Law and religion in the Eastern Mediterranean : from antiquity to early Islam / edited by Anselm C. Hagedorn and Reinhard G. Kratz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hagedorn, Anselm C.

Kratz, Reinhard G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and law--Middle East--History--To 1500.

Religion and law.

Middle East--Civilization--To 622.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume addresses the similarities and differences in the role played by law and religion in various societies across the Eastern Mediterranean. Approaching these subjects in an all-encompassing manner, it also looks at the notion of law and religion in this region as a whole, in both the geographical as well as the historical space.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""List of Contributors""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I""; ""1. The Sound of the Magic Flute in Legal and Religious Registers of the Ramesside Period: Some Common Features of Two �Ritualistic Languages�""; ""2. Law and Religion in Achaemenid Iran""; ""3. Law and Religion in Early Greece""; ""4. Gods, Kings, and Lawgivers""; ""5. Hated by the Gods and your Spouse: Legal Use of (omited) in Elephantine and its Ancient Near Eastern Context""

""6. The Aramaic Law of Sale Considered from the Papyrological and Rabbinic Evidence""""7. Fines and Curses: Law and Religion among the Nabataeans and their Neighbours""; ""Part II""; ""8. Law and Religion in the Hebrew Bible""; ""9. The History of the Legal-Religious Hermeneutics of the Book of Deuteronomy from the Assyrian to the Hellenistic Period""; ""10. �The peg in the wall�: Cultic Centralization Revisited""; ""11. Is It Law or Religion? Legal Motivations in Deuteronomic and Neo-Babylonian Texts""; ""12. Job�s Compositional History One More Time: What Its Law Might Contribute""

""13. �For the judgment is God�s� (Deut. 1: 17): Biblical and Communal Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls""""14. The Jurist as a Mujtahid��the Hermeneutical Concept of Abu l-Hasan 'Ali al-Mawardi (d. 449/1058)""; ""Index of References""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 13, 2014).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-174719-X

0-19-162625-2

OCLC:

870284346