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  title info:
    title: Gods, kings, and merchants in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
  name:
    name part: Charpin, Dominique
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: be
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 223 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: Gods, kings and merchants, a way of designating religion, politics and the economy: three spheres which in the modern world are quite distinct, even if they do interact constantly. The aim of this book is to show that their boundaries were far more fluid in the Mesopotamian civilisation: gods could act as money lenders, kings could invoke divine will to refuse extradiction, the dead could serve as a reference for how the living should behave, and wealthy merchants could live in residences modelled on those of kings... This civilisation preceded the "Greek miracle" which Jean-Pierre Vernant has quite correctly defined as a "process of change which led to the emergence, as distinct areas, of the blueprints for the economy, politics, law, art, science, ethics, and philosophy". In a direct continuation of his earlier book published in 2010, 'Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia', D. Charpin here examines in greater depth the situation which existed in Mesopotamia in the first half of the second millennium BC, using texts discovered in numerous archives throughout the entire Near East, especially those found at Mari eighty years ago.
  note: Dominique Charpin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-iq---
  subject:
    geographic: Babylonia
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Babylonia
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Law
    geographic: Iraq
    geographic: Babylonia
  subject:
    geographic: Babylonië
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
  subject:
    topic: Law
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
    geographic: Babylonia
  classification: DS73.25 .C43 2015
  classification: 939.4-956
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Publications de l'Institut du Proche-Orient ancien du Collège de France ; 2
  identifier: 9789042932753
  identifier: 9042932759
  record info:
    record content source: ERASA
    record creation date: 150625
    record change date: 20151105130147.0
    record identifier: in00003596969
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng