Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty

Further Reading

Articles

• Bryce, Trevor. “The ‘Eternal Treaty’ from the Hittite Perspective.” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 6 (October 2006): 1–11. Available online. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/bmsaes/issue_6/bryce.aspx.
• Jakob, Stefan. “Pharaoh and His Brothers.” British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 6 (October 2006): 12–30. Available online. http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/bmsaes/issue_6/jakob.aspx.
• Schulman, Alan R. “Aspects of Ramesside Diplomacy: The Treaty of Year 21.” Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquity 8 (1977–1978): 112–130.
• Sürenhagen, Dietrich. “Forerunners of the Hattusili-Ramesses Treaty.” Available online. British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 6 (October 2006): 59–67. http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/6e%20Forerunners.pdf.

Books

• Beckman, Gary. Hittite Diplomatic Texts. Atlanta: Society for Biblical Literature, 1996.
• Brand, Peter J. “Ideological Imperatives: Irrational Factors in Egyptian-Hittite Relations under Ramesses II.” in Moving across Borders: Foreign Relations, Religion, and Cultural Interactions in the Ancient Mediterranean, eds. P. Kousoulis and K. Magliveras. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters, 2007.
• Bryce, Trevor. The Kingdom of the Hittites. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
• Darnell, John Coleman, and Colleen Manassa. Tutankhamun's Armies: Battle and Conquest during Ancient Egypt's Late Eighteenth Dynasty. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
• Goelet, Ogden, and Baruch A. Levine. “Making Peace in Heaven and on Earth: Religious and Legal Aspects of the Treaty between Ramesses II and Hattušili III.” In Boundaries of the Ancient Near Eastern World: A Tribute to Cyrus H. Gordon, eds. Meir Lubetski, Claire Gottlieb, and Sharon Keller. Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
• Kitchen, Kenneth A. Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt. Warminster, U.K.: Aris & Phillips, 1983.
• ———. Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated, Notes and Comments, Vol. 2: Ramesses II, Royal Inscriptions. Oxford, U.K.: Blackwell, 1999.
• Liverani, Mario. International Relations in the Ancient Near East, 1600–1100 b.c. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
• Murnane, William J. The Road to Kadesh: A Historical Interpretation of the Battle Reliefs of King Sety I at Karnak. 2nd ed. Chicago: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 1990.
• Redford, Donald B. Egypt, Canaan, and Israel in Ancient Times. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1992.