The class readings are located either among the course textbooks, or they are available for downloading
and reading by linking to them from this "Reading Assignments"-web page. Over the course of the semester,
the instructor might make others available through the Addlestone Library (reference, reserve, or periodicals
sections). Those citations in the reading list below not found in the course textbooks are marked with the
locator code:
EBK = Electronic book (ebook) available online from library catalog;
ELJ = Electronic journal available through searching and downloading from JStore;
Ref = Addlestone Library Reference Section;
Res = Addlestone Library course reserve;
W = this Web Page.
The virtual textbooks include ebooks of the following: (NB: click/link, then "View Online | Full text availability"...).
Week 1: January 10 and 12 (1/12) Introduction: Course Description, Defining Issues and Eras (1/13) Friday: Last day to Add/Drop _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 2: January 17 and 19 (1/17-19) Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Historical Method and Historical Questioning W Piccione, "From Queries to Answers: A Taxonomy of Historical Questioning" (click to open). W Orwell, "Politics and the English Language" (click to open) W Piccione, "What is Historical Writing?" (click to open) _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 3: January 24 and 26 (1/24) Introduction to Ancient Egypt Shaw, Oxford History, "Introduction: Chronologies and Cultural Change" (Shaw), 1-15; Shaw, Oxford History, "Egypt and the Outside World" (Shaw), 308-321 (only!); Shaw, Oxford History, "Emergence of the Egyptian State" (Bard), 57-82. (1/26) Hittite Historiography Bryce, Kingdom, Appendix 1, "Chronology" 375-382; Bryce, Kingdom, Appendix 2, "Sources for Hittite History" 383-392. _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 4: January 31 and February 2 (1/31) Ancient Anatolia and the Origins of the Hittites Bryce, Kingdom, "Preface" and "Introduction," xvii-xix, 1-7; Bryce, Kingdom, Ch. 1, "Origins of the Hittites," 8-20. (2/2) Ancient Egypt: The Old Kingdom Shaw, Oxford History, "The Old Kingdom" (Malek), 83-107; W "The Autobiography of Weni," (AEL 1, 18-22); (click to open); W "The Autobiography of Harkhuf," (AEL 1, 23-27) (click to open). MAP ASSIGNMENT #1: WESTERN ASIA & EGYPT (upload due 2/12/23) Map of Ancient Near East & Egypt. (Use maps of Egypt, Asia, & Hatti on "Classroom Visuals"-page to complete the answer sheet): Download MAP ASSIGNMENT #1 from OAKS. Preferably type answers on the Answer Sheets provided, and submit electronically. _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 5: February 7 and 9 (2/7) Early Bronze Age Anatolia: Indigenous Cultures and the Assyrian Colonies Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 2, "Assyrian Colony Period," 21-40; Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 3, "Territories and Early Rivals of Hatti," 41-60. (2/9) Egypt: First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom Shaw, Oxford History, "The First Intermediate Period" (Seidelmaier), 108-136; Shaw, Oxford History, "The Middle Kingdom Renaissance" (Calender), 137-171; W "Annals of King Amenemhat II (extract)" [click to open]; W "The Loyalist Instructions from the Stela of Sehetepibre" (click to open); W "Sesostris III Boundary Stela of Year 8" (click to open); W "Boundary Stela of Sesostris III [Year 16]," Lichtheim, AEL 1 (click to open). (2/12) Upload Due: Map Exercise #1 Sunday, 6:00 p.m. to OAKS "MAP ASSIGNMENT #1"-folder (DOC, DOCX, or PDF-formats only). _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 6: February 14 and 16 (2/14) The Old Kingdom of Hatti Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 4, "The Foundations of the Kingdom," 61-95; Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 5, "The Struggles for the Royal Succession," 96-120; Beckman, Diplomatic Texts, "Treaty between a King of Hatti and Paddatissu of Kizzuwatna," 11-13; EBK Hoffner, Letters, "An Old Hittite Letter: Hattušili I to Tuniya, King of Tikunani," 75-79. Ref/EBK "Proclamation of Telepinu" in Hallo, Context of Scripture 1, 194-198; (click to open) Ref/EBK "Bilingual Edict of Hattušili I," in Hallo, Context of Scripture 2, 79-81 (click to open). (2/16) Egypt: The Second Intermediate Period and Early New Kingdom (Dynasty 18) Shaw, Oxford History, "The Second Intermediate Period" (Bourriau), 172-206; W Wente, E. F., "The Quarrel of Apophis and Seknenre," 77-80 (click to open); W Smith, H. S. and Smith A., "The Kamose Texts," 59-62 (click to open); W "Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 12-15 (click to open); W "Autobiography of Ahmose Pennekhbet," adapted from Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt 2 (passim) (click to open); W "The Praises of (Queen) Ahhotep" (click to open). (2/19) Due Sunday, 6:00 p.m.: Video Assignment (YouTube video, access directly): Dr. Anne Gunter, "Tracking the Frontiers of the Hittite Empire" (57:27 mins.