Law Collections from Mesopotamia and Asia Minor, Second Edition

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The law collections presented on this volume are compilations, varying in legal and literary sophistication, recorded by scribes within the schools and the royal centers of ancient Mesopotamian and Asia Minor from the end of the third millennium in the course of the middle of the first millennium B.C.E. Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite texts, with accompanying English translations, are included. One of the vital collections, like the famous Laws of Hammurabi, achieved a wide audience; others, like the Laws about Rented Oxen, were scribal exercises limited to a local school center. All, alternatively, reflected up to date legal practice within the scribes’ recordings of contracts, administrative documents, and court cases and in addition provide historians with evidence of abstractions of legal rules from specific cases. Along with the texts and translations, the volume features a list of sources, bibliography, glossary, and a large number of indexes.

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