The Hittite Historical Annals: Origins, Purpose, and Afterlife

艾美奖诺伊特少年研究小组“赫梯历史编年史：起源、目的和来世”将作为一个由赫梯学家和亚述学者组成的跨学科团队新编辑和研究赫梯王国(公元前1650-1190年，安纳托利亚中部和叙利亚北部)的编年史，赫梯王国是古代近东地区青铜时代晚期的超级大国之一。赫梯编年史是记录赫梯国王政治和军事成就的史学文献。赫梯编年史直截了当、写实的风格和丰富的细节使其成为古代近东历史上使用最多的史料之一。然而，编年史从未在一个地方、以一种语言、以相同的格式和标准进行过编辑。此外，尽管《赫梯编年史》在历史研究中得到了广泛的应用，但《赫梯编年史》仍然存在争议，编年史的叙事机制，该体裁的历时发展，尤其是文本的交际功能仍然是悬而未决的研究问题。该研究小组将由一名亚述学专家领导，并包括两名参加亚述-亚述学联合项目的博士生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：-一本载有赫梯编年史综合版本的专著，所有音译都与原始碑文对照，广泛的评论，对以前的二手文献的分析，以及关于这一流派的发展、功能和接受的预言性研究；-由Hethitologie-PortalMainz在线主办的平行的赫梯编年史的电子版；-关于阿卡德国王的传说、旧赫梯神话历史文本和赫梯编年史之间的文学联系的论文；-关于中新希梯时期史学写作的论文，包括条约、法令、信件和祈祷的段落；-一本关于中世纪亚述史诗和编年史及其与赫梯史学传统的联系(如果有)的专著；-一篇关于旧巴比伦时期阿卡德周边历史文献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。第一个将致力于繁荣于公元前2世纪初古代近东的史学文献，并邀请来自历史学、亚述学和埃及学的研究人员介绍他们的地区。第二次会议将审查大约五千年后青铜时代晚期和铁器时代早期开始时相同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.