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STUDIES IN LEGAL SYMBOLIC ACTS IN MESOPOTAMIAN LAW.
- Format:
- Book
- Thesis/Dissertation
- Author/Creator:
- Malul, Meir.
- Subjects (All):
- Extinct languages.
- 0289.
- Local Subjects:
- 0289.
- Physical Description:
- 649 pages
- Contained In:
- Dissertation Abstracts International 44-12A.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- There has been until now no major and comprehensive study of the phenomenon of legal symbolism in ancient Mesopotamian law. The available studies have been unsystematic and lack clear and defined methodology in the study of legal symbolism.
- The present study is a preliminary step toward a comprehensive study of legal symbolism in Mesopotamian law. It offers a model of analysis of symbolic acts which includes definitions and criteria for isolating and identifying symbolic acts on three levels: Morphology (the form of the symbolic act), Semantics (the legal meaning of the symbolic act), and Etymology (the symbolic meaning of the symbolic act). This model of analysis has been applied to a large sample of Mesopotamian symbolic acts from four legal categories: Law of Person, Law of Obligation, Law of Conveyance, and Law of Procedure.
- Following this model of analysis it has been possible to identify symbolic acts as such and to delineate them from other written modes of expression such as technical expressions, legal figures of speech, and remarks alluding to technical acts.
- The sample of symbolic acts analyzed in this study exhibits some general patterns pertaining to the phenomenon of legal symbolism in general, such as the type of relation between the symbol and symbolized, the source of the constitutive legal power of symbolic acts, the relative importance of symbolic acts and written documents, and the symbolic conceptualization of legal relationship by the Mesopotamians. These general patterns have been presented in a summary fashion in the final chapter of the study together with some suggestions for future research.
- Notes:
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-12, Section: A, page: 3672.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
- Local Notes:
- School code: 0175.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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