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Law Politics And Society In The Ancient Mediterranean World
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Book Synopsis Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World by : Baruch Halpern
Download or read book Law, Politics and Society in the Ancient Mediterranean World written by Baruch Halpern and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1993 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 11 essays in this collection focus on the social context of the law in such areas as old Babylonian Mesopotamia, biblical Isreal, classical Athens, Rome and Roman Greece, Italy and Egypt, the Byzantine Levant, and the Middle Ages. Contributors include: R Yaron (Social problems and policies in the ancient Near East) ; RR Wilson (The role of law in early Israelite society) ; VJ Hunter (Agnatic kinship in Athenian law) ; M Deslauriers (Implications of Aristotle's conception of authority) ; J Edmondson (Law and imperialism in Republican Rome) ; RS Bagnall (Slavery and society in late Roman Egypt) .
Author :David B and Clara E Stern Professor and Professor of Classics History and Law Clifford Ando Publisher : ISBN 13 :9783110367041 Total Pages :255 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (67 download)
Book Synopsis Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion by : David B and Clara E Stern Professor and Professor of Classics History and Law Clifford Ando
Download or read book Public and Private in Ancient Mediterranean Law and Religion written by David B and Clara E Stern Professor and Professor of Classics History and Law Clifford Ando and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-24 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Download or read book Law's Cosmos written by Victoria Wohl and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the inextricable ties between literary form and legal matter in Athens' juridical discourse.
Book Synopsis Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel by : Baruch Halpern
Download or read book Law and Ideology in Monarchic Israel written by Baruch Halpern and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three major essays by Baruch Halpern, Brian Peckham and Paul E. Dion deal with traumatic changes in Israelite culture, in particular the transition from the traditional culture of Israel in Iron Age IIA (tenth-ninth centuries) to a new, more widely literate culture in the eighth-seventh centuries BCE. These essays throw into relief changes in legal, political and religious culture in Judah in the last 150 years of its independence. Their combined implications for the origins of Western law and civilization, and for the models from which Reformation and Enlightenment political theory were drawn, are substantial.
Book Synopsis Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt by : John Bauschatz
Download or read book Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt written by John Bauschatz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the activities of a broad array of police officers in Ptolemaic Egypt (323–30 BC) and argues that Ptolemaic police officials enjoyed great autonomy, providing assistance to even the lowest levels of society when crimes were committed. Throughout the nearly 300 years of Ptolemaic rule, victims of crime in all areas of the Egyptian countryside called on local police officials to investigate crimes; hold trials; and arrest, question and sometimes even imprison wrongdoers. Drawing on a large body of textual evidence for the cultural, social and economic interactions between state and citizen, John Bauschatz demonstrates that the police system was efficient, effective, and largely independent of central government controls. No other law enforcement organization exhibiting such a degree of autonomy and flexibility appears in extant evidence from the rest of the Greco-Roman world.
Book Synopsis Inventing God's Law by : David P. Wright
Download or read book Inventing God's Law written by David P. Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most scholars believe that the numerous similarities between the Covenant Code (Exodus 20:23-23:19) and Mesopotamian law collections, especially the Laws of Hammurabi, which date to around 1750 BCE, are due to oral tradition that extended from the second to the first millennium. This book offers a fundamentally new understanding of the Covenant Code, arguing that it depends directly and primarily upon the Laws of Hammurabi and that the use of this source text occurred during the Neo-Assyrian period, sometime between 740-640 BCE, when Mesopotamia exerted strong and continuous political and cultural influence over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and a time when the Laws of Hammurabi were actively copied in Mesopotamia as a literary-canonical text. The study offers significant new evidence demonstrating that a model of literary dependence is the only viable explanation for the work. It further examines the compositional logic used in transforming the source text to produce the Covenant Code, thus providing a commentary to the biblical composition from the new theoretical perspective. This analysis shows that the Covenant Code is primarily a creative academic work rather than a repository of laws practiced by Israelites or Judeans over the course of their history. The Covenant Code, too, is an ideological work, which transformed a paradigmatic and prestigious legal text of Israel's and Judah's imperial overlords into a statement symbolically countering foreign hegemony. The study goes further to study the relationship of the Covenant Code to the narrative of the book of Exodus and explores how this may relate to the development of the Pentateuch as a whole.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought by : Christopher Rowe
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought written by Christopher Rowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.
Book Synopsis Women, Ideology and Violence by : Cheryl Anderson
Download or read book Women, Ideology and Violence written by Cheryl Anderson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Anderson examines the laws relating to women that are found in the Book of the Covenant and the Deuteronomic law. She argues that the laws can be divided into those that treat women similarly to men (defined as 'inclusive' laws) and those that treat women differently ('exclusive' laws). She then suggests that the exclusive laws, which construct gender as male dominance/female subordination, do not just describe violence against women but are inherently violent toward women. As a non-historical critique of ideology, critical theory is used to offer analytical insights that have significant implications for understanding gender constructions in both ancient and contemporary settings.
