A History of Ancient Near Eastern Law
it more like seduction, which falls into the category of minor harm (see below). 8.6.2.5 Perjury and Slander^65 False accusation ...
Exod. 22:3), and the burglar killed while breaking in at night (LE 12–13; Exod. 22:2–3). 8.6.3 Minor Harm In the category of min ...
9.1 The International System 9.1.1 International law was not separate from internal law, as it is today. The paradigmatic form o ...
9.1.3 The international system was complicated by the structure of empires, which tended to consist of a core state surrounded b ...
gods, in the same way as the seals of human witnesses were impressed on contracts. 9.2.4 Multilateral conventions are not attest ...
9.3 Customary Law 9.3.1 Diplomacy was conducted by envoys rather than by resi- dential ambassadors. Envoys enjoyed immunity in t ...
T L A N E L I have described the law of the ancient Near East as lacking cer- tain features of mode ...
... he who takes no perquisite, who takes up the cause of the weak, Is pleasing to Shamash, who lengthens his life. The judiciou ...
Finkelstein, J. “Ammi-ßaduqa’s Edict and the Babylonian ‘Law Codes,’” JCS 15 (1961) 91–104. ——. The Ox That Gored. Transactions ...
Renger, J. “Institutional, Communal, and Individual Ownership or Possession of Arable Land in Ancient Mesopotamia from the End o ...
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93 EGYPT OLD KINGDOM AND FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD Richard Jasnow S L Explicit sources for law from the Old Kingdom ...
1.1 Royal Edicts The corpus of royal decrees of a legal character^4 has been divided into six categories:^5 decrees concerning a ...
“overseer of prophets,” the king forbids the removal of any prophet or serf for corvée or construction work in the nome (adminis ...
1.2 Administrative Orders and Documents The Abu Sir papyri, which contain the records of the mortuary temple of Nerferikara (Fif ...
1.4 Miscellaneous Non-legal Sources 1.4.1 Old Kingdom titles, often honorific, attest to the complexity of the court and society ...
98 to the late Old Kingdom, although only first extant on Middle Kingdom papyri.^40 The instruction is placed in the mouth ...
ered the pharaoh essentially human or divine; the office displays both aspects.^47 In any case, the image of the pharaoh effecti ...
100 2.1.3 The Administration The Old Kingdom administration of government essentially consisted of central administration, ...
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