Singer (ancient Near Eastern history and cultures, Tel Aviv U.) has gathered 42 articles written over 35 years of his career, which has pivoted mostly on the Hittites. Among the topics are a political history of Ugarit, Hittite cultural influence in the kingdom of Amurru, the great scribe Taki-Sarruma, a Hittite-Assyrian diplomatic exchange in the late 13th century BCE, the Urhi-Tesub affair in the Hittite-Egyptian correspondence, and new evidence on the end of the Hittite empire. He has not indexed the collection. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the paperbound edition; Brill publishes the hardbound. Annotation 2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
