Microsoft Word - Revised dissertation2.docx

is an exhaustive list of all variant readings between any two first millennium sources for
the Laws of Hammurabi that overlap in content, regardless of the amount of overlapping
text preserved. Although every variant is given in the list, the discussion of the variants
will refer in the main only to those texts preserving at least 50 SU in parallel listed in the
table. Variant readings in the parallel sources that are less fully preserved may be referred
to periodically, but will not be made to bear any of the statistical argument put forward
regarding types and frequencies of variants.