Essential prescriptions
Israel, 975–976
Estate administration. See also
Inheritance
undivided control of family head
Egypt New Kingdom, 324
Ethnicity
Egypt
Demotic Law, 832, 833
Elephantine, 871
Third Intermediate Period, 795
Emar, 668
Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian Period, 886
Eunuchs
Mesopotamia Neo-Assyrian Period,
889, 891, 893–894
Eviction
Egypt Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 276
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 547
Neo-Babylonian Period, 946
Evidence, 32
“approaching God”
Israel, 996–997
burden of proof. See Burden of
proof
documentary evidence. See
Documentary evidence
Egypt
Elephantine, 869–870
Middle Kingdom and Second
Intermediate Period, 268–269
New Kingdom, 305, 311–315
Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 109, 110–112
Third Intermediate Period, 794–795
Emar, 662–663
Hittite Kingdom, 631
Israel, 995–996
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 153
Middle Assyrian Period, 528–530
Middle Babylonian Period, 492,
494–496
Neo-Assyrian Period, 891–892
Neo-Babylonian Period, 923–925
Neo-Sumerian Period, 194, 195–197
Nuzi, 572–573
Old Assyrian Period, 443–446
Old Babylonian Period, 373–376
oaths as. See Oaths as evidence
physical evidence. See Physical evidenceriver ordeal. See River ordeal
standing before God
Israel, 997
supra-rational methods, 32. See also
Oracles; Ordeal
wife’s potion trial for adultery
Israel, 997
witnesses. See Witnesses
Examination of parties in litigation
Canaan, 740
Egypt
Demotic Law, 831
New Kingdom, 309
Mesopotamia
Middle Assyrian Period, 527
Middle Babylonian Period, 492
Neo-Babylonian Period, 922
Old Assyrian Period, 433, 444
Old Babylonian Period, 370
Exchange. See also Payment in kind
Alalakh VII, 700–701
Egypt Demotic Law, 849
Emar, 682
Mesopotamia
Early Dynastic and Sargonic
Periods, 172
Neo-Assyrian Period, 902
Neo-Babylonian Period, 948
Nuzi, 567, 606–607
Ugarit, 732–733
Execution. See Death penalty
Execution of judgment
Hittite Kingdom, 652
Mesopotamia Old Babylonian
Period, 372
Exemption decrees
Egypt Old Kingdom, 94–95, 99,
101, 102, 103, 106, 113, 114
Ugarit, 722
Exile. See Banishment
Exodus, Book of. See Hebrew Bible
Expert witnesses
Mesopotamia Neo-Babylonian
Period, 924
Extradition, 86
Alalakh IV, 715
Ebla, 236, 237
Ezra, Book of. See Hebrew BibleFalse accusations. See also Perjury
Egypt Old Kingdom and First
Intermediate Period, 130
Israel, 995–996, 1039
Mesopotamia 1091
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