Law and (dis)order in the ancient Near East : proceedings of the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale held at Ghent, Belgium, 14-19 July 2013 / edited by Katrien De Graef and Anne Goddeeris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Graef, Katrien de, editor.

Goddeeris, Anne, editor.

Series:

Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law, Ancient--Congresses.

Law, Ancient.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Eisenbrauns, [2021]

Summary:

Mesopotamia is often considered to be the birthplace of law codes. In recognition of this fact and motivated by the perennial interest in the topic among Assyriologists, the 59th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale was organized in Ghent in 2013 around the theme “Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East.” Based on papers delivered at that meeting, this volume contains twenty-six essays that focus on archaeological, philological, and historical topics related to order and chaos in the Ancient Near East. Written by a diverse array of international scholars, the contributions to this book explore laws and legal practices in the Ur III, Old Babylonian, Middle Assyrian, and Neo-Assyrian periods in Mesopotamia, as well as in Nuzi and the Hebrew Bible. Among the subjects covered are the Code of Hammurabi, legal phraseology, the archaeological traces of the organization of community life, and biblical law. The volume also contains essays that explore the concepts of chaos/disorder and law/order in divinatory texts and literature.Wide-ranging and cutting-edge, the essays in this collection will be of interest to Assyriologists, especially members of the International Association for Assyriology.

Contents:

Chapter 21: When the Trial Does Not Work: Pathological Elements in the Judicial Procedure in the Old Babylonian Period

Chapter 22: The Ashurbanipal Library Project at the British Museum

Chapter 23: The Sea and Monarchic Legitimation in the Ancient Near East

Chapter 24: Putting Life in Order: The Architecture of the New Excavations in Kamid el- Loz, Lebanon

Chapter 25: Enmity Against Samsu- ditāna

(Chapter 15: Mis) Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn't Have Been Competent, They Didn't Go to Yale

Chapter 16: Retablir l'ordre par la mort dans les textes legislatifs du debut du IIe millenaire av. J.-C.

Chapter 17: To Be Guilty at Nuzi

Chapter 18: Fremde Götter-eigene Götter: Zu de nneuassyrischen Götterbeschreibungen

Chapter 19: "Not Even Her Own Jewelry": Marital Property in the Middle Assyrian Laws

Chapter 20: Disorder and Its Agents: The Akkadian Epic of Anzû Revisited

Chapter 10: A Variationist Approach to Orthographic and Phonological Peculiarities of the Language in the Laws of Hammurabi

Chapter 11: "For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me Replace Him One Hundred- Fold": Fugitives/ Runaways in the Neo- Assyrian Empire

Chapter 12: Perfections of Justice? Measure for Measure Aspirations in Biblical and Cuneiform Sources

Chapter 13: Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination

Chapter 14: Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination

Chapter 4: Lorsque les generaux prêtent serment ... : Quelques remarques sur l'usage du serment deloyaute (depuis la documentation d'Ur III jusqu'àl'epoque neo- assyrienne)

Chapter 5: Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality

Chapter 6: The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo- Assyrian Documents

Chapter 7: Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte: A Source of Order or Disorder in the Legal System

Chapter 8: What the "Man of One Mina" Wanted: Law and Commerce in the Ur III Period

Chapter 9: How Ancient Near Eastern Societies Regulated Life in the Community: Crucial Clues from Archaeology

Intro

COVER Front

Copyright Page

Table of CONtENTS

Chapter 1

Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature

Chapter 2: Le vol à l'epoque paleo- babylonienne : L'application de la loi à travers la jurisprudence

Chapter 3: "Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie" or the Taboo (NÍG.GIG=ikkibu) of the Sacredness of Sleepas Order and Noise at Night ("tapage nocturne") as Disorder in Some Ancient Near Eastern Texts

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-64602-120-7

OCLC:

1243513694