Steitler, Charles W.: The Solar Deities of Bronze Age Anatolia. Studies in Texts of the Early Hittite Kingdom. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2017. XX, 605 S. 8° = Studien zu den Boğazköy-Texten 62. Hartbd. € 98,00. ISBN 978-3-447-10798-3.

This very ambitious attempt to treat the entire spectrum of solar deities worshiped in second millennium Anatolia is a revised version of the author’s doctoral dissertation defended at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg in 2014. Steitler desired the study to be a diachronic and milieu-oriented approach, “as representative as possible of Hittite religion as a whole”. The Orientalistische Literaturzeitung is the oldest international review journal covering the field of Oriental studies. Founded in 1898, in keeping with the development of the field, it has widened its scope and covers all time periods. The journal offers reviews of monographs in all subject areas of the field as well as essays on topics in current scholarship, providing the reader with comprehensive information on the current state of research.