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A history of ancient Near Eastern law / edited by Raymond Westbrook ; editorial board, Gary Beckman ... [et al.].
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity - Book Archive 2000-2006 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Handbuch der Orientalistik. Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; Erste Abteilung, 72. Bd.
- Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; v. 72 = Handbuch der Orientalistik
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Law--Middle East--History.
- Law.
- Law, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1229 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Brill, 2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law.
- Contents:
- Preliminary material / RAYMOND WESTBROOK
- INTRODUCTION: THE CHARACTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LAW / Raymond Westbrook
- EGYPT: OLD KINGDOM AND FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow
- MESOPOTAMIA: EARLY DYNASTIC AND SARGONIC PERIODS / Claus Wilcke
- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-SUMERIAN PERIOD (UR III) / Bertrand Lafont and Raymond Westbrook
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: EBLA / Amalia Catagnoti
- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM / Jerrold Cooper
- EGYPT: MIDDLE KINGDOM AND SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow
- EGYPT: NEW KINGDOM / Richard Jasnow
- MESOPOTAMIA: OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Raymond Westbrook
- MESOPOTAMIA: OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Klaas R. Veenhof
- MESOPOTAMIA: MIDDLE BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Kathryn Slanski
- MESOPOTAMIA: MIDDLE ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Sophie Lafont
- MESOPOTAMIA: NUZI / Carlo Zaccagnini
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: THE HITTITE KINGDOM / Richard Haase
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: EMAR AND VICINITY / Raymond Westbrook
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: ALALAKH / Ignacio Márquez Rowe
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: UGARIT / Ignacio Márquez Rowe
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: CANAAN / Ignacio Márquez Rowe
- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE / Jesper Eidem
- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: LATE BRONZE AGE / Gary Beckman
- Preliminary material / RAYMOND WESTBROOK
- EGYPT: THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow
- EGYPT: DEMOTIC LAW / Joseph G. Manning
- EGYPT: ELEPHANTINE / Bezalel Porten
- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Karen Radner
- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Joachim Oelsner , Bruce Wells and Cornelia Wunsch
- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: ISRAEL / Tikva Frymer-Kenski
- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM / Simo Parpola
- INDICES / RAYMOND WESTBROOK
- INDEX OF ANCIENT TERMS / RAYMOND WESTBROOK
- INDEX OF TEXTS CITED / RAYMOND WESTBROOK.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46735-5
- 9786610467358
- 1-4175-0222-3
- 90-474-0209-X
- OCLC:
- 666961592
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047402091 DOI
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