This volume presents a collection of articles, which were given as lectures at the occasion of a conference in Konstanz. They deal with the archive of Emar whic

Late Hittite Emar examines the economic and juridical texts from ancient Emar (modern Tell Meskene-Qadime) with a basically threefold task in view. The first is

This book aims to place Emar's scribal school institution within its social and historical context.

In The Politics of Ritual Change, John Thames explores the intersection of ritual and politics in the zukru festival texts from Emar and suggests a new understa