records. See also Trial records
Egypt
Elephantine, 864
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 111
Mesopotamia
Neo-Babylonian Period, 914
Old Assyrian Period, 432–433
scribes’ role. See Scribes
Ugarit, 721–722
verdicts. See Verdicts
vizier as judicial power. See Viziers
Covenant, Book of. See Hebrew Bible
Craftsmen and artisans
Egypt Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 281
Hittite Kingdom, 624, 633, 634
oblates as
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 927
slaves as
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 930
Credit. See Debt; Loans
Creditors. See Debt
collection. See Self-help
Crime and delict, 70–82. See also
specific crimes (e.g., Homicide,
Theft, Rape, etc.)
Alalakh IV, 715–716
Canaan, 742–743
classification of wrongs, 75–82
Ebla, 236–237
Egypt
Demotic Law, 853–854
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 281–282
New Kingdom, 310, 342–346
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 106, 130–131
Third Intermediate Period, 810–813
Emar, 687–688
Erfolgshaftung, 73
evolution of criminal law, 71–72
Hittite Kingdom, 643–653
Israel, 1027–1042
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 175–176
Middle Assyrian Period, 528,
553–560
Middle Babylonian Period, 515
Neo-Assyrian Period, 905–906Neo-Babylonian Period, 961–967
Neo-Sumerian Period, 219–221
Nuzi, 571, 611–614
Old Assyrian Period, 476–477
Old Babylonian Period, 414–424
offenses against the gods. See
Offenses against the gods
offenses against the king. See
Offenses against the king
third millennium treaties, 248
Ugarit, 720, 733–734
Crime of passion
Mesopotamia Middle Assyrian
Period, 559
Crops from leased lands. See
Agricultural lease; Hire, subheading:
land rental
Cuneiform writing, 23
Alalakh VII, 693
Ebla, 227
first millennium, 1047, 1050
Hittite, 620
Late Bronze Age, 753, 765
law codes, 9
Mesopotamia, 5
Neo-Babylonian/Persian period, 5,
911–912
Old Babylonian period, 5
scribes and, 10, 18
Syria and Anatolia, 5
trial records, 8
Ugarit, 719, 753
Curses. See also Oaths
Deuteronomic curses, 976
Egypt
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 282
New Kingdom, 346–347
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 132
Third Intermediate Period, 813
Israel, 1040–1041
Customary international law, 86
first millennium, 1059–1063
second millennium
Late Bronze Age, 765–769
Middle Bronze Age, 750–751
third millennium, 249–250Dakhla Stela, 782, 787, 789, 801, 804
Damage to property, 82
Hittite Kingdom, 650
Israel, 1038–1040 1081
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