Law from the Tigris to the Tiber : : The Writings of Raymond Westbrook / / Raymond Westbrook; ed. by F. Rachel Magdalene, Bruce Wells.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Westbrook, Raymond,
• HerausgeberIn: Magdalene, F. Rachel,; Wells, Bruce,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1108 p.)

Raymond Westbrook (1946-2009) was acknowledged by many as the world's foremost expert on the legal systems of the ancient Near East and a leading scholar in the study of biblical and classical law. This collection brings together the 44 most important articles that Westbrook published in the 25 years following the completion of his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1982. The first volume, The Shared Tradition, contains 16 articles that lay out Westbrook's theory of a common legal tradition that spanned the ancient world from Mesopotamia to Israel and even to Greece and Rome. The second volume, Cuneiform and Biblical Sources, provides 28 articles that demonstrate Westbrook's unique method of legal analysis that he applied to the numerous texts he worked with as an Assyriologist and biblical scholar, from law codes to contracts to narratives. Each volume contains its own comprehensive bibliography, as well as subject, author, and text indexes. Together, they represent the life's work of one of the most important legal historians of our era.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Introduction: The Idea of a Shared Tradition -- Part One: The Tradition in the Law Codes -- 1. Biblical and Cuneiform Law Codes -- 2. The Nature and Origins of the Twelve Tables -- 3. Cuneiform Law Codes and the Origins of Legislation -- 4. What Is the Covenant Code? -- 5. Codification and Canonization -- 6. Codex Hammurabi and the Ends of the Earth -- Part Two: The Tradition in Legal Practice -- 7. Social Justice in the Ancient Near East -- 8. Slave and Master in Ancient Near Eastern Law -- 9. Patronage in the Ancient Near East -- 10. Adultery in Ancient Near Eastern Law -- 11. Witchcraft and the Law in the Ancient Near East -- Part Three: The Tradition in Greco-Roman Law -- 12. The Trial Scene in the Iliad -- 13. Penelope's Dowry and Odysseus' Kingship -- 14. The Coherence of the Lex Aquilia -- 15. Restrictions on Alienation of Property in Early Roman Law -- 16. Vitae Necisque Potestas -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Authors -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Ancient Sources -- Front Matter 2 -- Contents 2 -- Preface -- About the Editors -- Introduction: Law as Method -- Part One: Cuneiform Sources -- 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 napṭarum -- 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 Ziz2. da / kiššātum -- 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: Biblical Sources -- 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