Book Synopsis Studies in the Semiotics of Biblical Law by : Bernard S. Jackson
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'.
Book Synopsis Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt by : Benjamin Kelly
Download or read book Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt written by Benjamin Kelly and published by Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the analysis of legal documents surviving on papyrus, such as petitions, reports of court proceedings, and letters, this book examines the contribution that petitioning and litigation made to the maintenance of the social order in Roman Egypt between 30 BC and AD 284, and focuses on how the legal system achieved its formal goals.
Book Synopsis Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire by : Dennis P. Kehoe
Download or read book Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire written by Dennis P. Kehoe and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2007-02-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold application of economic theory to help provide an understanding of the role that law played in the development of the Roman economy
Book Synopsis New Frontiers by : Paul J du Plessis
Download or read book New Frontiers written by Paul J du Plessis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary, edited collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are i
Book Synopsis Citizenship in Classical Athens by : Josine Blok
Download or read book Citizenship in Classical Athens written by Josine Blok and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that citizenship in Athens was primarily a religious identity, shared by male and female citizens alike.
Book Synopsis Village Life in Roman Egypt by : Micaela Langellotti
Download or read book Village Life in Roman Egypt written by Micaela Langellotti and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-16 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the first detailed study of Tebtunis, a village in Egypt within the Roman Empire, in the first century AD. It is founded on the archive material of the local notarial office, or grapheion, which was run by a man named Kronion for most of the mid-first century. The archive, unparalleled in antiquity, includes over two hundred documents written on papyrus which attest a wide range of transactions made by the villagers over defined periods of time, in particular the years AD 42 and 45-7 under the reign of the emperor Claudius. This evidence provides a unique insight into various aspects of village life: the level of participation in the written contractual economy; the socio-economic stratification of the village, including the position of women, slaves, priests, and the role of the elite; the functions of associations; the types and importance of agriculture; and non-agricultural activities. This multitude of data reveals a highly diversified village economy, a large involvement in written transactions among all the strata of the population, and a rural society living mostly above subsistence level. Tebtunis provides a model of village society that can be used to understand the majority of the population within the Roman Empire who lived outside cities in the Mediterranean, particularly in the other eastern and more Hellenized provinces.
Book Synopsis Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest by : James G. Keenan
Download or read book Law and Legal Practice in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest written by James G. Keenan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of ancient law has blossomed in recent years. In English alone there have been dozens of studies devoted to classical Greek and Roman law, to the Roman legal codes, and to the legal traditions of the ancient Near East among many other topics. Legal documents written on papyrus began to be published in some abundance by the end of the nineteenth century; but even after substantial publication history, legal papyri have not received due attention from legal historians. This book blends the two usually distinct juristic scholarly traditions, classical and Egyptological, into a coherent presentation of the legal documents from Egypt from the Ptolemaic to the late Byzantine periods, all translated and accompanied by expert commentary. The volume will serve as an introduction to the rich legal sources from Egypt in the later phases of its ancient history as well as a tool to compare legal documents from other cultures.
Book Synopsis Jewish Slavery in Antiquity by : Catherine Hezser
Download or read book Jewish Slavery in Antiquity written by Catherine Hezser and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained from employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances. Hezser examines the impact of domestic slavery on the ancient Jewish household and on family relationships. She discusses the perceived advantages of slaves over other types of labor and evaluates their role within the ancient Jewish economy. The ancient Jewish experience of slavery seems to have been so pervasive that slave images also entered theological discourse. Like their Graeco-Roman and Christian counterparts, ancient Jewish intellectuals did not advocate the abolition of slavery, but they used the biblical tradition and their own judgements to ameliorate the status quo.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity by : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity written by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity offers an innovative overview of a period (c. 300-700 CE) that has become increasingly central to scholarly debates over the history of western and Middle Eastern civilizations. This volume covers such pivotal events as the fall of Rome, the rise of Christianity, the origins of Islam, and the early formation of Byzantium and the European Middle Ages. These events are set in the context of widespread literary, artistic, cultural, and religious change during the period. The geographical scope of this Handbook is unparalleled among comparable surveys of Late Antiquity; Arabia, Egypt, Central Asia, and the Balkans all receive dedicated treatments, while the scope extends to the western kingdoms, and North Africa in the West. Furthermore, from economic theory and slavery to Greek and Latin poetry, Syriac and Coptic literature, sites of religious devotion, and many others, this Handbook covers a wide range of topics that will appeal to scholars from a diverse array of disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity engages the perennially valuable questions about the end of the ancient world and the beginning of the medieval, while providing a much-needed touchstone for the study of Late Antiquity itself.
