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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783473703321

Titolo

A history of ancient Near Eastern law [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Raymond Westbrook ; editorial board, Gary Beckman ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Brill, 2003

ISBN

1-280-46735-5

9786610467358

1-4175-0222-3

90-474-0209-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1229 p.)

Collana

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, , 0169-9423 ; ; v. 72 = Handbuch der Orientalistik

Altri autori (Persone)

WestbrookRaymond

BeckmanGary M

Disciplina

340.5/394

Soggetti

Law - Middle East - History

Law, Ancient

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- INTRODUCTION: THE CHARACTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LAW / Raymond Westbrook -- EGYPT: OLD KINGDOM AND FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow -- MESOPOTAMIA: EARLY DYNASTIC AND SARGONIC PERIODS / Claus Wilcke -- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-SUMERIAN PERIOD (UR III) / Bertrand Lafont and Raymond Westbrook -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: EBLA / Amalia Catagnoti -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM / Jerrold Cooper -- EGYPT: MIDDLE KINGDOM AND SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow -- EGYPT: NEW KINGDOM / Richard Jasnow -- MESOPOTAMIA: OLD BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Raymond Westbrook -- MESOPOTAMIA: OLD ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Klaas R. Veenhof -- MESOPOTAMIA: MIDDLE BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Kathryn Slanski -- MESOPOTAMIA: MIDDLE ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Sophie Lafont -- MESOPOTAMIA: NUZI / Carlo Zaccagnini -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: THE HITTITE KINGDOM / Richard Haase -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: EMAR AND VICINITY / Raymond Westbrook -- ANATOLIA



AND THE LEVANT: ALALAKH / Ignacio Márquez Rowe -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: UGARIT / Ignacio Márquez Rowe -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: CANAAN / Ignacio Márquez Rowe -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: MIDDLE BRONZE AGE / Jesper Eidem -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM: LATE BRONZE AGE / Gary Beckman -- Preliminary material / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- EGYPT: THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD / Richard Jasnow -- EGYPT: DEMOTIC LAW / Joseph G. Manning -- EGYPT: ELEPHANTINE / Bezalel Porten -- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-ASSYRIAN PERIOD / Karen Radner -- MESOPOTAMIA: NEO-BABYLONIAN PERIOD / Joachim Oelsner , Bruce Wells and Cornelia Wunsch -- ANATOLIA AND THE LEVANT: ISRAEL / Tikva Frymer-Kenski -- INTERNATIONAL LAW: INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM / Simo Parpola -- INDICES / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- INDEX OF ANCIENT TERMS / RAYMOND WESTBROOK -- INDEX OF TEXTS CITED / RAYMOND WESTBROOK.

Sommario/riassunto

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.