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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781605403321

Autore

Westbrook Raymond

Titolo

Law from the Tigris to the Tiber : The Writings of Raymond Westbrook / . Volume 1 The shared tradition / / Raymond Westbrook ; edited by Bruce Wells and Rachel Magdalene The shared tradition / . Volume 1

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Winona Lake, IN : , : Eisenbrauns, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-57506-637-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1111 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MagdaleneF. Rachel

WellsBruce

Disciplina

340.5/394

Soggetti

Roman law

Law, Greek

Law, Ancient

Law

Jewish law

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Government - Comparative

LAW - Customary

Law - Middle East - History

History

Middle East

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-471) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

v. 1. The Shared tradition -- v. 2. Cuneiform and biblical sources.

Sommario/riassunto

Raymond Westbrook (1946-2009) was acknowledged by many as the world's foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out Westbrook's theory of a common legal tradition that spanned the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Israel and even to Greece and Rome. The second volume, Cuneiform and



Biblical Sources, provides 28 articles that demonstrate Westbrook's unique method of legal analysis that he applied to the numerous texts he worked with as an Assyriologist and biblical scholar, from law codes to contracts to narratives. Each volume contains its own comprehensive bibliography, as well as subject, author, and text indexes. Together, they represent the life's work of one of the most important legal historians of our era.