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1 online resource |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental studies. Section one, The Near and Middle East, 0169-9423 ; v. 72 = Handbuch der Orientalistik |
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 72. Bd.
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| Contents |
Introduction : The Character of Ancient Near Eastern Law / Raymond Westbrook -- Part 1. Third millennium -- Egypt : Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period / Richard Jasnow -- Mesopotamia : Early Dynastic and Sargonic Periods / Claus Wilcke -- Neo-Sumerian Period (Ur III) / Bertrand Lafont, Raymond Westbrook -- Anatolia and the Levant : Ebla / Amalia Catagnoti -- International Law : International Law in the Third Millennium / Jerrold Cooper |
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Part 2. Second millennium -- Egypt : Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period ; New Kingdom / Richard Jasnow -- Mesopotamia : Old Babylonian Period / Raymond Westbrook -- Old Assyrian Period / Klaas Veenhof -- Middle Babylonian Period / Kathryn Slanski -- Middle Assyrian Period / Sophie Lafont -- Nuzi / Carlo Zaccagnini -- Anatolia and the Levant : The Hittite Kingdom / Richard Haase -- Emar and Vicinity / Raymond Westbrook -- Alalakh ; Ugarit ; Canaan / Ignacio Marquez Rowe -- International Law : International Law in the Second Millennium : Middle Bronze Age / Jesper Eidem -- International Law in the Second Millennium : Late Bronze Age / Gary Beckman |
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Part 3 : First Millennium -- Egypt : Third Intermediate Period / Richard Jasnow -- Demotic Law / Joseph Manning -- Elephantine / Bezalel Porten -- Mesopotamia : Neo-Assyrian Period / Karen Radner -- Neo-Babylonian Period / Joachim Oelsner, Bruce Wells, Cornelia Wunsch -- Anatolia and the Levant : Israel / Tikva Frymer-Kenski -- International Law : International Law in the First Millennium / Simo Parpola |
| Summary |
The history of law can only begin after the written record of it commences; in the Middle East, that is a few centuries after the advent of writing itself in the fourth millennium BCE. That law is the oldest recorded, and is the foundation of the two great modern Western systems, the Common Law and the Civil Law. In sections covering the next three |
| Notes |
At head of title on cover: HdO |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Law -- Middle East -- History
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Law, Ancient.
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LAW -- Customary.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative.
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Law
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Law, Ancient
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Middle East
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Westbrook, Raymond
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Beckman, Gary M
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| ISBN |
1417502223 |
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9781417502226 |
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