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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia

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Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is regarded as to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, in addition to the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was once only a part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts.

Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to nowadays. As legal codes all the way through the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were ready to stabilize their keep an eye on over distant realms and impose a common language—which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by magistrates, judges, and scribes that at last became the vast empires of history books. Sure to draw any reader with an interest in the ancient Near East, in addition to rhetoric, legal history, and classical studies, this book is an innovative account of the intertwined histories of law and language.


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