LAW AND (DIS)ORDER IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST;PROCEEDINGS OF THE 59TH RENCONTRE ASSYRIOLOGIQUE INTERNATIONALE HELD AT GHENT.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: KATRIEN DE GRAEF;ANNE GODDEERIS
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: WINONA LAKE : EISENBRAUNS, 2021.
Series:Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • COVER Front
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of CONtENTS
  • Chapter 1
  • Foreseeing the Future, Classifying the Present: On the Concepts of Law and Order in the Omen Literature
  • Chapter 2: Le vol à l'époque paléo- babylonienne : L'application de la loi à travers la jurisprudence
  • Chapter 3: "Let the Sleeping Dogs Lie" or the Taboo (NÍG.GIG=ikkibu) of the Sacredness of Sleepas Order and Noise at Night ("tapage nocturne") as Disorder in Some Ancient Near Eastern Texts
  • Chapter 4: Lorsque les généraux prêtent serment ... : Quelques remarques sur l'usage du serment deloyauté (depuis la documentation d'Ur III jusqu'àl'époque néo- assyrienne)
  • Chapter 5: Unjust Law: Royal Rhetoric or Social Reality
  • Chapter 6: The Vocabulary of Rebellion in Neo- Assyrian Documents
  • Chapter 7: Legal Fiction in Emar and Ekalte: A Source of Order or Disorder in the Legal System
  • Chapter 8: What the "Man of One Mina" Wanted: Law and Commerce in the Ur III Period
  • Chapter 9: How Ancient Near Eastern Societies Regulated Life in the Community: Crucial Clues from Archaeology
  • Chapter 10: A Variationist Approach to Orthographic and Phonological Peculiarities of the Language in the Laws of Hammurabi
  • Chapter 11: "For Each Runaway Assyrian Fugitive, Let Me Replace Him One Hundred- Fold": Fugitives/ Runaways in the Neo- Assyrian Empire
  • Chapter 12: Perfections of Justice? Measure for Measure Aspirations in Biblical and Cuneiform Sources
  • Chapter 13: Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination
  • Chapter 14: Luminous Oils and Waters of Wisdom: Shedding New Light on Oil Divination
  • (Chapter 15: Mis) Translating Gender: The Scribes Couldn't Have Been Competent, They Didn't Go to Yale
  • Chapter 16: Rétablir l'ordre par la mort dans les textes législatifs du début du IIe millénaire av. J.-C.
  • Chapter 17: To Be Guilty at Nuzi
  • Chapter 18: Fremde Götter-eigene Götter: Zu de nneuassyrischen Götterbeschreibungen
  • Chapter 19: "Not Even Her Own Jewelry": Marital Property in the Middle Assyrian Laws
  • Chapter 20: Disorder and Its Agents: The Akkadian Epic of Anzû Revisited
  • Chapter 21: When the Trial Does Not Work: Pathological Elements in the Judicial Procedure in the Old Babylonian Period
  • Chapter 22: The Ashurbanipal Library Project at the British Museum
  • Chapter 23: The Sea and Monarchic Legitimation in the Ancient Near East
  • Chapter 24: Putting Life in Order: The Architecture of the New Excavations in Kamid el- Loz, Lebanon
  • Chapter 25: Enmity Against Samsu- ditāna