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Theo van den Hout
Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages
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Office:
The Oriental Institute
1155 East 58th Street, 317
Chicago, IL 60637
773-834-4688
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Ph.D.,
Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1989
Teaching at Chicago since 2000. |
Email: tvdhout@uchicago.edu |
| SPECIAL
INTERESTS: Hittite Language and Literature, Anatolian languages
and the history of Anatolia in the pre-classic times.
Executive Editor, Chicago Hittite Dictionary and Managing Editor,
Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions |
Theo van den Hout
Professor of Hittite and Anatolian Languages
Theo van den Hout is probably best described as a philologist with
strong
linguistic interests. Linguistics was the initial focus of his research
but it gradually shifted to more general questions of a
cultural-historical
nature. His dissertation (1989, published as a monograph in 1995)
consisted
of both a philological edition of a Late-Hittite treaty and a
prosopography
of the leading officials of the Hittite empire of the second half of
the
13th century B.C. That period has since then been the center of his
further
historical-philological research. This resulted in his second book
(1998)
which identified and edited a large group of oracle texts and used it a
source
for Hittite history. His recent philological project concerns a new
edition
of the extensive Royal Hittite Death Ritual.
In his linguistic research he tries to combine the Hittite data with
those
of the other Anatolian languages like Luwian, Lycian, Lydian and
Carian. The growing importance of the not related Hurrian has led him
in recent
years to get more involved with that language as well.
Together with the emeritus Harry A. Hoffner he is co-editor of the
Chicago
Hittite Dictionary and currently working on the S-volume. He is also
managing
editor of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions.
Education:
Recent Publications:
Monographs:
– as sole author
- 1995 Der Ulmiteåub-Vertrag. Eine prosopographische
Untersuchung. Studien zu den Bo©azköy-Texten (StBoT),
Heft 38, xx + 326 pp. Wiesbaden.
- 1998 The Purity of Kingship. An Edition of CTH 569 and
Related
Hittite Oracle Inquiries of Tutæaliya IV. Documenta et
Monumenta
Orientis Antiqui 25, xxi + 371pp + eight plates. Leiden, Boston,
Köln.
– with others
- 1991 The Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard with
H.G.
Güterbock, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,
Assyriological
Studies 24, xvi + 99 pp. Chicago, Illinois.
- 1999 Geschichte des Hethitischen Reiches von Horst
Klengel unter
Mitwirkung von Fiorella Imparati, Volkert Haas und Theo P.J. van den
Hout,
Handbuch der Orientalistik 1. Abt. 34. Band, xxvi + 428pp. + 63 Abb.,
Leiden,
Boston, Köln.
- 2002 The Hittite Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the
University
of Chicago, S Fascicle 1 sa-to saptamenzu, H.G.
Güterbock†,
H.A. Hoffner, Jr., Th.P.J. van den Hout, Chicago, viii + 208pp.
– as (co-)editor
- 1994 Hidden Futures. Death and Immortality in Ancient Egypt,
Anatolia,
the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World (Amsterdam
University
Press), edd. Jan Maarten Bremer, Theo P.J. van den Hout, Rudolph
Peters,
253 pp.
- 1995 Studio historiae ardens. Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Presented
to Philo H.J. Houwink ten Cate on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday
(PIHANS
74), edd. Theo P.J. van den Hout, Johan de Roos, xxviii + 344 pp.
Selected Articles
- 1984a "Einige luwische Neutra auf -åa-/-za-
in überwiegend
junghethitischen Texten" Zeitschrift für Vergleichende
Sprachforschung 97 (1984) 60-80.
- 1984b "Kurunta und die Datierung einiger hethitischen Texte" Revue
d'Assyriologie 78 (1984) 89-92.
- 1987 "Tasmiåarri: ein weiterer Beleg zum Corpus der
hurritischen
Sprachdenkmäler?" Revue d'Assyriologie 81 (1987) 161-164.
- 1988 "Hethitisch damaåå-/dameåå-mi
‘(be)drücken’
und der indogermanische sigmatische Aorist" in: A Linguistic
Happening
in Memory of Ben Schwartz, Studies in Anatolian, Italic, and other
Indo-European
Languages. (Ed. Y.L. Arbeitman, Louvain-la-Neuve) 305-319.
- 1989 "A Chronology of the Taræuntaååa Treaties"
Journal of Cuneiform Studies 41 (1989) 100-114.
- 1990a "Masse und Gewichte. Bei den Hethitern". Reallexikon
der
Assyriologie und der Vorderasiatischen Archäologie, hrsgb. von
D.O.
Edzard. Band 7 Lfg.7/8, 517-527, index 527-530.
- 1990b "Texts and Fragments. Hittite Fragments in Dutch
Collections"
in Journal of Cuneiform Studies 42 (1990 [1992]) 252-254
- 1991a "A Tale of Tiååaruli(ya): A dramatic interlude
in
the Hittite KI.LAM Festival?" Journal for Near Eastern Studies
50
(1991) 193-202.
- 1991b "Hethitische Thronbesteigungsorakel und die Inauguration
Tudæalijas.IV."
in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie 81 (1991) 274-300
- 1992c "Remarks on some Hittite double accusative constructions"
in Per una Grammatica Ittita. Towards a Hittite Grammar (Studia
Mediterranea vol. 7) ed. O. Carruba, Pavia 1992 [1993], 275-304.
- 1991-1992 "Some remarks on the Third Tablet of the Hittite KI.LAM
Festival" in Jaarbericht Ex Oriente Lux 32 (1991-1992 [1993])
101-118
- 1991-1992 "Bellum iustum, ius divinum: some thoughts about war
and
peace in Hittite Anatolia" in Grotiana, New Series
12-13 (1991-1992
[1994]) 13-35.
- 1994a "Träume einer hethitischen Königin: KUB LX 97+
?XXXI 71" in Altorientalische
Forschungen 21 (1994) 305-327.
- 1994b "Hethitisch
æadduli- 'gesund'" in Iranian and Indo-European Studies.
Memorial
Volume of Otakar Klíma, ed. P. Vavrouåek, (Praha 1994)
109-114.
- 1994c "Der Falke
und
das Kücken: der neue Pharao und der hethitische Prinz?" in Zeitschrift
für Assyriologie 84 (1994) 60-88.
- 1994d "Death as a
Privilege.
The Hittite Royal Funerary Ritual" in J.M. Bremer, Th.P.J. van den Hout
and
R. Peters (edd.), Hidden Futures. Death and Immortality in Ancient
Egypt,
Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic World
(Amsterdam),
37-75.
- 1995a "Lycian
Consonantal
Orthography and Some of its Consequences for Lycian Phonetics" in
Th.P.J.
van den Hout - J. de Roos (edd.), Studio Historiae Ardens. Ancient
Near
Eastern Studies presented to Philo H.J. Houwink ten Cate on the
Occasion
of his 65th Birthday (Leiden), 105-141.
- 1995c "Khattushili
III
of Khattusha" in Civilizations of the Ancient Near East, ed.
Jack
M. Sasson et al. (New York 1995), 1107-1120.
- 1995d "An Image of
the
Dead? Some remarks on the second day of the Hittite royal funerary
ritual"
in O. Carruba, C. Mora, M. Giorgieri (edd.), Atti del II Congresso
Internazionale
di Ittitologia (Pavia), 195-211.
- 1995e
"Tutæalija
IV. und die Ikonographie hethitischer Großkönige des 13.
Jhs.", Bibliotheca Orientalis 52 (1995) 545-573.
- 1995f "Lycian telêzi
(je)-" in Kadmos 34 (1995) 155-162.
- 1997a "The
Proclamation
of Telipinu" in W.W. Hallo - K. Lawson Younger (eds.), The Context
of
Scripture. Canonical Compositions from the Biblical World (Leiden),
vol. one, 194-198.
- 1997b The Apology
of
Æattuåili (I.B.3.b) in W.W. Hallo - K. Lawson Younger
(eds.), The Context of Scripture. Canonical Compositions from the
Biblical
World (Leiden), vol. one, 199-204.
- 1998a
"Æalpaziti,
König von Aleppo" in Altorientalische Forschungen 25 (1998
=
Festschrift für Horst Klengel) 68-74.
- 1999b "-ms(-):
A Carian enclitic pronoun?", Kadmos 38 (1999) 31-42.
- 1999c "Nerikkaili"
in
Reallexikon der Assyriologie 9, 231-232.
- 2001a "Neuter Plural Subjects and Nominal Predicates in
Anatolian"
in O. Carruba/W. Meid, Anatolisch und Indogermanisch/Anatolico e
Indoeuropeo.
Akten des Kolloquiums der Indorgermanischen Gesellschaft Pavia, 22.-25.
September 1998 (Innsbruck), 167-192.
- 2001b "Bemerkungen zu älteren hethitischen Orakeltexten" in
Th.
Richter/D. Prechel/J. Klinger (edd.), Kulturgeschichten.
Altorientalische
Studien für Volkert Haas zum 65. Geburtstag
(Saarbrücken),
423-440.
- 2001c "Zur Geschichte des jüngeren hethitischen
Reiches"
in G. Wilhem (ed.), Akten des IV. Internationalen
Kongresses für
Hethitologie, Würzburg, 4.-8. Oktober 1999 (Wiesbaden 2001 =
Studien
zu den Bo©azköy-Texten 45), 213-223.
- 2002a "Tombs and Memorials: The (Divine) Stone House and
Hegur
Reconsidered" in K.A. Yener/H.A. Hoffner/S. Dhesi (edd.), Recent
Developments
in Hittite Archaeology and History. Papers in Memory of Hans G.
Güterbock (Winona Lake 2002), 73-91.
- 2002b "Self, Soul and Portrait in Hieroglyphic Luwian", in P.
Taracha
(ed.), Silva Anatolica. Anatolian Studies Presented to Maciej Popko
on
the Occasion of His 65th Birthday (Warsaw 2002), 171-186.
- 2002c "Another View of Hittite Literature" in St. de Martino/F.
Pecchioli
Daddi (edd.), Anatolia Antica. Studi in memoria di Fiorella Imparati (=
Eothen
11, Firenze), 857-878.
- 2002e "'I Have Given You my Advice': Educational Principles of
the
Hittite Empire" at:
http://www.fathom.com/index.jhtml?pageName=/story/story.jhtml%3Fstory_id%3D122468
- 2003 "Miles of Clay: Information Management in the Ancient Near
Eastern
Hittite Empire" at:
http://www.fathom.com/story/story.jhtml?story_id=190247
- and numerous
reviews
