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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793831903321

Autore

Magdalene F. Rachel

Titolo

Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts / by F. Rachel Magdalene, Bruce Wells, Cornelia Wunsch ; with contributions from E. Frahm, G. Frame, K. Kleber, and C. Waerzeggers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Eisenbrauns, , [2019]

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©[2019]

ISBN

1-64602-024-3

1-64602-026-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 720 pages)

Collana

Mesopotamian civilizations

Disciplina

342.35/06

Soggetti

Administrative law (Assyro-Babylonian law)

Administrative law - Iraq - Babylonia - History - To 1500

Babylonia Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-584) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Texts -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I: Analysis -- Chapter One. Introduction -- Chapter Two. The ḫīṭu-Clause and Its Interpretation -- Chapter Three. The ḫīṭu-Documents and the Duties behind Them -- Chapter Four. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Non-Judicial Contexts -- Chapter Five. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Judicial Contexts -- Chapter Six. On History and Theory: Administrative Law and Bureaucracy in Ancient Times -- Chapter Seven. Quasi-Bureaucracy and Administrative Law in the Late Babylonian Period -- Part II: Texts -- Text Editions with Copies -- Text Editions without Copies -- Abstracts of Texts in Forthcoming Publications -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Documents -- Akkadian Words -- Personal Names in Part II -- Geographic Names in Part II -- Divine Names in Part II -- Authors -- Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

"Investigates the governmental administrative systems of the Late Babylonian period, drawing on S. N. Eisenstadt's model of historical bureaucratic empires to show that the governmental systems of this period developed an early form of administrative law"--