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Author Holtz, Shalom E., author

Title Neo-Babylonian trial records / by Shalom E. Holtz
Published Atlanta : Society of Biblical Literature, 2014
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Description 1 online resource
Series Writings from the ancient world society of biblical literature number 35
Writings from the ancient world ; no. 35.
Contents Series Editor Foreword; Acknowledgments; Conventions and Abbreviations; Remarks on the Transcriptions and Translations; Chronology of Neo-Babylonian and Achaemenid Kings (605-424 BCE); Introduction; 1. Preliminaries to Trials; 2. Completed Trials; 3. Four Trial Dossiers; Normalized Texts; Bibliography; Indices
Summary "The written records of legal proceedings make fascinating reading regardless of the medium on which they are inscribed. Such is certainly true of these written remains from sixth-century B.C.E. Mesopotamia, which afford a close-up, often dramatic, view of ancient courtroom encounters and shed light on facets of that society's legal culture and daily life. An explanatory essay precedes each of the fifty texts transliterated and translated in this volume. In addition, the book offers an introduction to Neo-Babylonian social history, archival records, and legal materials. Beyond its interest to scholars interested in the history of law, it can also be used as a classroom text in advanced Akkadian."--Back cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
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Subject Law, Assyro-Babylonian -- Sources
Civil procedure (Assyro-Babylonian law) -- Sources
Trials -- Iraq -- Babylonia -- Sources
Court records -- Iraq -- Babylonia
LAW -- Civil Procedure.
LAW -- Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- History & Culture.
Civil procedure (Assyro-Babylonian law)
Court records
Law, Assyro-Babylonian
Trials
Rechtsprechung
Rechtsquelle
Middle East -- Babylonia
Mesopotamien
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Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781589839458
1589839455