy Tablets in the Archaeological Museums of Istanbul, edited by Mustafa Eren, xiii-xxxv. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1988.
"A Scene in the Realm of the Dead." In A Scientific Humanist. Studies in Memory of Abraham Sachs, edited by E. Leichty, M. deJ. Ellis and P. Gerardi, 191-99. Philadelphia: University Museum, 1988.
"The Song of Silver." In Documentum Asiae Minoris Antiquae, edited by Erich Neu and Christel Rüster, 143-66. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1988.
"Hittite Religion." In Religions of Antiquity, edited by Robert Seltzer, 69-79. New York: MacMillan Publishing Company, 1989.
"The Ulmitesub Treaty (KBo 4.10 = CTH 106) with a New Join." In Anatolia and the Ancient near East: Studies in Honor of Tahsin Özgüç, edited by Kutlu Emre, Barthel Hrouda, Machteld Mellink and Nimet Özgüç, 199-204. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1989.
"Advice to a King." In Hittite and Other Anatolian and near Eastern Studies in Honour of Sedat Alp, edited by Heinrich Otten, Ekrem Akurgal, Hayri Ertem and Aygül Süel, 295-304. Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu Basimevi, 1992.
"The Last Days of Khattusha." In The Crisis Years: The 12th Century B.C. From Beyond the Danube to the Tigris, edited by William A. Ward and Martha S. Joukowsky, 46-52. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1992.
"Studies in the Hittite Particles, II: On Some Uses of -Kan." In Per Una Grammatica Ittita: Towards a Hittite Grammar, edited by Onofrio Carruba, 137-52. Pavia: IUCULANO, 1992.
"Akkadian summa immeru Texts and Their Hurro-Hittite Counterparts." In The Tablet and the Scroll. Near Eastern Studies in Honor of William W. Hallo, edited by Mark E. Cohen, Daniel C. Snell and David B. Weisberg, 116-19. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 1993.
"Milch(Produkte). B. Bei Den Hethitern." In Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 8, edited by Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meissner, Ernst Weidner, Wolfram von Soden and Dietz Otto Edzard, 702-06. Berlin, Leipzig and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1993.
"Syrian Cultural Influence in Hatti." In New Horizons in the Study of Ancient Syria, edited by Mark W. Chavalas. Malibu: UNDENA Publications, 1993.
"The Hittites." In Peoples of the Old Testament World, edited by Alfred J. Hoerth, Gerald L. Mattingly and Edwin M. Yamauchi, 127-56. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker, 1994.
"About Questions." In Studio Historiae Ardens. Ancient near Eastern Studies Presented to Philo H. J. Houwink Ten Cate on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, edited by Theo P. J. van den Hout and Johan de Roos, 87-104. Istanbul: Institut historique et archéologique néerlandais de Stamboul, 1995.
"Hittite immakku: "Moreover" or "Just Now"?" In Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Hittitologia, edited by Onofrio Carruba, Mauro Giorgieri and Clelia Mora, 191-94. Pavia: Iuculano, 1995.
"Legal and Social Institutions of Hittite Anatolia." In Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, edited by Jack M. Sasson, Karen Rubinson, John Baines and Gary M. Beckman, 555-70. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1995.
"From Head to Toe in Hittite." In Go to the Land I Will Show You: Studies in Honor of Dwight W. Young, edited by Joseph Coleson and Victor Matthews, 247-59. Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1996.
"Appu and His Two Sons." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 153-55. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"Crossing of the Taurus." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 184-85. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"Deeds of Åuppiluliuma." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 185-92. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"Hittite." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the near East, edited by Eric M. Meyers, 3:81-84. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
"The Hittite Conquest of Cyprus: Two Inscriptions of Suppiluliuma II." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 192-93. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"The Hittite Laws." In Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor. Second Edition, edited by Martha T. Roth, 211-47. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.
"Hittites." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the near East, edited by Eric M. Meyers, 3:84-88. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
"Mühle, Bei Den Hethitern." In Reallexikon Der Assyriologie Und Vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 8, edited by Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meissner, Ernst Weidner, Wolfram von Soden and Dietz Otto Edzard, 400-01. Berlin, Leipzig and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1997.
"On Homicide in Hittite Law." In Crossing Boundaries and Linking Horizons: Studies in Honor of Michael C. Astour on His 80th Birthday, edited by Richard Averbeck, Mark W. Chavalas and Gordon Young. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press, 1997.
"On Safari in Hittite Anatolia." In Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel: Part One. Ancient Languages and Philology, edited by Dorothy Disterheft, Martin Huld and John A. C. Greppin, 5-21. Washington, DC: Institute for the Study of Man, 1997.
"Proclamation of Anitta of Kussar." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 182-84. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"The Queen of Kanesh and the Tale of Zalpa." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 181-82. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"The Sun God and the Cow." In The Context of Scripture. Volume I: Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World, edited by William W. Hallo and K. Lawson Younger, Jr., 155-56. Leiden: Brill, 1997.
"Agricultural Perspectives on Hittite Laws § 167-169." In Acts of the IIIrd International Congress of Hittitology. Çorum, September 16-22, 1996, edited by Sedat Alp and Aygül Süel, 319-30. Ankara: Grafik, Teknik Hazirlik Uyum Ajans, 1998.
"Hurrian Civilization from a Hittite Perspective." In Urkesh/Mozan Studies 3: Urkesh and the Hurrians. Studies in Honor of Lloyd Cotsen, edited by Giorgio Buccellati and Marilyn Kelly-Buccellati, 167-200. Malibu, California: Undena, 1998.
"Nachlass. D. Bei Den Hethitern." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 9, edited by Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meissner, Ernst Weidner, Wolfram von Soden and Dietz Otto Edzard, 44-45. Berlin, Leipzig and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998.
"Name, Namengebung. C. Bei Den Hethitern." In Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archäologie. Band 9, edited by Erich Ebeling, Bruno Meissner, Ernst Weidner, Wolfram von Soden and Dietz Otto Edzard, 116-21. Berlin, Leipzig and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1998.
"On the Denominative Verb arawe-." In Mír Curad. Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins, edited by Jay Jasanoff, H. Craig Melchert and Lisi Olivier, 275-84. Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck, 1998.
"Hittite Archives." In The Archaeology of Anatolia: An Encyclopedia, edited by G. Kenneth Sams. Ankara: Bilkent University, 2000.
"The Hittite King." In Text, Artifact, and Image: Revealing Ancient Israelite Religion (Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies), edited by Gary M. Beckman. Univ. of Pennsylvania. Center for Judaic Studies. Philadelphia, PA, 2000.
"Hittite." In Beyond Babel: A Handbook for Biblical Hebrew and Related Languages, edited by John Kaltner and Steven L. McKenzie: Society of Biblical Literature, forthcoming in 2001.
