Flight and freedom in the ancient Near East / / Daniel C. Snell.
Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examin...
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Snell, Daniel C., author. Flight and freedom in the ancient Near East / Daniel C. Snell. Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2001] ©2001 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource rdacarrier Culture and history of the ancient Near East Freedom as a value is older than Greece, as evidence from the Ancient Near East shows us through this book. Snell first looks at words for freedom in the Ancient Near East. Then he examines archival texts to see how runaways expressed their interest in freedom in Mesopotamian history. He next examines what elites said about flight and freedom in edicts, legal collections, and treaties. He devotes a chapter to flight in literature and story. He studies freedom in Israel by looking at Biblical terminology and then practice in narratives and legal collections. In a final chapter Snell traces the descent of ideas about freedom among Jews, Greeks and Christians, and Muslims, concluding that the devotion to freedom may be nearly a human universal. Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Liberty History. 90-04-12010-6 Culture and history of the ancient Near East ; 8. |
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