Diverse Remarks on the Hittite Instructions
Authors : Jared L Miller, An Obligation, Oath Genre
Pages : 6-25
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Publication Date : 2011-06-01
Article Type : Other
Abstract :The designation ‘obligation and oath’ for the genre in question is intended to highlight an understanding of these compositions according to which the ‘instructions’ or ‘prescriptions of obligations’, the isḫiul-, are part and parcel of one text genre together with the ‘oaths’, the lingai- see briefly Miller in press . These two elements jointly make up what can be understood as a ‘contract’ or ‘treaty’, in which the sovereign lays out the obligations being imposed upon the subject and the subject swears before the gods his commitment to them.Keywords : Hitit yönetmelikleri, Orta Hitit yönetimi, Kralî Muhafız Yönetmelikleri