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Author : Albrecht Götze
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (157 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Eshnunna Discovered at Tell Harmal written by Albrecht Götze and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuven Yaron
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004085343
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (853 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Eshnunna written by Reuven Yaron and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1988 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of Yaron's Laws of Eshunna was published in 1969. The second revised edition is in many respects a new book. New material - from Tell Haddad, Ishcali, also from remote Elba - granted new insights. Increased attention was paid to comparison, especially with the Code of Hammurabi. Of continuing controversies, the discussion concerning muskenum, and concerning ÷imdat sarrim may be singled out. A reconsideration of the English translation has resulted in many often, minute changes.
Author : Konrad Schmid
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628374322
Total Pages : 955 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Scribes of the Torah written by Konrad Schmid and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 955 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised view of the Pentateuch with consequences for the broader literary history of the Bible This collection of thirty-one studies on the Pentateuch represents more than twenty years of Konrad Schmid’s research and publications advocating for a new view of the Pentateuch’s formation. Schmid’s essays present the case for a Persian period Priestly document that provided a basic narrative thread to the Torah, which included separate, pre-Priestly components of narratives in Genesis and the Moses story. Schmid’s open discussion includes evidence from various fields, such as literary history, comparative cultural history, historical linguistics, epigraphy, and archaeology. The essays are divided into eight sections usefully structured around the themes of the Pentateuch in the Enneateuch, the history of scholarship, the formation of the Torah, Genesis, the Moses story, the Priestly document, legal texts, and the Pentateuch in the history of ancient Israel’s religion.
Author : Jürgen von Hagen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139916815
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Money as God? written by Jürgen von Hagen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of money and its impact on society has long interested scholars of economics, history, philosophy, law, and theology alike, and the recent financial crisis has moved these issues to the forefront of current public debate. In this study, authors from a range of backgrounds provide a unified examination of the nature and the purpose of money. Chapters cover the economic and social foundations of money; the historical origins of money in ancient Greece, China, the ancient Middle East, and medieval Europe; problems of justice connected to the use of money in legal systems and legal settlements, with examples both from ancient history and today; and theological aspects of monetary and market exchange. This stimulating interdisciplinary book, with its nontechnical and lively discussion, will appeal to a global readership working in the interfaces of economics, law and religion.
Author : Samuel A. Jackson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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.
Author : Martha Tobi Roth
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Arthur Thomson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462059856
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)
Download or read book First Writers—The Sumerians written by Gary Arthur Thomson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sumerians were the ?rst people to write. Using a sharp three-cornered stylus, they wrote on claysmall wedge-shapes called cuneiform. With writing, Sumerians turned the corner from prehistory to history! After at least two million years of humans telling stories, the Sumerians introduced literacy. Most civilizations passed down their heritage through orally recited traditionsstories were passed from one generation to another by word of mouth. The Sumerians were the ?rst to write down their oral traditions. To make the historical record easier, the Sumerians invented calendars with exact dates of events and contracts often corroborated by astronomy. Since Sumerian farmers invented irrigation and created a surplus, other Sumerians could choose to specialize in law, education, architecture, engineering, marketing, and politicsall of which were accompanied by written records. Using the writings of the Sumerians and modern archaeology, this book will trace the story of the Sumerians, the worlds ?rst writers.
Author : Martha Tobi Roth
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book LXX written by Martha Tobi Roth and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul J. N. Lawrence
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498269923
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The Books of Moses Revisited written by Paul J. N. Lawrence and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-09-14 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who wrote the first five books of the Bible? Does it really matter who did? The Books of Moses Revisited explores this question by comparing the covenants of Exodus/Leviticus and Deuteronomy with the inter-state treaties of the late second millennium BC. Some compelling similarities come to light, both in the pattern adopted and in many small details. Lawrence clearly demonstrates this with many examples and diagrams, yet without assuming that readers possess a detailed knowledge of ancient history and linguistics. Despite the entrenchment of the widely held theory--the so-called Documentary Hypothesis--that the first five books of the Bible were the product of an anonymous editor living many centuries after Moses, this book argues that the first five books of the Bible bear many hallmarks of being late second millennium BC compositions and that Moses should not be ruled out as being the author. The book also explores how several ancient texts--the Egyptian Story of Sinuhe, the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey--were transmitted in antiquity and suggests that a similar process also lies behind the transmission of the first five books of the Bible.
Author : Richard Austen-Baker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000784886
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Understanding Contract Law written by Richard Austen-Baker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Contract Law provides an accessible, in-depth analysis of the purpose of contracting and the role of the law of contract, as well as theories that inform it. Assessing the historical development of this cornerstone of law, the book provides detailed analysis of some of the leading theoretical explanations, and how they are applied in jurisdictions throughout the world. With a new chapter examining the impact of globalization on contract law, this new edition also includes recent behavioural research around responses to contract breach. The book’s accessibility is enhanced by text boxes defining key concepts and terms, and biographical notes of leading figures and scholars. This ensures that readers are able to gain a clear understanding of the narratives and theories explained in the book, and to appreciate how contract law has evolved. Uniquely, the book is not limited to one jurisdiction, making this an essential text for students wishing to expand their knowledge of this fundamental area of law around the world.
