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A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

Author : Raymond Westbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law written by Raymond Westbrook and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three millennia to the change of era, specialists in the cultures, languages, and literatures explore the law in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia and the Levant, and international law. The broad scope and the paucity of data seems to have found its level at about twelve hundred pages. The two volumes are paged together and indexed by subjects, ancient terms, and texts cited. Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

A Comparison of Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections Prior to the First Millennium BC

Author : Samuel A. Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Comparison of Ancient Near Eastern Law Collections Prior to the First Millennium BC written by Samuel A. Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work sets out to compare the pre-first millennium BC law collections of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Hatti. By highlighting and explaining consistent differences in both framing and content it questions the notion of a uniform ancient Near Eastern legal culture.

A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols)

Author : Raymond Westbrook
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 904740209X
Total Pages : 1235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law (2 vols) written by Raymond Westbrook and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 1235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the Law of the Ancient Near East by a team of specialist scholars, this volume allows non-specialists access to the world's earliest known legal systems.

Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East

Author : Katrien De Graef
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1646021185
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Law and (Dis)Order in the Ancient Near East written by Katrien De Graef and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-05-27 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Women, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society

Author : Elisabeth Meier Tetlow
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826416285
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (162 download)

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Book Synopsis Women, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society by : Elisabeth Meier Tetlow

Download or read book Women, Crime and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society written by Elisabeth Meier Tetlow and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-12-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world customary laws were created by men, formal laws were written by men, and both were interpreted and enforced by men.

Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law

Author : Amnon Altman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004222537
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Tracing the Earliest Recorded Concepts of International Law written by Amnon Altman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique survey of legal practices and ideas relating to international relations in the Ancient Near East between 2500 and 330 BCE.

Law and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World

Author : Anselm C. Hagedorn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985614201
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Law and Diplomacy in the Ancient Near East and the Mediterranean World written by Anselm C. Hagedorn and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the Biblical Law Section, 2009 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, New Orleans. Essays in memory of Raymond Westbrook on law in the ancient Near East, the Bible and the Mediterranean world.

Law and (dis)order in the Ancient Near East

Author : Katrien de Graef
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781575068435
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Law and (dis)order in the Ancient Near East written by Katrien de Graef and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A collection of 26 essays delivered at the 2013 yearly meeting of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale on archaeological, philological, and historical topics related to order and chaos in the Ancient Near East"--

A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004107946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (79 download)

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Law in the Ancient Near East

Author : Jacob J. Finkelstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Law in the Ancient Near East written by Jacob J. Finkelstein and published by . This book was released on 1950* with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean

Author : Anselm C. Hagedorn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199550239
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean by : Anselm C. Hagedorn

Download or read book Law and Religion in the Eastern Mediterranean written by Anselm C. Hagedorn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Law in the Ancient World

Author : Russ VerSteeg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Law in the Ancient World written by Russ VerSteeg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law in the Ancient World examines the legal philosophy, legal institutions, and laws of the ancient Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. Ancient documents, accounts, and literature provide the basis for a wide perspective of law and the procedural features of these ancient legal systems. VerSteeg delineates and analyzes the elements of ancient laws, explaining how social, religious, cultural, and political forces shaped both procedure and substance. The book is comprised of four units: I. Early Mesopotamian Law; II. Law in Ancient Egypt; III. Law in Classical Athens; and IV. Roman Law. Each unit has three chapters, and the first chapter in each unit begins with an overview which provides essential historial background. Next, each initial chapter considers the role of law in society, exploring law in the abstract, the theoretical bases of justice. The middle chapters in each unit trace the development of the ancient judicial systems, distinguishing the various types of judges, courts, and procedures that were employed to make justice available to both citizens and foreigners. The third chapter in each unit reconstructs the substantive laws, including sections detailing Personal Status, Property, Family Law, Inheritance & Succession, Torts, Criminal Law, and Contracts & Commercial Law. A variety of sources, such as early law collections, land records, wills, sales documents, court chronicles, works of ancient literature, accounts of ancient trials, and great codes such as Justinian's Corpus Iuris Civilis illustrate the sophisticated, often subtle, and complex nature of law in the ancient world.

Structures of Power

Author : Ilan Peled
Publisher : Oriental Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9781614910398
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Structures of Power written by Ilan Peled and published by Oriental Institute Press. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume publishes the proceedings of the eleventh annual University of Chicago Oriental Institute Seminar. Its central goal is to present a cross-cultural study of the intersection between law and gender relations in the ancient world, with a focus on the ancient Near East. When reflecting upon the formation, perpetuation, and interactions of social structures that frequently come into conflict with each other, one discovers that gender constructs are used by mechanisms of social monitoring and control; structures of power. One such example is the realm of jurisdiction and legislation. This volume uses the sphere of legal institutions as a prism through which to consider gender relations in the ancient world, both in the Near East and beyond. The way in which similar issues were manifested in different cultural and historical contexts is examined, with the goal of identifying common denominators as well as particularities. The three themes discussed in this volume are examined through multiple historical-cultural examples.

Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law

Author : Bernard S. Jackson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567578690
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law written by Bernard S. Jackson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains and illustrates a variety of semiotic issues in the study of biblical law. Commencing with a review of relevant literature in linguistics, philosophy, semiotics and psychology, it examines biblical law in terms of its users, its medium and its message. It criticizes our use of the notion of 'literal meaning', at the level of both words and sentences, preferring to see meaning constructed by the narrative images that the language evokes. These images may come from either social experience or cultural narratives. Speech performance is important, both in the negotiation of the law and the narratives of its communication. Non-linguistic semiotic phenomena, utilizing other senses and involving such notions as space and time, also need to be taken into account. For the early biblical period, at least, conceptions of law based upon modern models need to be replaced by the notion of 'wisdom-laws'. Amongst the issues addressed in the course of the argument are the structure of the Decalogue, the role in the law of (Greenberg's) 'postulates', 'covenant renewal' and 'talionic punishment'.

The Laws of the Imperialized

Author : Chung Man Anna Lo
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786410044
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Laws of the Imperialized written by Chung Man Anna Lo and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being the first legal corpus in the biblical canon, Exodus 19–24 is a law collection that belonged to a people living under the shadow of empire. Using an integrated approach of postcolonial studies and historical-comparative analysis, this important study analyzes the relationship between the laws given to the Israelites on Mount Sinai and cuneiform law collections. Dr. Anna Lo skillfully integrates postcolonial understandings of the colonized people to explore how the similarities and differences reflect the imperialized authors’ wrestling with the imperial legal metanarrative and subjugation of their time. This investigation into the dynamic of acceptance, ambivalence, and resistance invites attention to this selection of Scripture as a work of conservative revolutionists. Dr. Lo’s thorough work provides an important way forward for scholars to consider responses of the imperialized to empires in the past as well as to reflect on their own response to hegemonic domination today.

Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics

Author : Larbi Sadiki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351692593
Total Pages : 795 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics written by Larbi Sadiki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 795 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on various perspectives and analysis, the Handbook problematizes Middle East politics through an interdisciplinary prism, seeking a melioristic account of the field. Thematically organized, the chapters address political, social, and historical questions by showcasing both theoretical and empirical insights, all of which are represented in a style that ease readers into sophisticated induction in the Middle East. It positions the didactic at the centre of inquiry. Contributions by forty-four scholars, both veterans and newcomers, rethink knowledge frames, conceptual categories, and fieldwork praxis. Substantive themes include secularity and religion, gender, democracy, authoritarianism, and new "borderline" politics of the Middle East. Like any field of knowledge, the Middle East is constituted by texts, authors, and readers, but also by the cultural, spatial, and temporal contexts within which diverse intellectual inflections help construct (write–speak) academic meaning, knowing, and practice. By denaturalizing notions of singularity of authorship or scholarship, the Handbook plants a dialogic interplay animated by multi-vocality, multi-modality, and multi-disciplinarity. Targeting graduate students and young scholars of political and social sciences, the Handbook is significant for understanding how the Middle East is written and re-written, read and re-read (epistemology, methodology), and for how it comes to exist (ontology).

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Author : Bettany Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593686152
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World written by Bettany Hughes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and broadcaster comes an immersive, awe-inspiring tour of the ancient sites that kindle our imagination and afford us a glimpse into our shared history “This fascinating book is brimming with stories of people and places, all told with Bettany’s natural sense of wonder and adventure.” —Simon Sebag Montefiore, New York Times bestselling author of The World For millennia, the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World have been known for their aesthetic sublimity, ingenious engineering, and sheer, audacious magnitude: The Great Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus, the Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse at Alexandria. Echoing down time, each of these persists in our imagination as an emblem of the glory of antiquity, but beneath the familiar images is a surprising, revelatory history. Guiding us through it is historian Bettany Hughes, who has traveled to each of the sites to uncover the latest archaeological discoveries and bring these monuments and the distinct cultures that built them back to breathtaking life. Spellbinding, richly illustrated, and full of insight, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a journey into the indomitable ambition and creativity of the human spirit.