Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor,9780788503788

Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor

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Edition: 2nd
ISBN13: 9780788503788
ISBN10: 0788503782
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-08-01
Publisher(s): Scholars Pr
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Summary

The law collections presented in this volume are compilations, varying in legal and literary sophistication, recorded by scribes in the schools and the royal centers of ancient Mesopotamia and Asia Minor from the end of the third millennium through the middle of the first millennium B.C.E. Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite texts, with accompanying English translations, are included. Some of the collections, like the famous Laws of Hammurabi, achieved a wide audience; others, like the Laws about Rented Oxen, were scribal exercises limited to a local school center. All, however, reflected contemporary legal practice in the scribes' recordings of contracts, administrative documents, and court cases and also provide historians with evidence of abstractions of legal rules from specific cases.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword
Chronological Table
Maps
Explanation of Conventions, Signs, and Abbreviations
Weights and Measures
Acknowledgments
Introductionp. 1
Cuneiform Scriptp. 1
The Scribal Curriculump. 2
The Formats and Structures of the Law Collectionsp. 2
The Nature and Function of the Law Collectionsp. 4
About the Translationsp. 7
About the Transliterations and Transcriptionsp. 9
Translationsp. 11
Sumerian
Laws of Ur-Nammap. 13
Laws of Lipit-Ishtarp. 23
Laws of Xp. 36
Laws about Rented Oxenp. 40
Sumerian Laws Exercise Tabletp. 42
Sumerian Laws Handbook of Formsp. 46
Babylonian
Laws of Eshnunnap. 57
Laws of Hammurabip. 71
Neo-Babylonian Lawsp. 143
Assyrian
Middle Assyrian Lawsp. 153
Middle Assyrian Palace Decreesp. 195
Hittite
Hittite Lawsp. 213
Introductionp. 213
Text of the Lawsp. 217
Sources for Hittite Lawsp. 241
Bibliography for Hittite Lawsp. 242
Glossary for Hittite Lawsp. 244
Index for Hittite Lawsp. 246
Sourcesp. 249
Bibliographyp. 255
Glossaryp. 267
Indexesp. 274
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