Screen LibraryA history of ancient Near Eastern law /
The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | 2003. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East,
volume 72 |
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| Summary: |
The first comprehensive survey of the world's oldest known legal systems, this collaborative work of twenty-two scholars covers over 3,000 years of legal history of the Ancient Near East. Each of the book's chapters represents a review of the law of a particular period and region, e.g. the Egyptian Old Kingdom, by a specialist in that area. Within each chapter, the material is organized under standardized legal categories (e.g. constitutional law, family law) that make for easy cross-referencing. The chapters are arranged chronologically by millennium and within each millennium by the three major politico-cultural spheres of the region: Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Anatolia and the Levant. An introduction by the editor discusses the general character of Ancient Near Eastern Law. |
| Carrier Form: | 2 volumes (xvi, [2] leaves, 1209 pages) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: |
9789004129955 9004129952 9789004107946 9004107940 9789004135857 9004135855 |
| Index Number: | KL147 |
| CLC: | D937.09 |
| Call Number: | D937.09/H673 |
| Contents: | V. 1. The character of ancient Near Eastern Law / Raymond Westbrook. -- Old Kingdom and first intermediate period / Richard Jasnow. -- Early dynastic and sargonic periods / Claus Wilcke. -- Neo-Sumerian period (Ur III) / Bertrand Lafont and Raymond Westbrook. -- Ebla / Amalia Catagnoti. -- International law in the third millennium / Jerrold Cooper. -- Middle kingdom and second intermediate period / Richard Jasnow. -- New Kingdom / Richard Jasnow. -- Old Babylonian period / Raymond Westbrook. -- Old Assyrian period / Klaas Veenhof. -- Middle Babylonian period / Kathryn Slanski. -- Middle Assyrian period / Sophie Lafont. -- Nuzi / Carlo Zaccagnini. -- The Hittite kingdom / Richard Haase. -- Emar and vicinity / Raymond Westbrook -- Alalakh ; Ugarit ; Canaan / Ignacio Márquez Rowe. -- International law in the second millennium : middle bronze age / Jesper Eidem. -- International law in the second millennium : late bronze age / Gary Beeckman. -- v. 2. Egypt : Third intermediate period / Richard Jasnow. -- Demotic law / Joseph Manning. -- Elephantine / Bezalel Porten. -- Neo-Assyrian period / Karen Radner. -- Neo-Babylonian period / Joachim Oelsner, Bruce Wells & Cornelia Wunsch. -- Israel / Tikva Frymer-Kenski. -- International law in the first millennium / Simo Parpola. |