The Hittite Historical Annals: Origins, Purpose, and Afterlife

艾美奖Noether初级研究小组“赫梯历史年鉴：起源，目的和来世”将新编辑和研究作为一个跨学科的赫梯人和亚述人的赫梯王国（公元前1650-1190年，安纳托利亚中部和北方叙利亚），青铜时代晚期古代近东地区的超级大国之一。赫梯编年史是记录赫梯国王政治和军事成就的史学文本。赫梯编年史的直接，现实的风格和丰富的细节使他们成为古代近东历史最常用的历史来源之一。然而，年鉴从来没有在一个地方，在一种语言，并以相同的格式和标准编辑。此外，尽管在历史研究中大量使用，赫梯编年史中的生活状况仍然存在争议，编年史的叙事机制，体裁的历时发展，以及最重要的是，文本的交际功能仍然是突出的研究问题。该研究小组将由一名希提学家领导，由两名博士生组成，他们参加了一个亚述学-希提学联合项目和一个为期四年的亚述学博士后研究职位。该小组将产生以下具体成果：-包含赫梯编年史的综合版本的专著，所有音译对照原始片剂，广泛的评论，以前的二级文献分析，以及对该流派的发展，功能和接受的序言研究;-赫梯编年史的并行数字版本由Hethitologie-Portal Mainz在线托管;- 关于阿卡德国王传说、古赫梯神话历史文本和赫梯编年史之间的文学联系的论文;- 一篇关于赫梯中期和新时期史学写作的论文，包括条约，法令，信件和祈祷的段落;-一篇关于中亚述史诗和编年史及其与赫梯史学传统的联系（如果有的话）的专著;- 一篇关于古巴比伦时期周边阿卡德语历史文本对赫梯编年史的影响（如果有的话）的文章。该项目将包括两个会议。第一个将致力于在公元前2000年早期繁荣的历史化文学古代近东，并邀请来自Hittitology，Assyriology和Ancientology的研究人员介绍他们的地区。第二次会议将研究大约500年后，在青铜时代晚期结束和铁器时代早期开始时，同一地区的宣传历史叙述。

The Emmy Noether Junior Research Group "The Hittite Historical Annals: Origins, Purpose, and Afterlife" will newly edit and study as an inter-disciplinary team of Hittitologists and Assyriologists the annals of the Hittite Kingdom (1650–1190 B.C., Central Anatolia and northern Syria), one of the great super-regional powers of the Ancient Near East of the Late Bronze Age. The Hittite annals were historiographical texts recording the political and military accomplishments of the Hittite kings. The straightforward, realistic style and richness of detail of the Hittite annals has made them among the most used historical sources of Ancient Near Eastern history. Yet the annals have never been edited in one place, in one language, and to the same format and standard. Moreover, despite their intensive use in historical research, the Sitz im Leben of the Hittite Annals is still disputed, and the narrative mechanics of the annals, the diachronic development of the genre, and, above all, the communicative function of the texts remain as outstanding research questions. The research group will be led by a Hittitologist and comprise two doctoral students in a joint Assyriology-Hittitology program and a four-year Assyriology post-doctoral research position. The group will produce the following concrete results:- A monograph containing a comprehensive edition of the Hittite annals, with all transliterations collated against original tablets, extensive commentary, analysis of previous secondary literature, and prefatory studies on the development, function, and reception of the genre;- parallel digital editions of the Hittite annals hosted online by the Hethitologie-Portal Mainz;- a dissertation on the literary connections between the legends of the kings of Akkad, the Old Hittite mythological-historical texts, and the Hittite annals;- a dissertation on historiographical writing in the Middle and New Hittite periods including passages from treaties, decrees, letters, and prayers;- a monograph on the Middle Assyrian epics and annals and their connections (if any) to the Hittite historiographical tradition;- an article on the influence (if any) of the peripheral Akkadian historical texts of the Old Babylonian period on the Hittite annals.The project will include two conferences. The first will be dedicated to the historicizing literature that flourished in the early 2nd millennium B.C. Ancient Near East and invite researchers from Hittitology, Assyriology, and Egyptology to present on their regions. The second conference will examine the propagandizing historical narratives of the same regions some half a millennium later at the end of the Late Bronze Age and start of the Early Iron Age.