Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 531–532,
533, 535
Neo-Assyrian Period, 893
Old Assyrian Period, 449,
464–465, 470
Ugarit, 725, 732
Refuge, cities of
Israel, 1032
Refugees from Assyria
first millennium, 1063
Registry of land sales
Egypt Third Intermediate Period, 787
Emar, 657
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 547
Release of slaves. See Manumission;
Slavery, subheading: termination of
Religious and professional associations
Egypt Demotic Law, 854–855
expulsion from
Egypt Demotic Law, 854
Religious writings. See also Hebrew
Bible
Egypt Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 257
Remarriage. See also Marriage,
subheading: by widows
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 275
New Kingdom, 326
Third Intermediate Period, 800
Emar, 671
Israel, 1010–1011
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 537
Neo-Babylonian Period, 935, 939
Old Assyrian Period, 455
Old Babylonian Period, 389, 417
Remediation
Israel, 1023
Remission of debts. See Debt relief
Rental. See Hire
Repayments. See Payments
Repossession. See Self-help
Res judicata, 32
Alalakh VII, 697–698
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 493
Old Babylonian Period, 371–372
Resident aliens, 37, 42
crimes committed against,
responsibility for, 86Israel, 1002, 1017
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 377
Ugarit, 86, 723
Restitution
Hittite Kingdom, 652, 768
Israel, 1016–1017
Mesopotamia
Middle Babylonian Period, 492, 517
Old Babylonian Period, 371, 372
Restraining orders
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 371
Revenge, 71, 72, 74, 78, 79. See also
Blood avenger
Mesopotamia Middle Babylonian
Period, 516
Rib-Hadda. See Canaan
Rights of way. See Servitudes
Rituals
associated with sales transactions
Alalakh VII, 700
Mesopotamia Early Dynastic and
Sargonic Periods, 168–170
Ebla, 232
Israel, 976, 977, 988, 990, 1012
“Lifting of the Gods”
Mesopotamia Nuzi, 573–575
purification rituals, 76
River ordeal, 34. See also Ordeal
Hittite Kingdom, 631
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 155
Middle Assyrian Period, 529
Middle Babylonian Period, 492,
494, 495–496, 498–499
Neo-Assyrian Period, 891
Neo-Sumerian Period, 196–197
Nuzi, 575
Old Assyrian Period, 446, 477
Robbery. See Theft and related offenses
from tombs. See Tombs, subheading:
violations of
Roman period
rule of Egypt, 820
Royal butlers
Egypt
New Kingdom, 301
Royal courts
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 918–919
Royal decrees. See Edicts
Royal family 1125
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