A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law

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HANDBOOK OF ORIENTAL STUDIES HANDBUCH DER ORIENTALISTIK SECTION ONE THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST EDITED BY H. ALTENMÜLLER · B. HROUD ...

A HISTORY OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN LAW EDITED BY RAYMOND WESTBROOK EDITORIAL BOARD: Gary Beckman, Richard Jasnow, Baruch Levine, ...

This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A history of ancient Near Eastern la ...

v CONTENTS OF VOLUME ONE Preface ........................................................................................ ix Con ...

vi  PART TWO SECOND MILLENNIUM E Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period ............ 255 New Kingdom ........ ...

vii CONTENTS OF VOLUME TWO PART THREE FIRST MILLENNIUM E Third Intermediate Period ......................................... ...

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ix PREFACE For their generous sponsorship of this History, it is my pleasant duty to thank Mr. Melvyn Sykes, attorney at law, th ...

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xi CONTRIBUTORS Gary Beckman Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies University of Michigan Dr. Amalia Catagnoti Dipartime ...

xii  Dr. Sophie Lafont Directeur d’études Section des sciences historiques et philologiques École Pratique des Haute ...

Raymond Westbrook Professor of Ancient Law Johns Hopkins University Bruce Wells Visiting Assistant Professor Gustavus Adolphus C ...

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xv BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS The following are abbreviations of secondary literature that recurs in more than one chapter. S ...

JEA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology JEOL Jaarbericht ex Oriente Lux JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orie ...

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION The ancient languages reproduced in transliteration have been set in italic type, with the exception of ...

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CHRONOLOGICAL CHART In this History, all dates are B.C.E. unless otherwise stated. Period Date Egypt Mesopotamia Anatolia & ...