--actual lecture begins at 7:16 mins.). Writing Assignment. Write a 1-page (single space) précis on Prof. Gunter's lecture that answers the following questions: What are the main issues presented in the lecture, and what kinds of evidence does Prof. Gunter marshal to prove her point? What can material goods like pottery, etc., reveal about the expansion of Hittite culture and civilization? What does the standardization of ceramic production and pottery marking indicate about the nature of Hittite imperial power and Hittite identity? Upload to OAKS "VIDEO ASSIGNMENT #1"-folder (DOC, DOCX, or PDF-formats only). _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 7: February 21 and 23 (2/21-23) The Hittite New Kingdom Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 6, "A New Era Begins," 121-153; Ref/EBK Beal, R., "Hittite Military Organization," in CANE 1, 545-554; Beckman, Diplomatic Texts, New Kingdom Treaties no. 2-5, 7-8, pp. 11-37, 50-64. (2/24) Writing Assignment #1 distributed in OAKS & via email (due 3/3). _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 8: February 28 and March 2 (2/28) The Start of the Egyptian Empire Shaw, Oxford History, "The Eighteenth Dynasty before the Amarna Period" (Bryan), 207-264; W "The Annals of Thutmose III," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 29-35. (click to open); W "Armant Stela of Thutmose III," in ANET, 234 (click to open) W Moran, W. Amarna Letters, "A Letter in Hurrian about Marriage and Friendship," EA no. 24, pp. 63-71; W "Marriage Scarab of Amenhotep III: Princess Gilukhepa" (click to open). (3/2) The Hurrians and the Kingdom of Mitanni Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 7, "The Supremacy of Hatti, 154-163; Ref/EBK Wilhelm, G., "The Kingdom of Mitanni in Second Millennium Upper Mesopotamia," in CANE 1, 289-302; Beckman, Diplomatic Texts, Hittite-Mitannian Treaties no. 6 A-B, pp. 37-49. (3/3) Friday: MIDTERM GRADES DUE AT NOON (3/3) Upload Due: Writing Assignment #1 by 11:30 p.m. to OAKS "WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1" -folder (DOC, DOCX, or PDF-format only). _______________________________________________________________________________ + + + SPRING BREAK: March 5 through 11 + + + Start Text Reading: W. Murnane, The Road to Kadesh. _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 9: March 14 and 16 (3/14-16) Empire Building in Egypt, Nubia and Asia Shaw, Oxford History, "Egypt and the Outside World" (Shaw), 308-323; W "The Capture of Joppa," in Simpson, et al., LAE, 81-84 (click to open); W "Gebel Barkal Stela," in ANET, 240 (click to open); W "Biography of Amenemheb," in ANET, 240-241 (click to open); W Moran, W. Amarna Letters, "Marriage Negotiations in Hittite (with Arzawa) EA nos. 31-32, pp. 101-103; W "The Campaigns of Amenhotep II in Syria (and Against Mitanni) (click to open). (3/16) Video (in class): "The Dark Lords of Hattusha" (59:02 mins.) _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 10: March 21 and 23 (3/21-23) Egypt: The Amarna Period and the Amarna Letters Shaw, Oxford History, "The Amarna Period and the later New Kingdom" (Van Dijk), 265-285 (only!); EBK Murnane, Kadesh, ch. 1, "Egypt's Relations with Hatti from the Amarna Period . . . ," 1-38; W Moran, W. Amarna Letters, (diplomatic exchanges) EA nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 17, 26, pp. 12-23, 41-42, 84-85 (click to open); W Moran, W. Amarna Letters, "Of Egyptian-Hittite Relations," EA no. 41; W Moran, W. Amarna Letters, "Of the Villain Aitukama (of Kadesh)" EA no. 53, pp. 125-126; W Moran, W. Amarna Letters, (military exchanges) EA nos. 51, 52, 182, 183, 185, 186, 191, 202, 203, 204, 205, 337, 366, 367, pp. 12-23, 41-42, 84-85 (click to open) (3/24) Last day to withdraw with grade of "W" _______________________________________________________________________________ Week 11: March 28 and 30 (3/28-30) Egypt and Hatti: The Later New Kingdom (Dynasties 19-20) Shaw, Oxford History, "The Amarna Period and the later New Kingdom" (Van Dijk), 285-307; Bryce, Kingdom, ch. 7, "The Supremacy of Hatti, 163-189; EBK Murnane, Kadesh, ch. 2, "Sety I's Early Wars in Western Asia" 39-50; EBK Murnane, Kadesh, ch. 3, "The Later Wars of Sety I" 51-71; W "Restoration Stela of Tutankhamun," in ANET, 251-252 (click to open); W "Texts from the Tomb of General Horemheb," in ANET, 250-251 (click to open); W ☆"Suppiluliumas and the Egyptian Queen," in ANET, 319; (click to open); W ☆Extract from "Plague Prayers of Mursilis," in ANET, 394-395 (click to open); W ☆Eyma, A., "Hittite Correspondence in the Zannanza Affair," extracted from Egyptology Electronic Forum (click to open).
| Writing Assignment: Video Lecture (due 4/4; upload to OAKS): "ROBERT RITNER & THEO VAN DEN HOUT, THE BATTLE OF KADESH: A DEBATE (click to open). Instructions: First, read all the assigned readings this and next week in the order they are listed. Then Write a single integrated essay, as a reaction paper (1000 words, single spaced, 12 pt. Times-Roman font, 1"-inch margins, no footnotes), on the lecture of Drs. Ritner and van den Hout about Egyptian-Hittite relations and the Battle of Kadesh. ! Consider and include the assigned readings, especially the documents marked with the star (☆)! (1) Describe the main points that Ritner and van den Hout make in their debate. (2) Are they always agreeing or disagreeing? (3) What do the assigned readings reveal, where appropriate? (4) To what extent do the lecturers agree or disagree on who won the battle? (5) What important points do they omit or leave out? |