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Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor

Author : Martha Tobi Roth
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor written by Martha Tobi Roth and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 1997 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The law collections presented in this volume are compilations, varying in legal and literary sophistication, recorded by scribes in the schools and the royal centers of ancient Mesopotamia and Asia Minor from the end of the third millennium through the middle of the first millennium B.C.E. Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite texts, with accompanying English translations, are included. Some of the collections, like the famous Laws of Hammurabi, achieved a wide audience; others, like the Laws about Rented Oxen, were scribal exercises limited to a local school center. All, however, reflected contemporary legal practice in the scribes' recordings of contracts, administrative documents, and court cases and also provide historians with evidence of abstractions of legal rules from specific cases.

The Law's Beginnings

Author : Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004481605
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Law's Beginnings written by Ferdinand J.M. Feldbrugge and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law, as we know it, with its rules and rituals, its procedures and professionals, has not been around forever. It came into being, it emerged, at different places and different times. Sources which allow us to observe the processes of law’s beginnings have survived in some cases. In this book, scholars from various disciplines–linguists, lawyers, historians, anthropologists–present their findings concerning the earliest legal systems of a great variety of peoples and civilizations, from Mesopotamia and Ancient India to Greece and Rome, from the early Germanic, Celtic and Slavic nations, but also from other parts of the world. The general picture is complemented by an investigation into the Indo-European roots of a number of ancient legal systems, contributions from the point of view of legal philosophy and theory, and an overview of the insights gained.

Legal Traditions in Asia

Author : Janos Jany
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030437280
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Legal Traditions in Asia written by Janos Jany and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comparative analysis of traditional Asian legal systems. It combines methods from legal history, legal anthropology, legal philosophy, and substantive law, pursuing a comprehensive approach that offers readers a broad perspective on the topic. The geographic regions covered include the Near East, Middle East, Central Asia, India, China, Japan, and Southeast Asia. For each region, the book first provides historical and political context. Next, it discusses major milestones in the region’s legal history and political institutions, as well as its forms of government. Readers are then presented with fundamental principles and terms needed to understand the legal arguments discussed. The book begins with the Ancient Near East and important topics such as Jewish law. The next part considers Islamic law, while also exploring modern issues. The third part focuses on Hindu and Buddhist law, while the fourth part covers China and Japan. The book’s closing section examines tribal societies, e.g. Mongols, Pashtuns and Malays. Topics covered include the interaction of legal systems within a legal circle, inter-systemic interactions, reasons for the failure and success of legal modernization, legal pluralism, and its effects on Asian societies. Family law, law of obligation, criminal law, and procedural law are also explored.

Israel

Author : Daniel Isaac Block
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805446796
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Israel written by Daniel Isaac Block and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2008 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Israel: Ancient Kingdom or Late Invention? is a collection of essays responding to the radical claims that Israel and its history actually began following the Babylonian exile, and that the history of Israel we read about in the Bible is a fictionalized account. Contributors are leading Bible and archaeology scholars who bring extra-biblical evidence to bear for the historicity of the Old Testament and provide case studies of new work being done in the field of archaeology and Old Testament studies.

Se Ancient Near Eastern Wld 2005 G6

Author : Oup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195222458
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Se Ancient Near Eastern Wld 2005 G6 written by Oup and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Legal Thought

Author : Larry May
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108484107
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Legal Thought written by Larry May and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nearly four thousand years ago, kings in various ancient societies, especially in Mesopotamia (contemporary Iraq), faced a crisis of major proportions. Large portions of the population were horribly in debt, many being forced to sell themselves or their children into slavery to pay off their debts. The laws and customs seemed to support the commercial practices that allowed lenders to charge 20%-30% interest, and the law protected the lenders and gave no recourse for the indebted. Strict justice called for the creditors to receive what they were due. But another legal concept, the emerging idea of equity, seemed to call for a different result - the use of law as a vehicle to free people from economic oppression. Debt relief edicts were instituted - "clean-slate laws" as they were known - and are of obvious relevance today as well where crushing debt is a major issue underlying social inequality"--

The Physically Disabled in Ancient Israel According to the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Sources

Author : Michael D Fiorello
Publisher : Authentic Media Inc
ISBN 13 : 1780783299
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Physically Disabled in Ancient Israel According to the Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Sources written by Michael D Fiorello and published by Authentic Media Inc. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a unique way this study probes the linguistic, sociological, religious and theological issues associated with being physically disabled in the ancient Near East. By examining the law collections, societal conventions and religious obligations towards individuals who were physically disabled Fiorello gives us an understanding of the world a disabled person would enter. He explores the connection between the literal use of disability language and the metaphorical use of this language made in biblical prophetic literature as a prophetic critique of Israel's dysfunctional relationship with God. COMMENDATIONS "In this well-researched volume Michael Fiorello has made a significant contribution to the study of disability in the Bible in the context of its ancient Near Eastern world. Fiorello's work needs to be taken seriously in the church, the academy, and the world." - Richard E. Averbeck, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA

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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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.

