TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westbrook,Raymond
AU  - Wells,Bruce
AU  - Magdalene,F.Rachel
TI  - Law from the Tigris to the Tiber: The Writings of Raymond Westbrook
SN  - 9781575066370
AV  - KL147 .W47 2009 
U1  - 340.5/394 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - University Park, PA
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Law-Middle East-History
KW  - Law, Ancient
KW  - Jewish law
KW  - Roman law
KW  - Law, Greek
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Volume 1 -- Front Cover -- Front Matter -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part One: The Tradition in the Law Codes -- Chapter 1: Biblical and Cuneiform Law Codes -- Chapter 2: The Nature and Origins of the Twelve Tables -- Chapter 3: Cuneiform Law Codes and the Origins of Legislation -- Chapter 4: What Is the Covenant Code? -- Chapter 5: Codification and Canonization -- Chapter 6: Codex Hammurabi and the Ends of the Earth -- Part Two: The Tradition in Legal Practice -- Chapter 7: Social Justice in the Ancient Near East -- Chapter 8: Slave and Master in Ancient Near Eastern Law -- Chapter 9: Patronage in the Ancient Near East -- Chapter 10: Adultery in Ancient Near Eastern Law -- Chapter 11: Witchcraft and the Law in the Ancient Near East -- Part Three: The Tradition in Greco-Roman Law -- Chapter 12: The Trial Scene in the Iliad -- Chapter 13: Penelope's Dowry and Odysseus' Kingship -- Chapter 14: The Coherence of the Lex Aquilia -- Chapter 15: Restrictions on Alienation of Propertyin Early Roman Law -- Chapter 16: Vitae Necisque Potestas -- Back Matter -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Volume 2 -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction Law as Method -- Part One -- 1 The Edict of Tudhaliya IV -- 2 Hard Times: CT 45 37 -- 3 The Liability of an Innocent Purchaser of Stolen Goods in Early Mesopotamian Law -- 4 The Old Babylonian Term -- 5 The Phrase "His Heart Is Satisfied" in Ancient Near Eastern Legal Sources -- 6 The Case of the Elusive Debtors: CT 4 6a and CT 6 34b -- 7 Social Justice and Creative Jurisprudence in Late Bronze Age Syria -- 8 A Death in the Family: Codex Eshnunna 17-18 Revisited -- 9 The Adoption Laws of Codex Hammurabi -- 10 The Female Slave -- 11 A Sumerian Freedman; 12 The Quality of Freedom in Neo-Babylonian Manumissions -- 13 Judges in the Cuneiform Sources -- 14 Evidentiary Procedure in the Middle Assyrian Laws -- 15 -- 16 The Enforcement of Morals in Mesopotamian Law -- 17 A Matter of Life and Death -- 18 International Law in the Amarna Age -- 19 Babylonian Diplomacy in the Amarna Letters -- Part Two -- 20 Biblical Law -- 21 The Laws of Biblical Israel -- 22 Lex Talionis and Exodus 21:22-25 -- 23 The Deposit Law of Exodus 22:6-12 -- 24 Who Led the Scapegoat in Leviticus 16:21? -- 25 The Prohibition on Restoration of Marriage in Deuteronomy 24:1-4 -- 26 Riddles in Deuteronomic Law -- 27 The Trial of Jeremiah -- 28 Legalistic "Glosses" in Biblical Narratives -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources
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