Fault, Responsibility, and Administrative Law in Late Babylonian Legal Texts / / F. Rachel Magdalene, Cornelia Wunsch, Bruce Wells.
This book presents a reassessment of the governmental systems of the Late Babylonian period-specifically those of the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian empires-and provides evidence demonstrating that these are among the first to have developed an early form of administrative law.The present study re...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mesopotamian Civilizations ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (744 p.) :; 51 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Texts
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Part I: Analysis
- Chapter One. Introduction
- Chapter Two. The ḫīṭu-Clause and Its Interpretation
- Chapter Three. The ḫīṭu-Documents and the Duties behind Them
- Chapter Four. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Non-Judicial Contexts
- Chapter Five. The ḫīṭu-Documents from Judicial Contexts
- Chapter Six. On History and Theory: Administrative Law and Bureaucracy in Ancient Times
- Chapter Seven. Quasi-Bureaucracy and Administrative Law in the Late Babylonian Period
- Part II: Texts
- Text Editions with Copies
- Text Editions without Copies
- Abstracts of Texts in Forthcoming Publications
- Bibliography
- Indexes
- Documents
- Akkadian Words
- Personal Names in Part II
- Geographic Names in Part II
- Divine Names in Part II
- Authors
- Subjects