The Family in the New Millennium

Author : Thomas B. Holman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 031308470X
Total Pages : 1345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Family in the New Millennium written by Thomas B. Holman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable team of contributors based across 19 countries explores and explains events worldwide affecting the natural family—married father and mother with biological children —detailing concepts and benefits of natural family that have been taken for granted across centuries, but are now being challenged in many ways. These scholars—many admittedly taking stands that may be deemed politically incorrect—conclude that natural family is being threatened, and is vital to provide common ground among all societies, cultures and religious traditions. Psychologists, sociologists, economists, theologians, lawyers, health care professionals and award-winning journalists are among the chapter authors, as are Nobel Prize Laureate Gary Becker, U.S. Department of Health Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade Horn, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Bin Mohamad. Whether or not you agree with their arguments, science and conclusions, you'll want to know what these influential figures are saying. Addressing many lightning-rod issues, from divorce and abortion to euthanasia and same-sex marriage, writers here span the world from the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom to Australia, Turkey, India, and China. Intellectuals included are associated with institutions from Brigham Young University, Georgetown School of Medicine and the Boston College School of Law, to the University of Geneva, and the Maxim Institute in New Zealand.

Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia

Author : A. Leo Oppenheim
Publisher : Chicago : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Letters from Mesopotamia: Official Business, and Private Letters on Clay Tablets from Two Millennia written by A. Leo Oppenheim and published by Chicago : University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections

Author : Samuel Greengus
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1608999467
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Laws in the Bible and in Early Rabbinic Collections written by Samuel Greengus and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable discovery of ancient Near Eastern law collections or "codes," beginning with the Laws of Hammurabi and followed by many other collections in decades following, opened a new window upon biblical law. This volume seeks to examine within a single study all of the biblical laws that are similar in content with ancient Near Eastern laws from Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Hatti. The book also examines a small but important group of early rabbinic laws from postbiblical times that exhibit significant similarities with laws found in the ancient Near Eastern collections or "codes." This later group of laws, although absent from the Bible, are nevertheless of comparable antiquity. The presentation focuses on the actual law statements preserved in these ancient law "codes." The discussion then adds narratives, records, and reports of legal actions from ancient sources outside the laws-all of which relate to the formal law statements. The discourse is non-polemical in tone and does not seek to revisit all theories and interpretations. The format allows readers, including those who are new to the subject of biblical law, to engage the primary sources on their own.

The Laws of the Hittites

Author : Harry A. Hoffner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004108745
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Laws of the Hittites written by Harry A. Hoffner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete tool for understanding this oldest collection (about 1650 BC) of laws made by an Indo-European people. Incorporating many tablets published since the 1959 edition, and utilizing the latest lexical and grammatical insights, the author presents the text in the "score" format with translation, commentary, glossary, indexes, plates and bibliography.

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

Author : Caroline Humfress
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009566148
Total Pages : 884 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law written by Caroline Humfress and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 884 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200–3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.

Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

Author : Dominique Charpin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226101592
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia written by Dominique Charpin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts. Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to this day. As legal codes throughout the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were able to stabilize their control over distant realms and impose a common language—which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by magistrates, judges, and scribes that eventually became the vast empires of history books. Sure to attract any reader with an interest in the ancient Near East, as well as rhetoric, legal history, and classical studies, this book is an innovative account of the intertwined histories of law and language.

Divination in the Ancient Near East

Author : Jeanette C. Fincke
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1575068796
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Divination in the Ancient Near East written by Jeanette C. Fincke and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a collection of revised papers given in the workshop Divination im Alten Orient that was convened on July 22, 2008, as part of the 54th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Würzburg. The aim of this workshop was to bring together Assyriologists and Hittitologists in order to present and discuss the divination methods of their respective fields, most of which had not been studied until recently. The large audience that attended the workshop confirmed how wide is the interest in this subject.

An Introduction to Biblical Law

Author : Morrow, William
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802868657
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Biblical Law written by Morrow, William and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informed, accessible textbook on law collections in the Pentateuch In this book William Morrow surveys four major law collections in Exodus-Deuteronomy and shows how they each enabled the people of Israel to create and sustain a community of faith. Treating biblical law as dynamic systems of thought facilitating ancient Israel's efforts at self-definition, Morrow describes four different social contexts that gave rise to biblical law: (1) Israel at the holy mountain (the Ten Commandments); (2) Israel in the village assembly (Exodus 20:22-23:19); (3) Israel in the courts of the Lord (priestly and holiness rules in Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers); and (4) Israel in the city (Deuteronomy). Including forthright discussion of such controversial subjects as slavery, revenge, gender inequality, religious intolerance, and contradictions between bodies of biblical law, Morrow's study will help students and other serious readers make sense out of texts in the Pentateuch that are often seen as obscure.

Early Mesopotamian Law

Author : Russ VerSteeg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Early Mesopotamian Law written by Russ VerSteeg and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book synthesizes law in ancient Mesopotamia from its beginnings (roughly 3000 BC) to about 1600 BC. Author Russ VerSteeg explains Mesopotamian law using modern legal categories as points of reference in order to make the subject more accessible to the reader. Early Mesopotamian Law is the first book of its kind, filling a void of information left by most ancient law books, which discuss the law of Ancient Greece and Rome. It brings together information from many books on Mesopotamian history; translations of ancient law collections and documents; as well as monographs, journal articles, and unpublished papers dealing with specialized aspects of Mesopotamian law. This book will be of interest to scholars of Near Eastern studies who wish to have a single volume covering the basics of early Mesopotamian law as well as to law students and lawyers who are interested in legal history. Topics covered include: Part 1: Overview, Justice, Organization and Procedure -- the law collections ("codes"); justice and jurisprudence (the role of law); legal organization and personnel and legal procedure; Part 2: Substantive Law -- personal status; the family; inheritance and succession; criminal law; torts; property; and trade, contracts and business law.