Author : Sara J. Milstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190911824
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Making a Case written by Sara J. Milstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside of the Bible, all of the known Near Eastern law collections were produced in the third to second millennia BCE, in cuneiform on clay tablets, and in major cities in Mesopotamia and in the Hittite Empire. None of the major sites in Syria that have yielded cuneiform tablets has borne even a fragment of a law collection, even though several have produced ample legal documentation. Excavations at Nuzi have also turned up numerous legal documents, but again, no law collection. Even Egypt has not yielded a collection of laws. As such, the biblical texts that scholars regularly identify as law collections represent the only "western," non-cuneiform expressions of the genre in the ancient Near East, produced by societies not known for their political clout, and separated in time from "other" collections by centuries. Making a Case: The Practical Roots of Biblical Law challenges the long-held notion that Israelite and Judahite scribes either made use of "old" law collections or set out to produce law collections in the Near Eastern sense of the genre. Instead, what we call "biblical law" is closer in form and function to another, oft-neglected Mesopotamian genre: legal-pedagogical texts. During their education, Mesopotamian scribes studied a variety of legal-oriented school texts, including sample contracts, fictional cases, short sequences of laws, and legal phrasebooks. When biblical law is viewed in the context of these legal-pedagogical texts from Mesopotamia, its practical roots in a set of comparable legal exercises begin to emerge.
Author : Dominique Charpin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226101592
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)
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.
Author : Susan E. Rayner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Contracts in Islamic Law:A Comparative Analysis with Particular Reference to Modern Legislation in Kuwait, Bahrain and the U. A. E. written by Susan E. Rayner and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-11-25 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the discovery of oil in the Middle East an increasing number of important contracts must be framed in accordance with the Shari'a. Moreover various factors have helped to create among Muslims a more acute sense of an original Islamic identity & a collective feeling that Shari's should govern their lives not only with regard to personal & family matters but also as a valid & reasonable corpus of commercial & civil laws. The ban on taking interest (riba) & the rejection of chance contracts (gharar) are two features of an Islamic law of contract which contrast with the secular man-made legal systems of the West. This book is concerned with these two Islamic Prohibitory rules & with the interest-free banking system which has developed therefrom. This is a new enlarged edition where the comparative examination of the topics of the book is updated & furthermore extended to cover the Shi'a Ja'fari fiqh. As a result all aspects are examined in the light of the teachings of the four Sunni schools -which hold authority in the Arab states & in Pakistan -of the Ibadis strongly present in Oman & of the Shi'a Ja'faris prevalent in Iran & largely present in Iraq, Bahrein, Kuweit & Lebanon. The new edition will confirm the use of the initial one as a text book with a particular appeal to academics & practising lawyers. It also provides an insight into the religious & idealogical foundations claimed by Islamic banking.
Author : Richard Austen-Baker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135096139
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Contract in Context written by Richard Austen-Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contract in Context provides an easy to read, in depth analysis of the purpose and role of contract law and the theories that surround it. It looks at the historical development of contract law as well as providing detailed analysis of some of the leading theoretical explanations and how they are applied on an international level. The book’s accessibility is enhanced by text boxes defining key concepts and terms and by bullet-point lists and descriptions further enlivened by biographical notes for leading figures and scholars. This ensures that students are able to gain a firm grasp and a clear understanding of the narratives and theories explained in the book. Contract in Context is unique in that it is not limited to one jurisdiction, making it ideal for students around the globe wishing to develop or expand their knowledge of contract law.
Author : A.S. Diamond
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136549498
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Primitive Law, Past and Present written by A.S. Diamond and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the beginnings of law and the 'primitive' stages of its development, from the first rudimentary rules of conduct to the codes of the legal systems. Its scope extends to both cultures and legal systems from the ancient and medieval past: those of the Babylonians and Assyrians, Hittites, Hebrews, Romans, Hindus, English and other German peoples, and those of Africa, Australia and America. Correlating early economic and legal development, the book illustrates how laws change with the development of material culture. Originally published in 1971.
Author : Pamela Barmash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197525415
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book The Laws of Hammurabi written by Pamela Barmash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the best-known and most esteemed people known from antiquity is the Babylonian king Hammurabi. His fame and reputation are due to the collection of laws written under his patronage. This book offers an innovative interpretation of the Laws of Hammurabi. Ancient scribes would demonstrate their legal flair by composing statutes on a set of traditional cases, articulating what they deemed just and fair. The scribe of the Laws of Hammurabi advanced beyond earlier scribes in composing statutes that manifest systematization and implicit legal principles, and inserted the Laws of Hammurabi into the form of a royal inscription, shrewdly reshaping the genre. This tradition of scribal improvisation on a set of traditional cases continued outside of Mesopotamia. It influenced biblical law and the law of the Hittite empire significantly. The Laws of Hammurabi was also witness to the start of another stream of intellectual tradition. It became the subject of formal commentaries, marking a profound cultural shift. Scribes related to it in ways that diverged from prior attitudes; it became an object of study and of commentary, a genre that names itself as dependent on another text. The famous Laws of Hammurabi is here given the extensive attention it continues to merit.
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Interpretation written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
